Run Jeb, Run!
Jeb’s big brother is back and recovering nicely.
George W. Bush is 2010’s “comeback kid.”
His book Decision Points has been perched at #1 on the New York Times and Amazon best seller lists for close to a month, and his popularity is on the rise.
According to a recent Gallup poll, our 43rd president had a higher job approval rating than President Obama, 47% vs. 46%.
The prevailing opinion is the longer President Obama is in office the more the job seems to overwhelm him – and George W. Bush gains more respect.
Nevertheless, the Bush-haters will always be around to tarnish the Bush brand and Jeb can always use that as his excuse not to run. However, in 2010 Jeb began to raise his own public profile. This is much easier now that Obama is faltering and Jeb´s brother is rebounding.
If this trend continues into 2011, Jeb Bush might even be convinced that 2012 is his year, especially if there is continued dissatisfaction with the current crop of candidates.
Jeb could unite the Republican Party.
The Tea Party movement and the “establishment” Republican Party must come together and agree on a compromise candidate if Obama is to be defeated in 2012. Nominating someone who polls show could not win over independent voters is like committing political suicide.
Enter Jeb Bush — who has great respect among party leaders and conservative primary voters.
He could emerge as the uniter the party desperately needs for 2012.
Jeb especially endeared himself to conservatives with his May 2010 endorsement of Marco Rubio for the U.S. Senate seat Jeb himself turned down in early 2009. By endorsing Rubio, Jeb bucked sitting Governor Charlie Crist, the establishment party choice and the man who succeeded Jeb in 2007. Fearing a loss to Rubio in the GOP primary, Crist left the party to run as an independent.
Jeb’s continued popularity in Florida helped boost Rubio, who at 39 years old is considered a national rising star. Jeb’s mentoring and early unofficial support of Rubio’s Senate campaign will reap Jeb much future good will with young party conservatives.
A recent MarketWatch column by Darrell Delamaid titled “Jeb Bush in ’12: Third time may be the charm” sums it up this way:
Jeb combines the intelligence of the father with the affability of the brother, while adding a political smoothness all his own.
With all that going for him, what are Republican voters waiting for?
What’s even more perfect is the 2012 Republican National Convention will be in Tampa, Florida.
No more Bushes, Clintons, or Kennedys. Please. That’s how we got into the mess we’re in now.
The first time I actually paid attention I suppose, and heard anyone use the term “one world government’ was George 1. It has been progressively worse in our country since then. No more Bush, Clinton, Obama, Kennedys. Our country needs new blood, not a refill of the same crap.
I believe in stem cell reserach, teaching the different ways we may have gotten here, prayer in our classes, working for what you get, getting rid of unions, no more experiments,getting back to what works, standing up for our country.
Couldn’t agree more!
So is Myra = Beachboy?
Sorry, meant to post that below!
Agree. No more dynasties. No more Kennedys, Bushs, Clintons, Obamas, Udalls, Bidens, Bayhs. No more Romneys. If we screw up and elect Mitt, he has 5 sons and we will get this crap all over again. This is a big country full of smart capable people. We have been poorly served by our new political aristocrats.
Both George Bushs are fine men, as is Jeb. Niether was much of a President. Jeb would probably be better than either, but they did not set the bar very high. They could not speak to the American people. Sr. made a bad mistake listening to Powell and stopping the first Gulf war before we had Saddam’s head on a pike. Had we done that, we would have clearly been the “strong horse” and much of the following warfare may have been avoided. Had we been the clearly resolute “strong horse” the Saudi supporters of Al Qaeda may not have been so generous. Dad missed an opportunity in the first Gulf War and set up a situation that W. had to finish. W did not do a very good job of it, again by not being resolute enough from the start and doing a poor job of keeping the public behind the effort. It appeared most of the time that he was not even trying to keep public support.
I don’t know anyone who’s against ASCR; you know, the kind that actually works to cure diseases and repair damage and doesn’t involve dicing up embryos. Are you actually that misinformed, that you think ASCR and ESCR are the same, or are you just hoping we are?
Thanks, we have had enough with dynasties since 1776. If we had wanted rule by the same family we could have just stayed English.
Yes please. I would like to see if american voters have learned anything at all.
Here’s how jeb would run the government:
(1) He’d skip the whole pretence of church/state separation entirely. Daddy sort of gave lip service to morals, picking fights with movie-stars. Baby 1 used the power of the purse to favour “godly” causes, baby 2 won’t even muck about with that stuff – he’ll go straight for prayer in schools and teaching creationism as science.
(2) Apart from making any sort of stem cell research impossible and making it increasingly hard, he’d have more or less no domestic agenda.
(3) He’d basically sit on his hands until an excuse for a massive war came along.
(4) He’d milk that for the rest of his term in office, attaching every decision to military appropriations and using it as cover to spy on americans.
That’s what bushes do. The only interesting question that you need to ask him is “who are we going to be at war with for the next 4-8 years?”. That’s the only variable, the rest is already written.
I, for one, intend to laugh myself silly if palin or another bush gets into office.
Oh, please.
Just say nothing more and just go away.
The last thing this Nation needs is a phony Conservative like Jeb Bush.
Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Bush?
Jeebus.
Amen. Jeb Bush would be a disaster.
He would not have been AS BAD as GW, if he had run & won INSTEAD of GW, but that’s a long way from saying he’d be a GOOD president.
He’d likely make the same fatal mistake as GW, and surround himself with his Daddy’s New World Order cronies.
Myra, Myra… Few weeks ago you have received your portion of bashing for writing as derogatory as irrational rant against Sarah Palin.
Today it is clear that it was just a preparatory piece to promote some personality from the GOP nomenklatura along the line: “Everyone but Palin!”
So shallow and predictable!
Why do you salivate yourself over Jeb? Hasn’t he recently
stated unequivocally that he has NO INTENTION of running?
Even more. When asked if he would support Sarah Palin in the case she decided to run, his response was pretty firm: “You betcha!”
That was very classy from him. And so much in contrast with the unfortunate blabber his mum has accidentally spewed about Palin.
Looks like anti-Palin GOP fanatics becoming rather desperate in their efforts to find replacement for Sarah.
You aren’t going to succed!
Sarah Palin is unstoppable!
And a message to all Palin’s detractors:
Sarah is having a fun of her life. She has been working enormously hard throughout her entire adult life and she deserves decent holiday and rest.
It is a working holiday though and an extremely effective an productive one.
Yesterday another cretin, Jonathan Tobin raged over her funny response to Kraut where she used some funny phrase “Hoighty, doighty” or something like that.
It was supposed to be a proof of her unseriousness.
For any discernible observer it is clear that she is deliberate in showing her funnier, more carefree side as she doesn’t want to look too presidential now.
However, if she decides to run, she shall again suprise us as she did so many times in the past.
We haven’t seen anything yet.
Stop hallucinating Myra.
you are much more perceptive than I am.
Myra, go away…again. I didn’t like your article on Palin either.
Bogdan,
It is obvious that you have little understanding of the realities of politics in America. Ms. Adams has articulated excellent, well-reasoned arguments for Jeb Bush to at least consider getting into the 2012 race for president. The path you would choose for Republicans and this nation would lead us nowhere. Please limit your commentaries to Australian politics in the future. You haven’t a clue about the US.
Actually, Beachboy I believe I have at least as much clue about American politics as you have. I’m an extremely compassionate America watcher for the last thirty or so years. Appart from that my unique experience which derives from living under the boot and whip of communism during the best years of my life gives me also unique ability to observe and judge the degenerative socio-political processes taking place in your country and compare them with the life under the communism towards which a large chunk of the American population in its ignorance and confusion is pushing.
That makes my heart convulse in pain.
Because I shall ALWAYS remember that it was America under REAGAN who brought freedom to my country.
That also makes me much more sensitve to the danger that is hanging over the US and her people.
So I have the reason to believe that I have actually much more clue than yourself.
I shall ALWAYS defend and support Sarah Palin because no other American political persona resembles as much Reagan as Palin does and no one represents similar STRATEGIC MIND as Palin does.
It doesn’t mean that I have anything against Jeb Bush. In fact he had been one of my favourites before Sarah appeared on the political scene.
I was even dissapointed when he signalled in the past that he wasn’t interested in running for the POTUS.
Appart from that, where it is stated that Pajamas Media blog is restricted to the Yanks only?
Myra Adams is as much eloquent as she is crappy…
P.S: I have nothing but contempt for Australian politics…
Right on brother…
The Spirit of ’76 lives in you…
Bogdan, we love our conservative Aussie bloggers, so feel free to continue. Actually, some of the comments from Australia, Canada and Great Britain have been so insightful, and the good thing is…they can feel free to comment with no threat from the Obama regime, unlike Americans, who are beginning to feel his boot on our neck. Some of the best articles I’ve read come from Canada Free Press. We love our conservative America supporters!
“the unfortunate blabber his mum has accidentally spewed about Palin.”
That was no accident. Barbara Bush is a liberal feminist, in the worst sense of the term.
Another example of a lib trying to push one of the worst candidates onto us for nomination, so their Dem candidate will win. They (led officially by the NYTimes) did this with McLame, and dropped their support immediately after he won the nomination. With all due respect to his military service, I cannot remember a worse campaigner than he was. Maybe it’s because he’s been on auto-re-elect for so many years in AZ that he’s never really had to campaign for an office. It was like, he didn’t know how! Anyway, there’s no way someone named Bush could win a pres election again this soon – if ever again. We’ve had it with them. So, conservatives, be on the lookout for this over-used tactic of talking-up our candidate for us.
No, no, no, no, and no.
I have nothing against Jeb Bush. Frankly, I would have rather had him than his brother for President. I always thought he was a good governor (at least from afar, I never had to judge him up close).
However, in a nation of millions, is the Republican talent pool really only one family deep?
Find some new blood.
I agree with JVON NO MORE BUSHES, CLINTONS OR KENNEDYS PULEESE !!!!.
Jeb Bush’s unique relationship with Hispanic Americans will unite 90+ percent of the Republican Party alright; it will be 100 percent against him.
Yeah, that relationship will develop into another push for amnesty. They will call it something else just like the democrats but that’s what it will be.
How pathetic! Did Myra Adams break a heel running for the “No Labels” bus? Did she fall down in front of a Pajamas Media editor and trade this POS for a band-aid?
A few weeks ago it was nice guy Vlad Putin and his ‘Save the tigers’ act. Now this.
Pajamas Media seems to be going south. That annoying pop-up, ‘think’ pieces that don’t require much thinking, maybe some new blood is already needed.
Anonymous, you need to stay anonymous. Ms. Adams is right on!
Not sure why everyone feels that Obama will be running for re-election. The man is OUT. Why would the country allow him to run for re-election and not demand knowing about his past. Wake-up America. The man is a snake oil salesman and not even worthy of our consideration.
Logic would agree, but we don’t live in logical times. Many organizations have been stirring up Impeach movements, but nothing seems to be happening. Obama has protected himself and his incriminating history with a cohort of thugs that has deflected everything that has been thrown at him. Apparently there are many, in Congress and the public, who figure they’ll get more than they will have to give by supporting BHO. Especially those who don’t have anything to lose. That thought process is why we are at this point in history. Obama knows it, and he has no shame whatever.
What needs to be done is figure some way that his blind supporters will see that the gravy train can’t run forever on slogans, it needs a viable economic base. And BHO has pretty much ruined that.
The Impeachment movement is going no where because it takes 67 votes in the Senate to remove a President from office, does anyone seriously thing enough Dems will shift over and vote to remove Obama?
Having said that we don’t need another political dynasty in the US, we need a good solid conservative who will pick a good solid conservative VP to run.
Robert wrote:
“Not sure why everyone feels that Obama will be running for re-election. The man is OUT. Why would the country allow him to run for re-election and not demand knowing about his past. ”
I recall a line from one of Robert Heinlein’s books. A fellow was arguing with perfect logic why The Federation would not invade Venus to put down a fledgling rebellion. The narrator’s response:
“Those who live for power have a different logic. The Federation struck that night.”
(Quoted from memory – apologies to Heinlein fans if I misquoted.)
Obama will run again, and he will fight to the death to be reelected. Let Hilary show one scintilla of willingness to run against him in the primary and he will launch all out war against her.
Don’t count on reason to keep Obama from running again, and don’t count on logic to keep America from re-electing him.
I am disturbed at this rationalization for another professionally polictical family election. I am more disturbed that PJ decided to run the story. No more professional politicians. No more lawyers. No more “polictics is the family business” types. No more.
No more RINOS!!!!!!!NO!!!NO!!!!NO!!!!!!!!!
I have more then eight reasons why you should be posting on the DailyKos and not here. It is people like Ms. Adams that makes me think the repeal of the 19th Ammendment is a possibility someday.
Pedro,
You are insulting. Go crawl back in your hole.
And you are engaging in reasoned discussion?
Jeb should not run. It will just give Obama a straw man to run against in 2012. You just know Obama will turn the campaign into a fight between himself and George W. Bush and not Jeb. Jeb will also be made almost irrelevant by the main stream media, who will pick up on Obama’s tactic because they want to see Obama win. No, sorry, I don’t care how good Jeb is, he should not run for president.
I still think Newt Gingrich has a great shot at it. He is smart, could defeat Obama in a debate, and knows how to get things through Congress. Personal baggage aside, he would run rings around Obama. By 2012, most Americans will be willing to vote Gingrich into office, regardless of his past personal failures. He’s the only candidate with the name recognition and the toughness to sink Obama in a campaign, and most Republicans know it.
Gingrich has the charisma, youth and appeal of a dinousaur. Obama would mop the floor with this old white man like he did with Mccain
You obviously know nothing about Newt Gingrich and you certainly have NOT seen him in a recent debate. I have. He is very, very, good, has a great mind, and could run rings around that man/boy Obama. You really should look at some of his debates before you make a silly statement like that.
“I still think Newt Gingrich has a great shot at it. He is smart, could defeat Obama in a debate, and knows how to get things through Congress.”
True.
He’s also a RINO with his finger in the wind.
If Jeb runs I’ll register Republican and campaign against him.
The central theme is not only no, but hell no! Even to the point of frothing, stomping, shouting, calling and writing NO.
I would do more than that to make sure he loses.
No more monarchy. Myra Adams is just doing her ‘anybody but Palin’ thing.
And by the way, her ABPT is PJ Media’s ABPT. She is merely the mouthpiece for PJM’s management.
Is this an article from the Onion?
Two words:
Hell.
No.
Is the only requirement for writing for pajamas media these days just having a pulse?
Hell to the no!!!
I will sit out the election before I vote for Jeb Bush. I am so sick and tired of these political families who think they have some kind of divine right to positions of power. Hey Jeb, just continue to use your former public executive position and family connections to make a living and leave America alone. Please.
This is a stupendously bad idea, of the type that spits out candidates like Dole and McCain, and while Repulicans may fancy Jeb, conservatives do not.
Unbelievable!
Oh…my…God! What a great idea. We so need a royal family with “royal blood” just like the Brits have in ole Bligh-y. How could we do anything but cheer the return of our Revolution-era royalists. Hip hip hooray. So why have a mere substitute like Bush when we can have the real thing? Let’s just simply reinstall UK rule. Jolly good show, what.
This is not to deny his accomplishments as Governor, but, if he was Jeb Jones, would he even be considered for President?
Say what? George the III? What is it about dynasties that appeal to those with no imagination?
Take me at my word. I never vote for a Democrat in a National Election but Jeb Bush cannot be elected. Barbara Bush and the elite Republicans have shown their face and I will not vote for an elitist and I suspect there are a lot of Independents out there that feel the same way. Obama is the worst President ever but his looking down upon the average person is no worse than the Bush family or the elitist Republicans.
You should be a person with some kind of “obey the aristocracy” fever to suggest another Bush male into the White House. The Bushes are finished. This family and the Clintons destroyed the Nation with bail outs, scandals, corruption and arrogance. How can you suggest this fat guy to run?
To quote that wonderful shyster Jesse Jackson, “STAY OUT DA BUSHES”. Amen. Just say no to Bush.
No more political dynasties for this country.No more ruling class elite calling the shots. In a country of about 300 million we can’t come up with something better then the usual political hacks, if not we are in deep doodoo.
Iguess you don’t getit either , we Americans are trying our dambdest to restore the republic , not keep the Rino , CFR CABAL RUNNING .
Big government types will never learn because they don’t want to learn! Witness the Bushes and their apologists, like Myra Adams.
The thought that either party would nominate another Bush is dumbfounding. Then again, it was dumbfounding that the Republican party would nominate John McCain who has done next to nothing to ingratiate himself with conservatives over the years. In the approaching cycle unappealing establishment Republicans like Mitch Daniels are going to be the ones with the most financial support. It is hard to see the Republican party as a vehicle for change. If the Tea Party wants to avoid being co-opted only an NRA style approach, on an issue by issue basis, is likely be effective. Whether the Tea Party is coherent enough to avoid being copted is unclear.
Although I think Jeb would probably be better than the other two, are you out of your mind? Do you want to guarantee another four years of obama? We do not do royalty in this country. We do not need family dynasties in our political “leadership”. As another poster put it, we have 0ver 300 million people in this country. Do you mean to tell me we cannot find one candidate for the Presidency out of this number? No more Bushes, no more Clintons.
Jeb Bush would push his father’s and brother’s One World Order government faster than the current Marxist-in-Chief. The Border Patrol would be dissolved and, between his wife and son, the doors would be pushed wide open so that Mexico could send us their remaining citizens.
As someone who voted for GHWB and GWB, and someone who now finally sees them for what they are, I would work aggressively to ensure another Bush (especially Jeb and his son, George) never darken the White House’s door.
With men the caliber of Jim DeMint, Mike Pence, Steve King, and several others now in Congress why would this author, Karl Rove, and the RNC further insult our intelligence by suggesting their Party is so devoid of talent so as to reduce the potential Republican nominees to people such as Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Haley Barbour, or any of the other old-school, snake oil politicians who are recycled every 4 years?
In response to “why would this author…..” You need only to click on Myra’s link at the top of the page to under stand who she is and why she wrote this piece.
Myra Adams
Myra Adams is a media producer, writer and political observer, who served on the McCain Ad Council during the 2008 McCain campaign, and on the 2004 Bush campaign creative team. Her columns have appeared on The Daily Caller and as a co-writer on The Daily Beast. Myra’s web site TheJesusStore.com contributes all profits to Christian charity. Follow @MyraKAdams on Twitter.
I only clicked on this story to read the comments. It was a foregone conclusion that the article would be rubbish. Myra Adams appears to be an idiot with an unhealthy level of self-regard. One disagreement with some of the comments. PJM should keep publishing her drivel. It adds a nice contrast.
No.
Doesn’t Eisenhower or Reagen have a son, grandson, nephew, or some other shirt tailed relative that can be dragged out of a closet somewhere? Do we really need to keep trying to drain the same swamp?
We really need some fresh thinking in DC, it’s time for Palin, not another Bush.
President Reagan has two sons, one adopted and the other is his biological son. They adopted son is a solid Conservative and the biological son follows his moms politics, which is liberal.
So far 35 comments, and all of them varieties of ‘NOOOOOOO!’
Perhaps I should be original, and say ‘yeah, what a great idea!’
But I can’t do it, not even as a joke.
So, Ms. Adams……’NoooooooOOOOOOOOOOOO!’
Jeb Bush ain’t gonna happen. Rightly or wrongly, many years will pass before the country will vote again for a slow-talking southerner, and / or another Bush. Beside, the Bush’s don’t have the lock-jawed sychophantic groupies that the Clintons have.
I will NEVER vote for another Bush as long as I live. They are WAY too interensted in gettting along with democrats. W would not even fight against dem lies because he felt it compromised his presidential dignity too much. He cut taxes, but he spent like a drunken kennedy. No no no no no. We need someone who can articulate and fight for conservative positions. We need someone who can make the conservative case because hard decisions need to be made and well spoken for and your point that Jeb is against the Arizona imigration law just says it all for me.
And for those of you who think Newt is the answer, think again. Have you not noticed how he falls all over himself the agree and accomodate democrats at every turn. When he was speaker, Hillary ran him out of town on a rail. If he cound’nt fight that fight, he can’t fight the current very inportant battle either.
Again: We don’t need a candidate that has a record of supporting a pervert-worshipping cult.
http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2007/07/05/encounter/
No, Jesus was not a pervert…
Jesus is not a muslim… mohammad married a six year old girl; allowed boys without beards to be ‘play things’; let anything go with a slave; promotes slavery as holy; views blacks as ‘raisin heads’ descended to serve as slaves for eternity…. etc..
You need to separate the ideology from the acts..
The Catholic Church brings this evil upon themselves by forcing Priests to deny their sexuality.
Whereas the Church is being infiltrated by deviants because of their un-biblical need to preserve ancient land rights, the ulemma of islam and their imams allow for human deviancy through outlets built into the ideology of islam as a whole..
If mohammad did it, it’s halal.. Unless he strictly forbids it..
btw.. allah doesn’t exist.. He’s a bunny rabbit. islam is ALL mohammad.
Marcial Maciel was most certainly a pervert (sorry, Van Grungy, Maciel and Christ are NOT THE SAME); just this week, it was announced that it’s still acceptable for Legion and Regnum members to study his works. Yes, I admit that some members no longer worship “Nuestro Padre” so maybe I’ll have to start calling LC/RC “the cult formerly known as pervert-worshipping”.
But seriously, anyone with ties to the Legion that wants to run for POTUS (Jeb, Santorum, or Newt), has some ‘splainin’ to do if they want to get anywhere in New Hampshire in 2012. Otherwise, I suggest folks focus their time and money on an electable candidate to face Obama or Hillary.
Don’t Jeb, don’t!
Glad to see this topic incites such passion in PJ readers!
It’s not just PJ readers. It’s the overwhelming view of conservatives everywhere. Jeb Bush has about as much chance of getting elected as PeeWee Herman. He’s only slightly more electable than the execrable Mitt Romney.
But then, someone who thinks McCain was a good candidate probably can’t understand why, or even acknowledge that it’s true.
No More Bushes, No Way, No How, Not Ever!!!!!!!!!
If the GOP puts that idiot on the ticket; I swear I’ll swim to Cuba and surrender to the Commies. Might as well get it over with quickly while good rooms in the Gulag are still available.
Please recall Acts I & II…
Conservatives, led by Reagan, wrest control away from the Progressives, and then Bush I destroys everything we worked for.
Conservatives wrest control away from the Progressives with Newt and the 2000 Election, and then Bush II destroys everything we worked for.
Now Conservatives have again wrested control away from the Progressives with the TEA Party and you are proposing that we put Bush III in charge?
Give me a ****ing break! You can’t be serious.
Is it April Fool’s Day, but I don’t know because I forgot to wind my calendar?
OG
PS: Glad to see people here aren’t buying it. We need a “Throwing a shoe” Smiley for posts like this.
PPS: This person must be a Progressive plant from Vast RINO Conspiracy, please find better columnists.
Good god, no, no, NO.
Bush 41 was a so-so President, not really committed to anything. Education President? Excuse me, but where in the Constitution does it say that the Presidency has anything to do with the responsibility of educating the populace? Maybe you should have studied that document more closely, Mr. President.
Bush 43 was on track to be another so-so President just like his father until 9/11. He appropriately decided to kick some ass and while he was at it, clean up the unfinished ass kicking that his father started but never finished. (Resetting the international chess board back to starting positions is not the way to teach a bully a lesson. Had the US backed the uprising against Saddam that was verbally encouraged by Bush 41, we wouldn’t have had to enforce a no-fly zone for a decade and then finally go in later to finish the job at much greater cost in lives and treasure.) However, domestically Bush 43 was pretty miserable for a Republican having spent like a Democrat, making it the worst of both worlds.
So Jeb Bush as Bush 45? Give me a freakin’ break.
Haven’t you establishment republicans learned one damned thing from the 2010 election?
It’s a dead certainty the Republicans haven’t learned a single thing whatsoever from the election. Nada. Zip. The shenanigans in the lame duck session prove it. They merely feel entitled.
<snork> Yeah, right.
JB needs toi do a 180 on his support for amnesty for illegal aliens. Otherwise, he’ll never get past the selection process. Supporting amnesty is a career killer to the vast majority of conservatives.
Like McCain did? No thanks. I WANT him to keep supporting amnesty, because I do NOT want him to get past the selection process!
When Tropical Storm ________ hits Tampa in August 2012, the RNC will look like fools for not booking Phoenix. All they had to do was promise Brian Sandoval, Susana Martinez, Quico Canseco or Jaime Herrera (Cubans are in the bag anyway) the keynote address.
Not a chance. Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me. A third time?!?! What are you thinking?
Thank you Tolbert for a bit of explaination by way of disclosure.
Talk about a lame attempt at a one-woman groupie draft movement. Who should be his running mate – Giuliani or Fred Thompson? I don’t know what is more pathetic here, Myra Adams lack of political acumen or Myra Adams evident need to manufacture a job for herself. {easy Myra – they DID EXTEND UNEMPLOYMENT BENNIES DID THEY NOT!}
Another Bush would unify the party? Oh really? Conservatives will be having bar room brawl like arguments over the contributions towards extending the Regean legacy concerning both the father and the son, and now comes the tortured argument that ‘the third times a charm’ brother is just what the country needs? Simply laughable.
Hey, I caught Jeb doing a local gig by way of his invitation to speak at ASU – and I came away mildly impressed. There may a cabinate place for him in a Romney/Daniels administration, but that’s about it(more in a moment). Yes, what he did with education in Florida was miraculous and worthy of emulating – and the major reason he was called on to speak. Also admirable was his willingness to speak openly about his lessons as a govenor even when they didn’t dovetail neatly with the crowd that was fauning all over him via the Morrison Institute here in Phoenix.
[namely his recongition that the key to putting his plan on educaiton into play was cornering medicare costs - read federal costs - costs his state had to deal with every fiscal year - because combining the two together made up almost 2/3 of the state budetary obligations - a fact those who dont like our current gov - Jan Brewer - have been ignoring when trying to beat her up ever since she cut into the states rather generous Medicare equivilant - ACCH - #4 nationally in benefits bestowed -all in an attempt to defray anymore K-12 cuts,among others. But that, like immigration, is another story]
Here is the truth about Jeb Bush. He ISN’T RUNNING. He was as frank as frank could be when some Myra Adams likeminded folk in the audience insisted he would be a great president. His reasons sounded very genuine – and to me – music to my ears since I don’t share the Adams families notion that another Bush should EVER BE IN THE WHITE HOUSE IN MY LIFETIME. I too think we have all suffered enough as far as this family line.
Jebs reasons? First, HE DOESN’T WANT IT. He’s gotten an up close taste twice, once as the son of and once as the brother. That is enough for him and I believe he was, again, sincere. Two, he believes the name is a liablity and not a plus (more evidence that he was a good gov because he was a pretty deft fellow). And three, despite some adulation from some very loyal folks, HE BELIEVED HE HAD ZERO CHANCE FOR THE NOM IF HE TRIED.
Not exactly a ‘third time may be a charm’ kind of ‘keeping the door open’ response.
Jeb Bush is the perfect candidate for the ‘no lables’ crowd – a bunch of nervous ninny’s all worked up about ‘perception problems’ within conservatism today. I generally like Mark McKinnon. I met him once as a civilian at a small political gig here in phoenix. A really likable political junkie. I just find a lot of his – and those like Myra’s – handwringing over the supposed problems in the party to be a bunch of bunk. And a lot of his suggestions to be self-serving baloney as well. Although I don’t accuse Mark of trying cynically to cash in – he really does believe most of the blather that hes suggesting. I just believe he is wrong – a debate worthy of both our conservative positions in my view.
Likewise the ruse about his capturing the mythical ‘latino vote’ – this notion of some monolithic Latino get as far as electorial politics is crack for some political insiders. Rational people see such ethnic chivanism for what it is – the ultimate wishfull fillment pipe dream.
How, after the firestorm kicked up about us in Arizona, was it that this vote didn’t mimic the black 90% plus vote AGAINST CONSERVATIVES or REPUBLICANS?
How could we have the kind of victories we now enjoy? And the evidence is what? We didn’t take the final 4 Senate seats? Again – we got the most gains congressionally in over 70 years – and we didn’t ‘quite make it’ because we failed to take back a Senate majoritiy – and it was because of the Tea Party and not paying enough attention to what Latino’s want?
That is absurd – but it is the No Labals byline. It’s also crap.
What is the right combo for 2012?
I think especially after the Obama nightmare – what people will be craving is content and competence – less concerned with the charisma having been so burned by a flash in the campaign like Barrack.
I also think social conservatives – despite Myra Adams ramblings -including skittish christians – set aside their misgivings about Romney’s Mormanism and his secular aposty as far as Romneycare in MASS as govenor and embrace him and Mitch Daniels of Indiana.
Neither are ‘dream’ candidates. Both have warts politically or otherwise – but both have extensive proven backgrounds for doing far more than Jeb Bush – and both have these accomplishments in the vital area’s that confront the country today – business acumen/success=jobs creation plus innovation; tackling debt problems and solving them; attacking the bloated government like unions and winning. In short – where they have been they left an impressive legacy of getting things of importance accomplished – and – left their universe a vastly improved place.
Again – competence and content in abundence.
Its the ticket that is the anti-obama big gov loser people have grown to hate. Its the ticket that would lead the country back to prosperity – Romney/Daniels 2012.
The ‘NO LABLES’ movement is the ‘COFFEE MOVEMENT’ of the right. It’s about as relevant as esperanto (look it up)…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Myra Adams needs to get a job. This post was almost as excoriating as a Ruben Navarrette piece of dung. Horrible eight grade logic gushing from a moronic teenager.
Romney? barf. And you’re looking at the wrong Hoosier.
Take a deep breath. Already DC CALLER is reporting that the Pense ‘exploritory committee’ is leaning toward his running for a job he is ready and could bounce into in a heartbeat – Gov following Daniels exit.
I know it is hard for the CPAC people to envision but – THEY DON’T OWN THE PARTY. OK. For all those folks who claim Romney is some RINO who is scary because he never has a hair out of place, you tell me who has the kind of accomplishments to match this guy?
Last time I look what conservatives care about most are freedom and capitalism. Next to what OBama soaked up by way of religious advice – AND HAS ACTED UPON – Mormanism is no longer objectionable.
Next to (and not far behind either) Palin – Romney has been the most influencial money man and get out the vote machine in this congressional cycle. But unlike Palin – who did so as much because it benefited her personally by enhancing her FOX celebrityhood via selling books and promoting her TV show – as much as it was a political decision – Romney’s stumping for candidates nationwide was the very kind of political capital campaign that every potential front runner engages.
That is what gets things done in politics Jeannette – whether it makes you barf or not.
That is how to become a REAL PRESIDENT – rather than just flurt with playing one on TV.
Actually, I don’t disagree with your comments about Palin. I’m more of a Pence fan right now, but I haven’t looked into too many candidates thoroughly yet.
But the problem with Romney, is his religion. Sorry, but way too many Americans don’t consider Mormonism to be Christianity (mind you, I’m Catholic so I know that many Protestants don’t consider me to be Christian, either, since I didn’t get rid of the inconvenient books in the Bible and then wave around the maimed remnants proclaiming “sola scriptura” lol). I’ve looked a little into the LDS theology and it seems pretty goofy to me, I’m afraid (again, I’m one who takes John 6:53 literally, so I recognize the irony here).
But the US vote is made up of lots of people who bring their particular biases with them, and a lot of people still take their religion seriously. FWIW, the Catholic Church does not recognize Mormon baptisms though it recognizes most Protestant baptisms (it only matters if you want to convert; most Protestant converts don’t need to be rebaptized.) so there’s somewhat of an official stand on the LDS’ Christian status.
So…if you want Romney to become more electable, you have a somewhat uphill battle. Good luck and all that.
“But the problem with Romney, is his religion. ”
That dog won’t hunt. I have not detected any more than a tiny hint of opposition to Romney based on his Mormonism anywhere among evangelical Christians. Those that DO suggest such a thing are usually roundly condemned. I can’t speak for Catholics or for the CINOs of the mainstream liberal denominations, but then, they most often vote Democrat, anyway.
The only possible explanations for this accusation that I have been able to come up with are:
1. Wishful thinking.
It may be that Romney supporters would like to dump all the opposition to Romney into the “anti-Mormon bigotry” bucket. THEN they don’t have to address his very real shortcomings. (To put it mildly.)
2. Projection.
I think this speaks for itself.
3. Mormon persecution complex.
Mormons can be very touchy. (That is a not-surprising result of suffering REAL persecution, which they have and DO.) Like black people seeing racism in every adverse circumstance, whether it’s there or not, Mormons often see bigotry where there is none.
I recall a discussion on a gun forum some years back. Orrin Hatch was being criticized for his increasingly bad track record on gun rights. Some posters pointed out how he had STARTED his career well, but had incrementally become a Washington insider who could not be trusted. Predictably, a Mormon joined in the discussion to castigate us all for being unhappy with Hatch only because he is Mormon. This was the only mention of Mormonism. All the rest had been a discussion of Hatch’s ACTIONS.
I see the same thing happening today with Romney. Any criticism of his actual track record is met with cries of anti-Mormonism.
It’s very convenient.
The same way the left silences conservatives with cries of racism.
“Romney is some RINO who is scary because he never has a hair out of place, you tell me who has the kind of accomplishments to match this guy”
Do you REALLY want to talk about Romney’s accomplishments? I’ll give you three:
Hard core porn in the Marriot hotel chain on his watch.
Homosexual marriage. At HIS order. (NO, not the Mass Supreme court!)
Romneycare.
His CONSERVATIVE accomplishments are exactly ZERO.
+1 on the barf sentiment. Double-barf from me because I live in the middle of the largest concentration of Romney drone “conservatives”, who never met a government takeover they didn’t like as long as it was done by a mormon “republican” “conservative”.
Man, all those words in your post and then you piss it all away by pushing for Romney.
If I had a gun at my head, I’d seriously consider voting for Jeb Bush before I voted Romney. Although, gun to head, I’d vote for Daniels over Jeb Bush.
All that common-sense and then you just go completely Romney-version of Myra Adams on us. Dispicable!
Palin/West 2012, or
Palin/Rubio 2012, or
Palin/Ryan 2012, or
Palin/Pense 2012, or
Palin/Jindal 2012, or
Palin/Barbour 2012
And if she don’t run,
Pence/Rubio 2012, or
Perry/Pence 2012
Jindal is not a natural born citizen, which is required for VP and Prez. He is a naturalized citizen, referred to as an “anchor baby”. At the time of his birth in LA, his Indian parents were not U.S. citizens. It’s unfortunate, because I think Jindal would have been a good pres someday. But, were he elected VP or Pres, we would have the same situation as we now have with Obama.
I think you are mistaken. Under current law, Jindal IS a natural born citizen.
That should be changes, but that’s the way it is now, if I understand correctly.
I cannot believe that PJM published this long-winded diatribe. What drivel. Phoenix should never be allowed to rise from the ashes with his/her ridiculous rants again!
“I also think social conservatives – despite Myra Adams ramblings -including skittish christians – set aside their misgivings about Romney’s Mormanism and his secular aposty as far as Romneycare in MASS as govenor and embrace him and Mitch Daniels of Indiana.”
I’m not quite sure what you said there – that sentence needs a major overhaul.
But I’ll take a stab at what I *think* you said:
Social conservatives, by an overwhelming majority, don’t care AT ALL about Romney’s Mormonism. That’s a convenient line for the RINO crowd that wants to simply wave their hands and dismiss opposition to Romney as President. The RINOs think they can pat us on the head and say “Tut tun, there, little SoCon, you’ll get over it. You’re really being silly and you’ll come around at election time. Run along now.”
Ain’t happenin’.
As usual, the RINOs completely miss the reasons for our opposition to Romney, and the depth of that opposition.
The truth is, we don’t care about his Mormonism. We DO care about his consistent track record of talking like a conservative when it suits him, and ACTING like a flaming, left of John Kerry liberal when he’s in office.
In other words, Romney is a non-starter. You might get him nominated, but he will never be elected, because we will not vote for him, no matter WHO he’s running against.
Yes, we’ll see Obama get a second term before we’ll vote for Romney.
With that last sentence, you gotta be kidding! Any 2012 pres candidate that has the minimum requirements of not being a Dem, not being a Muslim and not being against America by promoting a one world order should be elected. If Romney runs and fails to hold either of those, he should not be elected. But, as far as I know, he meets those requirements. Anyone with those values is better than Obama.
Nope. Not kidding.
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“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
Romney is a traitor. He is far more dangerous than Obama. Any student of history would recognize this.
Regarding JEB’s qualifications, he apparently doesn’t believe in profiling. That very efficient process was done in by Political Correctness, and all you have to do is examine the TSA procedures and read the Israeli processes. If that is his only problem with Arizona’s law, can he point to any abuses that have resulted (that aren’t imaginary)?
I agree that Royalty shouldn’t be a part of candidate selection, especially if CNN is pushing JEB. Remember how NYT was pushing (practically nominating) McCain? I bet they’re still laughing about that one. There are solid conservative Republicans serving in our government who have similar qualifications as JEB without the family baggage. If Tea Party-inclined leaders can only seek them out in time for them to gain name recognition.
I have real reservations about the ability of many Republican Party leaders to finally see what needs to be done, and they’ll probably come up with a quasi-RINO to lead. Newt Gingrich is a good name for the haters to attack, but he couldn’t even debate Kerry on Global Warming a while back. IMPEACH or FIND THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE! We don’t have any more Terry Lakins to sacrifice. Courts-Martial don’t preserve rights, they justify Wrongs, as Specialist Michael New has proven.
No – never.
Voted for Dad once and he raised taxes after promising not to.
Voted for brother and he ran wild with the spending.
So no – never. As with McCain, I may not vote for the Democrat, but I definitely won’t vote for Jeb. I would hate to sit out two Presidential elections in a row, but I will not vote for another Bush.
Run Jeb, Run!
How about..
STFU Myra, STFU!
No. How about STHU, you sapsucking fool!
Columba is a white lady- Jeb’s offspring are NOT BI-RACIAL!! half Coumbian, born in USA makes them AMERICANS not hyphenated anythings- and who cares if they are “bi_racial”? are we not the group that made fun of voting by skin colors?? Is that not how we got Obamanation?
there is no such thing as HISPANIC or LATINO- it is an insult to people who have nationality from many various Spanish speaking countries to lump them all together as if they are ONE politically or any other way
NO NO NO to anymore BUSHES
NO! NO! NO!
No, family dynasties in THIS country, absolutely not, never EVER under ANY circumstances.
You said it perfectly yourself in your fifth paragraph: “…shifting political winds could mean 2012 is the right time for Jeb Bush to ascend to the family throne.”
NO! NO! NO! The United States IS NOT A MONARCHY!
We will never be so desperate as a people as to have to knowingly install a tyrant to fix our political problems. There is enormous talent in this country that we will never see because the fat, bloated oligarchs of all political colors and stripes squat on every avenue to political power for thirty, forty, even fifty years – just as individuals – and you want to make this multi-generational?
You don’t seem to get it at all – our democracy that is. Political dynasties are the rot of democracy, ALWAYS, in all times and places, throughout history. People get too used to power, families become too used to telling everyone else what to do, people get too used to turning to the usual suspects to tell them what to do, and if they aren’t criminals already when No.1 takes power, after two or three generations grow up with every sycophant, pundit and power-broker trying to oil each one of them up, it is no wonder that they almost all tend to wind up rather oleiferous.
What this country’s imperiled democracy needs is not another Bush, but TERM LIMITS – radical term limits and laws that prevent exactly this type of occurrence from ever happening. Your husband/ex-husband was president? – sorry you don’t get to run; three senators or governors in you family in the last two generations? -sorry, find some other way to serve your country. So if Jeb Bush is really such a great character, let him prove it to us by RESISTING this temptation and find something else equally or more productive to do with the rest of his life.
If you like the rule of dynastic families and aristocracies so much, go to Europe, go to the Middle East, go to the third world, please by all means, but please just LEAVE!
The only thrones we have in this country are the ones we all sit on in that little room while we do our business. Jeb Bush certainly has the right to ascend to that family throne. But he better keep his ass out of the White House.
correction to my post
half Coumbian sorry! should read—> half Mexican-American
Either way, you’re an idiot.
Too stupid a notion for any kind of intelligent comment. Another Bush? The first wasn’t bad enough, so we elected his idiot son Ruprecht. Ruprecht the neocon monkey boy wasn’t bad enough (he merely lost a war against the most primitive country on the planet, bankrupted his country and made it possible for a full-fledged communist to become president) and the Bush clan (Big furry Bush, the Little Shrub, and what shall I call the latest travesty — the weed whacker who imagines himself the Burning Bush?) now imagines they are the Kennedy dynasty? Puh-lease.
Glad to see the unanimous rejection of the article and its author. Yes, Jeb did a good job as governor, but that was because he had the tools and authority to do so. He vetoed something like $2 billion of worthless pork, most of it pushed by Republican legislators, so he’s a solid fiscal conservative. Unfortunately, the president does not have line-item veto authority, so he wouldn’t be able to use that weapon against a free-spending Congress. (Reason #27,093 why the South should have won the Civil War: the Confederate president did have that power.)
On everything else, though, Jeb is a multi-culti RINO. Apparently Ms. Adams forgot that Bill McCollum’s Bushian opposition to the Arizona anti-illegals law played a large role in his GOP primary loss to Rick Scott, our new governor-elect. You think Shrub loves open borders? With Jeb, you’d have the DREAM Act on steroids.
And as many others have stated here, the last thing we need is another political dynasty. The Kennedys were bad enough; if anything, the Bushes are even more corrupt.
Jeb Bush for Secretary of the Treasury? Great!
Jeb Bush for President? No freaking way!
This article does no service to Pajamas media. The surest way to sink the Republican chances of defeating Obama is to have the Bush royal family in for one more round. I’m sure Jeb’s a fine person. But we rebelled against England 234 years ago just so we could free ourselves from a ruling class.
Beachboy, don’t you have a job to go to?
I am on my lunch break, Crissy. Frankly, I don’t usually comment on this or other websites, but reading all of these personal attacks on Ms. Adams got my goat. I’ve known her for about ten years and can attest to Myra’s only having the best interests at heart of this country and the Republican party. The vitriol that has been aimed at her for her well-researched and articulate essay amazes and disgusts me. If Jeb’s last name was Smith or Adams, he’d be a frontrunner for the nomination but sadly it seems that he won’t run because of his surname…
The most powerful woman in the western world will have to make the decision. What do you say, Barbara?
After Barbara Bush’s snarky and arrogant comment about Sarah Palin, I will mute the TV whenever she is on.
Compared to Charlie Crist, Jeb Bush was an outstanding Governor. But, that does not say much.
We can do better.
[Jeb has come out against Arizona’s controversial immigration law, saying it is the “wrong approach.”]
True. The right approach is to encourage illegal aliens to honor our sovereignty and rule of law by deporting them at 30,000 feet over their own countries.
Why is PajamasMedia posting the propaganda of Myra Adams?
I thought I was hallucinating when I saw this article. I knew it was only a matter of time before the criminal dynasty known as the Bush family floated another member to run for the Presidency..who’s left? The Bush twins? IF JEB BUSH IS THE NOMINEE IT WILL BE THE END OF THE RIGHT WING IN THIS COUNTRY. What gives with this family? A cover up? Is the game plan that a Bush runs every so often to hide what the prior Bushes have done? Jeb Bush is a non-entity on the national stage. I still remember when George II ran. His nomination came out of nowhere and his named was hardly mentioned. Then bingo! He was it. The whole thing stinks and I think Americans have had it with wealthy elite political dynasties. ISN’T THAT WHAT THE TEA PARTY WAS ALL ABOUT, AS WELL AS MANY OTHER ISSUES?????
The Bushes have been big goverment republicans .Not the right people to cut spending and reduce government, they dont believe in it.
did not even read the article
this lady worked for mccain and now wants a Bush AGAIN!
no thanks
PNMB = please no more bush’s
enough with Kennedies,Bushes, Clintons, McCains. Lets change the channel.
How about John Bolton for president. If Jeb is the party’s pick, then I will vote for a libertarian or a constitutionalist. There is more than one so called 3rd party. I will never vote for another bush. I will spend my money on candidates who are opposing him. I will spend my time and effort campaigning against him. He is Tainted by the family he is part of.
John Bolton??? You have to be kidding.
He may have great foreign policy cred, but he has about as much chance of becoming President as Snooki or Ron Paul.
Agreed. He has no track record on domestic issues, but from what little I’ve seen, I think he’d be a disaster.
He’d be a GREAT Secretary of State!
Under the Presidency of a REAL conservative, of course.
Since Jeb’s big brother is SO HATED, that must explain why on Drudge today, there is this link about W’s robust book sales at #1 and holding. First line…
“These are turning out to be very happy holidays for George W. Bush.”
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2010-12-16-xmassales16_ST_N.htm
SO FRIGGIN’ WHAT???? What do the book sales of his older brother have to do with Jeb being a great choice?????? Did he sell books to over 50% of the country?????? Get a grip lady. There are more people who don’t want another Bush in the WH than bought George’s book. Does that ring a bell for you?
OK, Author, I have nothing against Jeb, he was a pretty good Governor of my state. Unfortunately for him he is now a “Prince”. But we don’t have any open positions for Princes at the moment, and won’t have any for some time. Perhaps he could go over the pond to run for the House of Lords.
This ineptitude in the Oval Office and ghwb’s vision of a ‘one world government coming into view’ will not end until that old goat is dead. I seem to recall a rumor of the old goat being involved in the death of JFK. He(the old goat) reminds me of Mayer Rothschild with his sons sent to the major banking centers of Europe. No more entrenched political candidates; that includes Gingrich and Romney the RINO. How about Chris Christie or Trump? How about DeMint, Jindal, Barbour or my favorite and the most economically savvy of them all, Ron Paul?
Why not? Because the nation won’t elect them, that’s why not. This has nothing to to do with what we would like, but rather what the country will elect. I’d say we only have about a %55 chance of getting any Republican at all in 2012. There is absolutely NO GOP leader at the present time who has captured the public imagination. More people hate Palin than don’t – HATE her. Odds are that the only sort of Republican that can take this election will be a moderate, what you call a RINO. We don’t have any Reagans running.
Why do staunch right and far right conservatives keep ignoring the FACT that almost half the country wouldn’t support any Conservative at all? Why do you suppose our own nominating process gave us McCain last time? We are not going to get our dream candidate, we are going to get someone who isn’t as bad as Obama. That’s reality. Grow up.
hey thanks dude
you’re so smart you should run the RNC
we would do great with another moderate – like Bush, McCain. Dole etc… stupid waste of time
It may be hard for you to swallow or even imagine but a genuine conservative can indeed win – you only need a little more than half
George Bush is one of the big reasons we are stuck with obama now.
Could a Jeb Bush be any worse than the other likely GOP candidates?
To be honest, if his last name weren’t Bush, he’d easily be the best of the lot.
Geez, if there’s anything that helps Obama sleep at night, it’s the idea of running against Romney, Palin, or Gingrich. If that’s the best the GOP can do, we’re in trouble.
No you don’t David. How about this loyal Repub right there in Massachusetts. Now here is the kind of RI…guy we really need about now:
Boston Globe: “WASHINGTON — Senator John F. Kerry, laboring to achieve a foreign policy victory that would be a highlight of his career, gained crucial support yesterday for a nuclear arms control treaty with Russia from his Massachusetts colleague, Republican Senator Scott.”
Here is a great idea for a Repub ticket, Romney/Scott. Rinome and Rinomette.
Bush I and Bush II were disastrous for allowing further government encroachment. Even if I liked Jeb, which I did until his illegal immigration comments went national, I wouldn’t vote, nor encourage anyone to vote for him. One thing that really needs to be reformed is the nomination process. This idea that a couple of states can make or break you as a candidate for the party has to go. I don’t know exactly how to fix it, but Republicans across the country need a greater say in which candidate we put up. Tired. Tired. Tired of check pants Republicans, who are no better than slightly to the right of Lenin, Democrats. No way on Jeb!
This idea that a couple of states can make or break you as a candidate for the party has to go. I don’t know exactly how to fix it, but Republicans across the country need a greater say in which candidate we put up.
That’s easy. We have one general election day nationwide. Therefore we should have one primary election day nationwide for all parties. Make it the 1st week in June. If no candidate gets a majority of his party’s votes, the top two go into a runoff 2-3 weeks later. Then everyone would know who the nominees were by the end of the month. An additional benefit would be the abolition of national conventions, which have been a total waste of time and money for decades.
Reading through the header and the article, my thought was simply: “I dunno whether this guy would be any good or not (I’ve never taken the trouble to examine Jeb Bush), but I would bet that his name alone would be enough to torpedo any shot he has the White House.”
Reading through the comments above tells me I am correct. I STILL dunno if he would actually be any good, but it appears an embarrassingly large number of so-called fair and educated Americans would refuse to even consider him because of his name, rather than his actions or positions. Dislike Jeb for Jeb? Fine. Dislike him for involuntary membership in a group? That’s bigotry and stupidity.
Are you serious?
“…but the times they are a changin’ and these shifting political winds could mean 2012 is the right time for Jeb Bush to ascend to the family throne.” Your perspective, revealed by the last three words of that sentence, provided whatever bit I needed to completely dismiss your prattle.
The office of POTUS is no more “the family throne” than a Senate seat in Massachusetts is “the Kennedy seat.” Perhaps you’re wangling for a Christmas Cocktail Party invitation from some local Democrat who doesn’t love you enough? (well, you can relax….they love you now…the invitation’s in the mail)
Governor Jeb Bush has way too many skeletons in the closet, the reason he didn’t run in 2000. He will never run for National office to keep thos bodies buried and never see the light of day
no, No and NO!!!
NO!
Simple put no… for the same reasons as everyone else stated on this thread. If and when he come to NH I’ll let him know we’re done picking RINO’s (or at least I am…I said no to Charlie Bass and I’ll say no to Jeb.)
no.
Jeez, what do we live in aristocratic times where only an anointed lineage is fit to rule. ‘Bush the III’ doesn’t sit with me very well at all, AT ALL!!
I thought we were a constitutional republic not an oligarchy.
1. The last two Bush presidencies were not great. GHWB was good but not Reagan. He handled the demise of communism well and did not finish Saddam when the dictator broke the cease fire agreement. Domestically he was out of touch and Clinton cleaned his clock in 92.
2. W was not very good. He most got Afghanistan right but his domestic policy was weak and he did nothing to lead the GOP away from the disaster of 2006 (a product of corruption and arrogance). He did not reign in the banks and while he did stop the plummet of 2008, the failure to save Lehman Brothers was a colossal mistake. His failure to try the murderers of 911 in custody and his failure to stop Iran killing US troops and his abysmal handling of the Iraq war represent the failings that future conservative historians will cite as the basis for considering him at best mediocre and, possibly, one of the worst presidents of our time.
I never liked Obama and still don’t but I like Jeb. I like George W.; as individuals, but George left much to be desired as a President and Jeb will surely have that legacy to contend with. And, “Even CNN is paging him.” Is that supposed to lull us Conservatives into feeling warm fuzzies; endorsements from a Left wing media outlet? Beware of Lefties bearing gifts! They’d endorse anyone likely to lose to their messiah until the nomination and then they’ll use what they’ve got, what they’ve dug up and made up and fling enough dirt to fill a moon crater. They’re going to do that anyway but why give them a head start on what will be a very easy target. Jeb might be a good President but he’s carrying too much family baggage to make him a viable candidate in 2012. If his name was Jeb Smith, maybe.
No, no, no! If either George H.W. Bush or George W. Bush had been good presidents, I would consider it. As it is, I say no more Bushes, Clintons or Kennedys. No more dynasties of anti-liberty families.
Jeb Bush has proved that he is a spineless punk with leftist tendencies.
He is a Bob Dole revisited; a Nelson Rockefeller socialist. You want Wendell Wilkie for POTUS? Then vote for Jebbie, who will never do anything about anything.
four more years of chrony-ism and our economy run into the ground?!?! I think America has been Bushwhacked enough already! Eight years of inept rule under his dunce brother proved the inefficiency of conservatism.
Nice try. It is eight years of democratic majority in congress that has run the economy into the ground.
Let’s have some disclosure, Myra.
Did you discuss your hit piece on Palin or this article with anyone from the Bush family or from people intending to work on the Jeb Bush campaign?
Have you received any money from the Bush family or from people intending to work on the Jeb Bush campaign?
If asked, will you accept a job with the Jeb Bush campaign?
Actually, Dean, I think she’d be a great pick for his campaign manager. She’s so clueless that she’d run him into the ground very early in the campaign, and we’d be rid of him.
No.
It doesn’t take an electable majority “liking” his bro’s book to push that to #1 for a month. Geez.
“Bush” is a poison name for national politics for several generations, because using it is like mailing atomics and instructions for use to the MSM. Jeb knows this. We know this. If he does decide to run, we will know what he is attempting to do vis-a-vie the election, and I hope the reaction will be appropriately outspoken.
Oh, and “no dynasties”.
–JC
Paul Ryan, Sorry, Palin…you’re still Alaska’s hottest milf, though.
I vote Paul Ryan.
NO MORE BUSH PRESIDENTS. THEY ARE NOTHING BUT DEMOCRAT LITE!
I’d rather have another Reagan
Run Jeb, Run! is accurate, only it may be for Senate; then the whole country will be able to see what his ideas and philosophy is. After that…we’ll see.