Is there a silver lining to the Republican "outsiders" phenomena?

By Rob Janicki

The single greatest resulting benefit of the outsiders in the Republican presidential primary might well be the sinking of what was once thought to be the titanic campaign of Jeb Bush.  These days the Jeb Bush campaign is more closely resembling the sinking of the RMS Titanic, much to the satisfaction of many conservatives.

I, for one, have thought the Bush brand name was worn out and needed to be retired.  No more family dynasties in American politics.  Putting aside, for the moment, my many political differences with Jeb on immigration/amnesty, Common core, etc., Donald Trump may have been right.   

Something about Jeb just never set right with me in his visual presentation before audiences.  His style may have played well in the past in Florida retirement centers, but he just didn't seem to have the energy and the natural enthusiasm to get me excited about anything.  Watching Jeb campaigning was like sitting in a required college course lecture in sociology taught by a very boring professor that no one wanted to sit and listen to, but for the fact it was required. 

Jeb is at a critical juncture in his campaign.  Like Hillary and the Democrat Party, Jeb was the presumptive Republican Party candidate.  After all, Jeb had the Bush brand name and early on in the campaign cycle, raised an astonishing $100 million dollar political war chest that probably superseded the cumulative funding of the remaining field of Republican candidates.

How times have changed.  Jeb has never really gotten a foothold in the polls and he is currently mired in the lower end of the top 50% at around 9%.  This mediocre performance has lead wealthy contributors to rethink their continued support and funding of Jeb's campaign, especially in light of the folding of the once popular campaign of Scott Walker.  Will this specter of Walker's failure be deja vu all over again for Jeb?

They say it's darkest before the dawn.  In Jeb's case it may be the last ray of light he see's in this campaign cycle.  The problem is that Jeb has enough money to stay in the campaign through the primaries, if his ego overwhelms his good sense and the writing on the wall from voters who want anyone but Jeb.  Perhaps another falling rock in the Republican presidential campaign, in the form of Donald Trump, has saved America from another Bush.  Only time will tell.