Posted on 06/02/2006 8:01:07 PM PDT by FairOpinion
IF ONLY HIS LAST NAME WERE SMITH. He'd not only attract national attention as the popular and successful governor of a difficult-to-govern state. He'd be viewed sympathetically as a leader who had dealt with family issues--his wife's aversion to politics, his daughter's bouts with drug addiction--without losing his grip on the governorship. And he'd be the prohibitive frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.
But his last name is Bush. So Jeb Bush, nearing the end of his eight years as governor of Florida, has to settle for being the best governor in America. Not proclaimed the best governor by the media and the political community. But recognized as the best by a smaller group: governors who served with him and experts and think-tank and conservative policy wonks who regard state government as something other than a machine for taxing and spending.
Why is Jeb Bush the best? It's very simple. His record is the best. No other governor, Republican or Democrat, comes close. Donna Arduin, perhaps the most respected state budget expert in the country, has worked for four big-state Republican governors--John Engler of Michigan, George Pataki of New York, Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, and Bush. Even while she worked for Schwarzenegger, she told me Bush is "absolutely" the nation's premier governor. "He's principled, brilliant, willing to ignore his pollsters, and say no to his friends," she says.
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Will a governor that has difficulty getting the attention of his state legislators have trouble with US ones?
"Why is Jeb Bush the best? It's very simple. His record is the best."
He stood tall and threw people off their private property in the Everglades and gave that land to snakes, alligators and leeches. What a record!!!
If he had another term, he could force people out of their homes in small towns and into tiny apartments in the big cities meant for gerbils. What a guy!!!
Then he could call his one world masters and ask how he might destroy other individual property rights. Hoorah for Jeb!!!
When it comes down to the individual and his rights in private property, George Bush is a patriot and Jeb is a Marxist land thief.
who knows, but making and changing law isn't his job. Same goes for the President.
Actually, the comparison was clearly between "governors:" Bush and Pilate.
Certainly, however, Jesus and Terri Schiavo share the common experience of having been unjustly condemned and executed.
Because the lunatics are running the asylum, you see.
Yeah, Florida's a great place to raise a family.
Where are you raising your children???
Sounds like you are one of the two people unemployed in our great state.
What did YOU do? Did YOU get arrested?
All hat and no cattle you are...
Oh, dear, another poll being cited to support our favorite viewpoint!
I understand that but what is the President trying to do right now? Get congress to give him an immigration bill? They can't make laws but they sure know who can.
No hat. The governor had the hat.
I bet if a liberal wins the WH in '08, and the Dems win Congress - the Bush years will be hailed as the Golden Age.
Which brings the point that a moderate like GW is infinitely preferable to a liberal. Yes, there's a lot of frustration with him, but it is good frustration. It isn't likely that GW will do anything that will get us all killed. A liberal, on the other hand, will probably do exactly that.
What are you talking about? I haven't passed a strip club in years. Move.
In Schiavo's case, I think he did as much as could have been expected of an officeholder in a state with a republican form of government.
I'll have to agree with you about the immigration issue, though.
umm, so, what does your governor have to do with a secular land boom that began while he was still in college, or an information revolution and inflated money supply that enabled business development that was previously not feasible there?
"It isn't likely that GW will do anything that will get us all killed. A liberal, on the other hand, will probably do exactly that."
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And that is an important point. Libersals are too stupid to think through the consequences of their actions. They think if we just cower in front of the terrorists, they may take pity on us.
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