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Tonight’s GOP debate, which will feature a winnowed field of six candidates, begins at 9PM Eastern from South Carolina. Moderators are Face the Nation anchor John Dickerson, CBS News reporter Major Garrett, and Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal. CBS is live-streaming the debate here and a bootleg feed is posted below. Watch along with us and weigh in. …

The Telegraph reports: Jeb Bush called Donald Trump a “loser, liar and a whiner” on the eve of a key vote in the race for the Republican nomination. Mr Bush who is lagging in polls behind the billionaire said he would not allow “someone try to hijack a party that I believe will allow people to rise up again”. Mr …

Launching today is my new twice-monthly politics column for Britain’s Pride Life, a quarterly LGBT rights and lifestyle magazine. In today’s first column I rate four leading GOP presidential candidates based on their potential threat to LGBT civil equality. While my assessments may seem a bit rudimentary to regular readers of this here website thingy, I thought it might be …

One day after releasing a campaign ad starring his brother, Jeb Bush has issued a 30-second spot in which his mother takes a swipe at Donald Trump. The ad was cut from a CBS interview done yesterday. Politico recaps: Former first lady Barbara Bush has some advice for Jeb Bush ahead of Saturday’s Republican debate: Man up. “He’s almost too …

Via Business Insider: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s (R) major financial backers are finally rolling out an advertisement with perhaps the governor’s most prominent endorser. The Bush-allied super PAC, Right to Rise USA, released an advertisement Thursday that starred former President George W. Bush. As images of waving flags and fighter jets flashed across the screen, the former president touted …

Fort Lauderdale-based Silver Airways will surely get a lot of attention for the promotion they launched today. They will also surely give away zero flights. Of course, this is really about building their email list. They write: The Iowa Caucus is on Feb 1st, and if you haven’t heard, two candidates running for President are from Florida! Silver wants to …

Via Business Insider: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s (R) campaign released a video on Wednesday showing the apparently apocalyptic world in which Donald Trump is the Republican presidential nominee. Bush’s video flashes forward to November 8, 2016, and features newscasts declaring that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has won the presidential race. “DONALD TRUMP CONCEDES DEFEAT WITH TWITTER POST,” …

It’s Jeb’s turn to pander to the evangelicals in a new campaign ad. And with an editorial in the wingnut press. From the National Review: People of faith are being asked to compromise their beliefs on the issue of marriage. While people of good will have different opinions on same-sex marriage, in a nation as large and diverse as ours, …

Moments ago, Sen. Lindsey Graham appeared at a South Carolina press conference to endorse “the next president of the United States” Jeb Bush. Graham’s statement included jabs at Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies. Bush took the stage afterwards, thanking the “extraordinary” Graham and vowing to continue to seek out his advice.

To the tune of Nancy Sinatra’s These Boots Are Made For Walkin’, Jeb Bush’s latest attack ad mocks Marco Rubio’s policy flip-flops and his high-heeled boots that the media has strangely obsessed over in recent days. Ha, ha – Marco is SHORTER than Jeb!, you guys! Listen for the dig at Rubio’s age, too.

Talk about a fucking desperation pander to Teabagistan. The Washington Post reports: Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush is calling for an end to the federal food stamp program as part of a proposed revamp of the nation’s welfare system. Bush would end the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, generally known as food stamps, and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families …

Jeb! is in the red. The Hill reports: For the first time since he launched his presidential bid, Jeb Bush’s net favorability among Republicans is negative, according to a new Gallup survey released on Friday. Once considered the GOP’s front-runner, the former Florida governor’s plus-27 favorability rating in mid-July has now declined to a minus-1 less than a month before …

Jeb Bush today rushed out a pro-gun ad just one day after he was busted for “mistakenly” claiming to have received an award from the NRA and a rifle from Charleton “Moses” Heston. CNN reports: Jeb Bush loves talking about how Moses once gave him a gun. A staunch supporter of Second Amendment rights, Bush frequently tells the story of …

Well, it wouldn’t be boring. The Hill reports: Jeb Bush on Monday challenged Republican front-runner Donald Trump to a one-on-one debate. Speaking to a gathering at the Forum Club in Palm Beach, Fla., Bush was asked by the moderator what he would say to Trump if he were to walk in the room at that moment. “Donald, I’ll take you …

Via Mother Jones: Perfect last-minute Christmas present for the low-energy person in your life who needs an extra exclamation point: Jeb! Not the candidate, just his name—upbeat punctuation mark and all. The word has apparently lost its appeal. Even to the candidate. The US Patent and Trademark Office accepted the submission and requested additional information before it would grant the …

Jeb Bush says that if given access to a time machine, he would definitely kill Hitler as a baby. Last night Stephen Colbert had some fun with that, mostly at the expense of Ben Carson. Watch below.

The Hill reports: Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign is slamming Jeb Bush for making “phony attacks” on the Florida senator. In a new online advertisement released on Tuesday, the GOP presidential candidate notes Bush’s past praise for Rubio, including his statement that he could be a good president. “What Marco has, I think, is something the Republican Party needs to have, …

Gone is the “Jeb!” ABC News reports: Jeb Bush launches his “Jeb Can Fix It” tour today. The embattled GOP presidential candidate is beginning the tour in his home state of Florida, traversing the state with three events in three different cities. He’ll begin with remarks in Tampa, head to an event near Orlando and end with a town hall …

As you can see by the above tweets by French Ambassador Gerard Araud, the French are not very happy about the snide comment Jeb Bush directed at Marco Rubio last night when he said, “I mean, literally, the Senate — what is it, like a French work week? You get, like, three days where you have to show up?” Those …

Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Today, Jeb Bush joined televangelist Pat Robertson for an ostensibly nonpartisan presidential forum, where the former Florida governor received a warm introduction from Religious Right legal activist Jay Sekulow, whose son just so happens to work for Bush. Robertson himself has put Bush at the top of his 2016 “dream ticket.”Towards the end …