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Seriously, all this Jeb Bush talk is completely insane. Do the GOP leaders really believe that America would support another Bush being president after the previous 2 Bushes have left office as unpopular failures? (even though Bush Sr. didn't deserve that reputation, he was actually a decent president)
I can already make the attack ads for the Democrats:
"George Bush Sr. put the country into a recession.
George Bush Jr. led us into the Great Recession and the endless wars in the Middle East.
Can we really afford to give another Bush a chance to destroy the country?
Vote (a Democrat's name here) this November to keep the country from suffering through another member of the Bush family."
Why not look at former governors Buddy Roemer or Gary Johnson? They'd be much easier to sell to moderates and Bush haters...
If the GOP wants to lose, they should nominate Jeb Bush in 2016...if they want to win, it has to be a Libertarian or a Moderate, not some Bachmann/Santorum type nutjob and not another member of the Bush family.
Seriously, all this Jeb Bush talk is completely insane. Do the GOP leaders really believe that America would support another Bush being president after the previous 2 Bushes have left office as unpopular failures? (even though Bush Sr. didn't deserve that reputation, he was actually a decent president)
I can already make the attack ads for the Democrats:
"George Bush Sr. put the country into a recession.
George Bush Jr. led us into the Great Recession and the endless wars in the Middle East.
Can we really afford to give another Bush a chance to destroy the country?
Vote (a Democrat's name here) this November to keep the country from suffering through another member of the Bush family."
Why not look at former governors Buddy Roemer or Gary Johnson? They'd be much easier to sell to moderates and Bush haters...
If the GOP wants to lose, they should nominate Jeb Bush in 2016...if they want to win, it has to be a Libertarian or a Moderate, not some Bachmann/Santorum type nutjob and not another member of the Bush family.
Bachmann almost got thrown out. She barely won. Too bad but maybe the closeness of the race will get peoples attention. I was hoping she wasn't going to run and was busy building a bomb shelter.
Bachmann during the debates late 2011 "we have an IAEA report, that just recently came out, that said, literally, that Iran is within just months of being able to obtain that weapon."
Maybe government months is like years in real people terms? After all it does take government forever to get things done.
Course she could have hitched a ride with Newt on his moon rocket instead.
Seriously, all this Jeb Bush talk is completely insane. Do the GOP leaders really believe that America would support another Bush being president after the previous 2 Bushes have left office as unpopular failures?
I don't think that is as insane as you might think. I have tremendous admiration for Jeb and if the Republican Party were to return to sanity I would seriously consider actively supporting him. As for Bush 41, I don't agree in the least bit that he was a failure as president, quite the opposite. I believe to this day that his action with regards to Kuwait was an admirable use of American military power. Having said that, even if Dubya was just a mediocre president, a third member from the same family would push the limits of American dynastic tolerance, so following the disaster that was Bush 44, I think the possibility of a Bush 46 to be extremely unlikely but it isn't impossible.
I don't think that is as insane as you might think. I have tremendous admiration for Jeb and if the Republican Party were to return to sanity I would seriously consider actively supporting him. As for Bush 41, I don't agree in the least bit that he was a failure as president, quite the opposite. I believe to this day that his action with regards to Kuwait was an admirable use of American military power. Having said that, even if Dubya was just a mediocre president, a third member from the same family would push the limits of American dynastic tolerance, so following the disaster that was Bush 44, I think the possibility of a Bush 46 to be extremely unlikely but it isn't impossible.
Read the other recent Jeb Bush thread where the right is getting all giddy imagining scenarios with Jeb being nominated. They honestly believe this is a real possibility that the American people will accept. I wouldn't put anything past the right wing media. They live in their own alternate reality where W was a great president and Romney won the election.
As a Florida resident who witnessed Jeb Bush govern and who is a liberal, I have say that Jeb Bush was a good governor. Who cares about his last name? His demeanor is more moderate than conservative. He speaks Spanish and's married to a Latina. He has even called out the extremism within the current GOP.
Jeb Bush's performance as a governor was spectacular. You think Chris Christie did a good job after Sandy? Jeb Bush was governor of a state that was obliterated by 3 hurricanes in 2004.
Jeb isn't a bad guy.
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