Anyone following the candidacy of Jeb Bush knows the poor little guy’s been having a rough go of it. First he was considered a likely frontrunner, then he dropped to third place, then to fifth, and by now it wouldn’t be surprising if a new poll put him somewhere between the Newsboys and a Blu-ray of God’s Not Dead. As a result, the candidate has been resorting to a series of increasingly desperate-looking moves in an effort to inject some excitement into his campaign. And a couple of days ago, the presidential hopeful let loose the dogs of war, also known as giving out an email address he himself was supposedly answering:
The internet quickly moved to do what it does best: Embrace the democratic process, and turn this into an opportunity to commune on the subjects that have nothing to do with the candidate’s policies. As New York Magazine reports, some media folks moved quickly to see if the email request would actually work—specifically, Weird Twitter: