After poor South Carolina finish, Bush drops out

When it comes to Jeb Bush and Donald Trump, the media was proved dead wrong on two counts Saturday when Trump won the South Carolina presidential primary and a disgraced Bush had to drop out after another dismal showing. Nobody up on the crow’s nest saw this coming. Not long ago, it was supposed to be the other way around. Primogeniture and polls once favored Bush’s position. But for the $100 million candidate, who turned out to be a real dull “room emptier,” as my father put it, adding the slogan Jeb! became a more dubious Jeb? His defiant reliance on his family to fight his battles, whether or not they were actually in the room, got tiresome, especially the peevish line, “My brother kept us safe.” Columnist Kathleen Parker urged him not to be quite so familial – “my brother, my father, my mother” – but he could not let go of his identity as a Bush/ Jamie Stiehm , U.S. News & World Report. More here .

Question: Why did Jeb Bush fail to get untracked, despite the big money and family ties behind him?