This is really dismal – if you have to ASK for applause for yourself, what does that say both you and your campaign?

“My pledge to you, I will be a commander in chief that will have the back of the military,” Bush told the crowd. “I won’t trash talk, I won’t be a divider-in-chief or an agitator-in-chief. I won’t be out there blowharding, talking a big game without backing it up.”  “I think the next president needs to be a lot quieter but send a signal that we’re prepared to act in the national security interest of this country,” he added. “To get back in the business of creating a more peaceful world.”

After that line, Bush paused, seemingly waiting for the crowd to applaud and cheer him — but they didn’t.

“Please clap,” Bush had to tell the crowd, sounding defeated.

Oy vay!  That’s pitiful.  I know that politicians have to be able to take rejection almost as much as actors, used car salesman and telemarketers, but that is bad.  But to actually ask for applause to make you feel better about yourself?

UPDATE: video after the jump

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Feel the Bern !

Ah, the good old days. Every campaign starts out fresh and clean. You meet Mom and Pop, kiss a few babies, and choke down another croissant smeared with something.

Then there are the house parties every candidate loves to attend. The crowds pour out of someone’s front porch or living room just like the blue shirted gut on a certain infamous campaign helper pours out of his saggy black suit (above). Yea, I’m talking about a “Bernie for something” house party in Manchester. One of about three he had in NH since starting his wild campaign.

This house party featured our old pal Carl Robert Gibson who came to NH from Kentucky and Wisconsin and Connecticut, Texas, California, Illinois, and Mississippi, to help Bernie Sanders become President of the New United States of Crazy Talk.

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for spilling the beans.  So, it doesn’t matter what the Republican primaries churn out – it will be a brokered (e.g., “smoke filled back room of Party hacks”):

N.H. Republican Power Broker Says NO Trump, NO Cruz – Promises Brokered Convention

So says former New Hampshire Republican governor Judd Gregg, a longtime and highly influential Republican power broker in the Granite State who during an interview with Neil Cavuto on the Fox Business network this morning declared all current polling in New Hampshire to be null and void, and the likelihood of anti-establishment GOP front-runners Donald Trump or Ted Cruz winning New Hampshire as unlikely.

Well, that will be of matter of opinion and most of them not your’s.  Be that as it may, though, it’s that last part about the convention that should be most concerning – a very good application of the Progressive “tell” – ‘we know what is best for you’.  Which generally means “better for us, who cares about you and what you think”.

Then he dropped a bombshell that clearly had Fox Business host Neil Cavuto a bit stunned.

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Over at WeekendPundit, Chan quoted moi (but not my extreme liking for their breakfast burritos – darn!):

This is a lesson any mature business has to relearn again and again if it wants to stay in business.

This is what happens when McDonald’s listens to its customers – success.

Some corporations get so big that they believe they can dictate to their customers what to buy. But examples abound that disprove that notion, some of which meant the bankruptcy and dissolution of many companies who ignored the old axiom “The customer’s always right.”

That one extra step?

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A warrant article question survived the deliberative process in the town of Sandown, New Hampshire this past Saturday. To paraphrase, “Do the Sandown voters want to begin the process of getting out from under the tyrannical boot of the Earl of Metzler to form a separate school district?”

Or maybe you’d prefer this version.

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