MSNBC’s Morning Joe Pans ‘Stunningly Inarticulate’ Jeb Bush

The Tuesday panel of MSNBC’s Morning Joe gave Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush low marks for his performance at Monday night’s town hall discussion.

New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters said Bush was “stunningly inarticulate,” and read out one particularly wooden answer Bush gave. “Uh, my dad is quite possibly the most perfect man alive, so it’s very hard of me to be critical of him. In fact, I got a t-shirt that says, uh, at the Jeb swag store that says, I’m the uh, I’m the, uh, ‘My dad’s the greatest man alive. If you don’t like it, I’ll take you outside.’”

Host Joe Scarborough compared it to the criticism Mitt Romney received for not having an answer to Romneycare in 2012, even though everyone knew the question would come up. “We understand he loves his dad, we all love our dads,” he said. “We understand he loves his brother, we all love our brother. If you are running for President of the United States, you know this is a question that will keep coming up.”

“He was not sharp all night,” agreed Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin. “He seemed a little uncomfortable in the format. I think for those who believe that Jeb Bush is likely to be the eventual nominee, performances like that, if he shows up like that on Thursday, I think it will set him back in a big way.”

“He was not sharp or commanding,” he repeated. “As Jeremy said, I don’t think most of the others were sharp or commanding either… and you’re going up against Trump, who is always sharp and commanding.”

Watch, via MSNBC.

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