Republicans Must Be a National Party

WSJ Opinion Journal ^ | February 14, 2009 | Fred Barnes

[Jim Noble]

Opening salvo in the Bush 2012 campaign. Chest pounders and mob leaders jump in...

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

No Bushes in 2012! Scorched earth if we have to!

[NavVet]

No Amnesty Pandering RINOS PLEEEEAAASE!

[Diogenesis]

[SolidWood]

Dead in the tracks. A total nonstarter. There won’t be any Bush President’s in the next 100 years. Rightly so. We are a Republic and have no need for dynasties.

[David1]

He was not the first democrat to win Florida since 1976. BJ won Florida in 1996.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I would never vote for Jeb Bush. He disgraced himself during the Schiavo affair. A night watchman at a bakery has bigger ones.

[Altura Ct.]

Fred Barnes, Jeb Bush & John McCain.

The epitome of what is wrong with the stupid party.

[kindred]

As a conservative individual, the republican party has abandoned conservative principles and most noticably their own conservative platform. Like fools, they continue to try to make liberal policies and principles their new way and that is just evil.
Evil is as evil does, and the GOP is now liveral as the communist democrats and will get worse and worse. Their is no cure for evil but the judgement of God and that is come.
The gop is dead.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Exactly how many independents were in the Senate trying to fight this scamulus?

Exactly how many independents were in the House voting against the scamulus?

Cut and Run? That leaves valuable real estate to brand-name hijackers. Don’t even go there.

[Vaquero]

no more Bushes, no more, not ever!!!!

America is all RINO’d out....please, go back to Texas or Florida or Connecticut or where ever the RINOs go.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Let’s start being The Party of Integrity and bless ourselves instead of using that loathesome negative talk.

Deeds more than words to describe us—and describe ourselves as we should be not at our worst.

Focus on the solution, not the problem.

[omega4179]

No more Bushes! look that the last one left for a GOP , a 3.5 trillion Porkulus package rammed through.

[jla]

Excellent article. Jeb Bush thinks broadly and innovatively, yet he needs to expound on exactly how he would reform immigration. He seems to demonize the "chest pounders", a group who merely seek to have the laws of this land enforced. As if that were somehow undesirable, or sinful.
He did this with his assessment of our education system vis a vis that of Sweden.

The Kindle book reader. How do these devices work? Do you download books for a price, akin to something like iTunes for an iPod?

[Mr. K]

PLEASE NOT *ANOTHER* BUSH RINO

W AND HIS FATHER *BOTH*SIGNED THE BIGGEST GOVERNMENT MONEY HOAXES IN HISTORY

THEY ARE TOO STUPID TO STICK TO CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES WHEN PRESSURED BY DEMOCRAPS

[niteowl77]

Jeb makes a lousy grassroots Republican, but then so would most of the big chunks floating at the top of the GOP septic tank. I do think he makes a dynamite moderate Democrat though.

So does Fred Barnes.

Mr. niteowl77

[nonliberal]

I will never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever vote for another Bush.

[GQuagmire]

"It's "possible," he says, that he'll never run again -- for anything. That includes the presidency in 2012."

'12 maybe not. In '16 absolutely. Notice in the article talking about past and present GOP governors no mention of Sarah Palin? The GOP "elite" do not want her in the national arena as much as the Dems.

[Kakaze]

"I would never want Obama to go through what my brother went through.... But it's not right for our country, it's not going to help us, and it's not going to help Republicans."

Don't worry, your pretty little head Jeb, it will be in the end much worse for B. Hussein

Obama's first terrorist attack was coordinated by himself , Pelosi and Reid, their collective actions and those that voted for it are nothing short of treason.

The muslims will attack us again and it will be a damn hard hit, Mexico is on the brink of dissolution, if not revolution........

It will not be a pretty 4 years for Obama, for the rest of us it will be a nightmare.

Perhaps Jeb you should be more worried about the country, than the legacy or treatment of an out right socialist, hell bent on destroying the country your father went to war for.

[Cedric]

What the hell does a candidate’s last name have to do with his qualifications?