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Chorus grows for 2012 Jeb Bush White House run
The Daily Caller ^ | 02/08/2011 | Will Rahn

Posted on 02/08/2011 11:02:32 AM PST by kingattax

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To: kingattax
I guess he'll have to do until Meghan McCain turns 35 and is able to run for president in 2020. [ do I really need a sarcasm tag on that?]
61 posted on 02/08/2011 11:24:59 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
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To: ScottinVA
My God.. is the GOP’s field so weak that Jeb Bush has to be even under consideration? If that is indeed the case, we’re screwed.

Field is the strongest since Reagan! Palin,Palin, Palin, and more Palin!!!!

62 posted on 02/08/2011 11:25:16 AM PST by factmart
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To: kingattax

Yeah, a Greek chorus, and we all know what happens in Greek tragedies.


63 posted on 02/08/2011 11:25:33 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: kingattax

He is EXTREMELY bad on the immigration issue. None of them are very good of course, but he’s the absolute worst.


64 posted on 02/08/2011 11:25:33 AM PST by Daralundy
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To: ScottinVA
You've hit the nail on the head (unfortunately).

I posted this yesterday:

Next is my opinion, and it's a scenario I personally do not want to happen but in theory could:

Jeb Bush: IMO, it's a very real possibility he could get the nomination. Why? With Mike Pence not running and IMO Sarah Palin not running, I don't see “that” candidate out there. No one that ran in 2008 should run again - why should they - are they better now? So in a split and fractured primary I can see a “drafted” Jeb Bush getting the nomination. Why? Love it or hate it, he has the name and can raise oodles of money quick and he's Catholic with a Hispanic wife. Would he win? As bad as the “Bush” name is, it's better than “Obama” by a country mile.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2669703/posts?page=73#73

65 posted on 02/08/2011 11:25:33 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (RomneyCare is Mitt`s Chappaquiddick)
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To: kingattax

The democraps would love that. Obeeeee is an agitator and 4 years is way too much already. I don’t think lierinchief could win again but Bush needs to take up golf. We sure don’t need him.


66 posted on 02/08/2011 11:25:33 AM PST by Pit1 (Remember Ft Hood, even though obeeeee thinks it never happened. God bless our brave warriors.)
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To: kingattax
Three Bushes is too many.
67 posted on 02/08/2011 11:26:05 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
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To: kingattax

Let me tie this into one of the most important issues facing us today.
This is NOT off-topic and the connection will be found in point 3 near the bottom of my post.

As early as 1982, when he was my representative, I was a regular at Newt’s Town Hall Meetings where I spoke in support of the Fair Tax. 70% or more of the others who took the microphone were visibly ANGRY ABOUT THE FAILURE TO STOP THE GROWING FLOW OF ILLEGALS! (While he DID and probably still DOES support the illegal invasion, at several sessions – clearly pandering to the crowd — Newt suggested the 100,000 IRS agents be given weapons and sent down to the border with Mexico.) That certainly works for me.

Under Bush, that flow became a TORRENT! Because Obozo – who takes his orders from George Soros — has OTHER reasons for overwhelming the system (can you say “Cloward and Pivin?), the torrent has become a flood.

For different reasons, neither Bush nor Obozo give a damn WHAT we thought!

DO TRY TO HOLD THAT THOUGHT OVER THE TRADITIONAL 20 NANOSECONDS AND RETAIN IT THROUGH THE NEXT ELECTION CYCLE.

In ABSTRACT terms, this is the conspiratorial view of what’s going on vis-à-vis the INVASION of the illegals here:

The current alien invasion from the south serves BOTH the elites who run Mexico – and many of the OTHER states of Central and South America — and the political ruling class who increasingly run the United States:

· It takes pressure off the 60 or so families who control approximately 80% of the wealth in Mexico. Without the northern “safety valve” (the United States) for their poor, those poor MIGHT be inclined to do what America’s early colonists found it necessary to do: Revolt! Parenthetically, that would be MY suggestion for them: Instead of fleeing here – and converting “here” to a larger, more poverty infested version of “there,” they ought to stay there and make “there” into their version of “here,” whatever that would be. Revolutions ARE messy and there are no guarantees that they will produce the desired result. But – according to one T. Jefferson – they are often necessary. Never forget that THIS country was born in revolution!
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson
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· For the NAFTA/CAFTA coveting US national ruling class – especially those who, in varying degrees, quest after some sort of One-World utopia run by guess who? – it provides yet another level of insecurity and tension among the indigenous populace which can be used to justify new and more draconian limits to freedom here. Instead of securing the borders, allow millions of illegals to come in and when the natives become alarmed, require a national ID card. “Your papers, please!” will soon become a phrase familiar to all. It’s Mr. Franklin’s trade of freedom for (false) security. It’s also the time-tested Hegelian Dialectic the One-Worlders have successfully worked like a rented mule.

While they occasionally squabble among themselves, the elites of history have ALL had one thing in common: They will do ANYTHING to remain in charge. And throughout that history, except for the 230 year-old experiment in freedom called “America,” most of the men who have walked the earth have lived as slaves to these elites whether they call themselves kings, emperors, potentates, sultans, czars – or presidents.

Get ready, folks. Unless some SERIOUS changes are made and the handful of Americans who CARE about liberty get involved, that history will almost certainly repeat here.

Now for the SPECIFICS of the matter:

My take on Bush’s role in all of this was:
1. His long and apparently positive experience with the large hispanic population in Texas is largely responsible for his inaction on this alien invasion. And why wouldn’t HIS experience with them be positive as he traveled in the highest, best-educated circles among them, not the Hispanic gang bangers and pine-straw spreaders...
2. Boy Jorge Bush was cared for by his Hispanic nanny for many years while his daddy was running Zapata Oil (into the ground).
3. His brother Jeb is married to a native of Mexico (the daughter of a migrant worker) and his nieces and nephews are mixed blood. And before you scream “ethnocentric bigot” at me, there’s nothing inherently wrong with that. But that fact — and items 1 and 2 – DO predispose him to a warm and fuzzy feeling for folks from south of the Rio Grande.

And if — in some strange and metastasizing American desire for a new royal family dynasty — Jeb or his son should win the White House in some future presidential beauty contest designed to divert the American electorate every four years, I’d bet that HIS activities toward this alien invasion will make W look like an isolationist.

Any vestige of European culture — the culture MY great-grandparents and probably yours brought here after standing in line at places like Ellis Island, being interrogated, deloused and recorded — will be a distant memory – IF it’s remembered at all.


68 posted on 02/08/2011 11:26:10 AM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: kingattax
... Jeb Bush continues to insist that he will not be a candidate for president in 2012, ...

I enthusiastically support him in that decision.

69 posted on 02/08/2011 11:26:10 AM PST by RobinOfKingston (An election is not a (national) suicide pact.)
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To: kingattax

Never again!!!!!!!

That family has poor politicians that have helped wreck America.


70 posted on 02/08/2011 11:28:11 AM PST by Finalapproach29er (God humbles and (if need be) destroys the false idols of the peoples. Be patient, folks...)
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To: kingattax

NO


71 posted on 02/08/2011 11:28:48 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: kingattax

NO! And HELL NO!


72 posted on 02/08/2011 11:29:04 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Vigilanteman

If National Review moved from the northeast to Texas or Oklahoma (or even my home state of Arizona), it might be worth reading. The heart of conservatism isn’t found in the NYC/DC beast.


73 posted on 02/08/2011 11:29:28 AM PST by Mr Rogers (Poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better still)
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To: kingattax
Chorus grows for 2012 Jeb Bush White House run

Someone must've taught some pigs to sing.

♫ "Jeb in 2012! Jeb in 2012!" ♫

74 posted on 02/08/2011 11:30:26 AM PST by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: Dick Bachert
And before you scream “ethnocentric bigot” at me, there’s nothing inherently wrong with that.

It is indeed sad that pointing out someone's possible biases has been so successfully conflated with bigotry - whatever the bias or issue.
75 posted on 02/08/2011 11:30:47 AM PST by beezdotcom
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To: kevkrom

They (the elites). Are throwing anyone they can find against the wall to see what sticks.


76 posted on 02/08/2011 11:31:39 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: kingattax

This is so ridiculous, it’s almost funny.


77 posted on 02/08/2011 11:32:15 AM PST by Reagan69 (I went to a shooting-victims' memorial service and all I got was a lousy T-shirt !)
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Correction:

The sounds of raspberries grow at prospect of 2012 Jeb Bush White House run

Please God... make it stop!

The last thing this nation needs is another dumb ass Bush in the White House, and don’t try triangulations with Obama in the mix. That dog won’t hunt any longer.

We can do far better than drawing from the Bush family once again.

I will never vote for another Bush. End of story.


78 posted on 02/08/2011 11:32:39 AM PST by DoughtyOne (All hail the Kenyan Prince Obama, Lord of the Skid-mark, constantly soiling himself and our nation.)
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To: Dick Bachert

I’d emphasize the bit about Jeb’s son - the family has big plans for that kid. After all the Bushes are destined to rule.


79 posted on 02/08/2011 11:32:39 AM PST by skeeter
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To: kingattax

Yea, because the last two Bush Presidents didn’t quite kill the GOP.

One more chance at it though.


80 posted on 02/08/2011 11:33:49 AM PST by Reagan69 (I went to a shooting-victims' memorial service and all I got was a lousy T-shirt !)
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