donald trump, one, he was more prepared to keep our nation safe, and two he stood up to donald trump, beat donald trump, and therefore proved to everyone that he s the guy to take on hillary clinton. look, there are only four candidates in this race that have the resources to take it to the finish line. and that s ted cruz, marco rubio, jeb bush, and donald trump if he decides to spend his own money. rick santorum in 2012 won iowa. he got nowhere because he didn t have an organization of resources. jeb is ready to take on the field. there are three lanes here. donald trump in one lane, ted cruz in another, marco tried to get in ted cruz s lane. that debacle last night was bad for both. then the most crowded lane, jeb needs to win that one, that s the homestretch. but he has gotten a whole lot better in the debates but he doesn t seem to be getting traction where it counts.
i noticed just this week, jeb said, maybe it was yesterday, he said i m the best bet. and one of the things that both 41 and 43 had had in common was the conviction they were the better man, they were the best man for the job. and i think that is just the case that is despite the reticence that is also part of the family, jeb needs to make that clearer. you know, i want to go to barbara bush, because the most fascinating grace notes in the book are always when you re quoting from her diary. and that is what we all do probably too much with the bush family. but when i read your book and read some of her diary entries and then thought about what she said on the today show a few more years back, no more bushes, no more clintons, it is barbara bush that seems to be exhausted from the idea that you get the
the outsider candidates or the fringe candidates that some people have called them. this is very hard work, as you know, to get delegates on to these slates. and it requires a lot of organizational muster, it requires money. they know the rules. these candidates know the rules. they know that they have to play the long game and this is the way they need to do it. they re not just flashes in the pan. we re seeing that over and over again. sarah, i want to go back to the debate tonight. you brought up the fact that jeb needs to have a good night. does going after rubirubio, sho that be part of his plan, or given all the news that s out there today, should that be something they ought to skip tonight? well, i think he needs to either pick a he needs to pick a strategy. he either needs to go after rubio and go after him aggressively and be consistent about it or say, i m not going to engage in that type of discussion with marco and nod. so to me it matters less whether he does or doe
you start figuring out what else to do. jeb went after rubio, it didn t work for him. maybe everyone who is not donald trump starts to focus on something else, hillary clinton is a great place to start. at this point dana, i don t think that jeb needs to hit back on any of them. focus on his campaign, trying to move forward. donald trump is taking it to carson, rubio. the only one he s not saying anything about is cruz, come to think of it. it will come. wait a couple days. but what krauthammer said is true. if you look at hillary clinton s biggest weakness, it s trustworthiness. of the entire candidate field, she s second to last on trustworthiness. how did that happen, over the course of six months, hillary clinton was absolutely pounded by not just republicans, but different groups and also because of her own problems with the emails and the benghazi testimony, which proved that she
which is the worst thing in the world. jeb bush tells kids he would be depressed when his dad said he was disappointed. evidently there is a thin line between a great dad and a verbally abusive dad. that s not what jeb was saying. he said his dad was so great he didn t want to disappoint him. he was with a kid and he knows what he is doing. he set that. ben, i m with you. who won t be depressed with a dad like hw. world war 2 and i would be disappointed to. jeb needs to know his audience. you shouldn t talk about things like spiraling depression.