Posted on 03/11/2005 9:04:10 PM PST by Coastal
WASHINGTON -- Nationally prominent Republicans are talking to each other about the possibility of getting Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to accept the vice-presidential nomination in 2008 since he has ruled out running for president that year.
Bush probably would be the front-runner for the party's next presidential nomination if he only had a different last name. GOP politicians agree that five Bush presidential nominations out of the last six campaigns would be one too many for the country to take. But second place on the ticket might be acceptable to voters.
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Rice/Bush?
Gingrich/Bush?
McCain/Bush????????
Tommy Franks/Jeb Bush
I'd like to see either:
Sanford/Bush
Pawlenty/Bush
Pence/Bush
Owens/Bush
Allen/Bush
If Jeb is anything like his brother I don't think we can afford the bill.
If Jeb wants to run, he should run. Let we the voters decide if he should be President, or not.
You will never see a Bush on a ticket with a McCain.
I like girls. Especially the smart, experienced and very savvy ones like:
Elizabeth Dole/Connie Rice
That'll get my vote.
1. He's a governor of a very populous state.
2. He is well-liked and quite popular.
3. He speaks Spanish fluently, which means he can easily court the increasingly powerful Hispanic vote.
That type of credentials is a major winning combination that is very hard to beat. 
Not unless he saves Terri!!
Elizabeth Dole could not beat the wicked witch from New York, er..Illinois..er...Arkansas. Condi will take the Republican vote, the anti-Hillary vote, and deprive Hillary of the Dems "take-them-for-granted black American vote".
Hillary will counter with Congressman Harold Ford as VP...or an outside chance of that stellar Sec. of Energy, Clinton apologist turned Governor, Bill Richardson.
Condi won't pick Jeb - wouldn't be prudent -- but instead will look to Senator Santorum to shore up her conservative credentials, and lock up Pennsylvania which, as we have found out is an essential electoral collegel state.
There you have it - the definitive 2008 inside scoop.
=== GOP politicians agree that five Bush presidential nominations out of the last six campaigns would be one too many for the country to take.
lol ... I bet it sounds sweet to the Stoopid Party, though.
If ever there were a Bush slated to play Bob Dole for a year, it would have to be the Catholic Jeb whose idea of "election crisis" action is recusal.
If Elizabeth continues to play the moping wallflower, I'll agree with your assessment. If she starts to talk and work the crowd, I'm back to my original lineup. All you've got to do is have the wicked witch and my ole southern gal side by side, listen to them speak, watch them dance, and poor old Hillary won't know what hit her.
Now that Bob "Both Sides of the Aisle" Dole appears FINALLY to have retired from running for Presidnet and is busily feting the likes of Clinton at his institute, who will send the message for the GOP from now on that they're handing the White House back this go-round and there's no point in voting?
Every single ticket since 1980 has had a Bush on it, except 1996.
Elizabeth Dole was either too incompentent or too compromised to EVER even mention the fact one Bill Clinton had been definitively proven to have been the source for tainted prison plasma which infected countless recipients of various blood derivatives fractionated in Canada.
She sat on the story through two election cycles, leaving the party to prattle about bimbo eruptions instead of the bad blood which might have blown a hole in one of his most shrill constituencies ... the Log Cabin sorts the GOP's been courting in earnest since 2000.
None of those three frontrunners will do for me.
Quayle/Bush
He has done all he can to dampen expections of his candidacy, and that would be a wrap.
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