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“The Yahoo! of GOP candidates”: Twitter relentlessly mocks Jeb Bush’s campaign logo

Jeb's excited logo is hardly a new one, but it took Twitter by storm on Sunday

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(Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)
(Jeff Malet, maletphoto.com)

Like most men who run for president using an acronym as a first name, Jeb Bush has decided to accentuate his chosen first name with an exclamation point, announcing the launch of his campaign with the debut of his (old) logo:

Got that? It’s Jeb! Not Jeb? Not Jeb Bush. Not John Ellis Bush, his birth name, but Jeb! riding into the year 2016.

The former Florida governor is expected to formally announce his run today but as Buzzfeed’s Andrew Kaczynski pointed out, Jeb’s been excited for quite some time:

Needless to say, Twitter had some fun with Bush’s use of punctuation:

 

 

 

 

 

Some Twitter users offered to help Bush with his logo.

 

By Sophia Tesfaye

Sophia Tesfaye is a senior writer (and former senior politics editor) for Salon. She resides in Washington, D.C.
You can find her on Twitter at @SophiaTesfaye.


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