Posted on 09/15/2015 4:43:54 AM PDT by luke1825
Always listen to your mother.
She's usually right.
That's what Jeb Bush should have done when Barbara Bush, his mother, told him to forget about it.
Barbara Bush, the wife of one president (George H.W. Bush) and the mother of another (George W. Bush) told Jeb Bush, her second son, that he ought not run for president. He should have listened.
The Bush matriarch, 88, made the comment at the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas in 2013, a time when Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, was looking pretty good in the presidential public opinion polls.
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Unfortunately, like all the Bushes, she changed her mind instead of standing her ground
I can see her point being a mother. Nutjobs have this thing about trilogies. I’m sure Rose Kennedy really did not want Teddy to run.
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