[Jim Noble]

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

[junta]

Not even this Bush can save liberalism.

[org.whodat]

NO MORE DAMN BUSHES, EVER!!!!!

[org.whodat]

Fred Barnes is a stupid RINO himself, and his running off at the mouth has aways caused more harm than good to the republicans.

[arealconservativeforachange]

The only Bush I want to see near the WH:

[CottonBall]

Republicans must also clean up their act on immigration, Mr. Bush insists. Last year, he says they "set a tone" that pushed Hispanic voters away. "The tone of the debate reached a point that was very damning to the Republican Party, and the evidence is in. The chest pounders lost."....

No, the tone of the RINOs pushed conservatives away. Pandering to a block of voters by supporting those who have broken our laws is what has killed the GOP. (Along with other liberal agenda items they've taken on.)

[Steelfish]

Fred Barnes is irrelevant and he should be kicked off the FoxNews panel. It’s journalists like him who have ruined the RNC. Barnes, a happy retirement to you.

[okie01]

Last year, he says they "set a tone" that pushed Hispanic voters away. "The tone of the debate reached a point that was very damning to the Republican Party, and the evidence is in. The chest pounders lost."....

Jeb should be made to realize that the tone of the debate reached the point that it did because the federal government had pointedly ignored their responsibility for going on twenty years!!!

The gulf between the governed and the government just keeps getting wider...

[SuziQ]

"What comes through when Mr. Bush is asked about education is how radical his views are. He would toss out the traditional K-to-12 scheme in favor of a credit system, like colleges have.

"It's not based on seat time," he says. "It's whether you accomplished the task. Now we're like GM in its heyday of mass production. We don't have a flourishing education system that's customized. There's a whole world out there that didn't exist 10 years ago, which is online learning. We have the ability today to customize learning so we don't cast young people aside."

I love those ideas. There is absolutely NO reason for a teenager to have to stay sitting, bored, in a classroom until they've gotten enough 'seat time'. Let them get the credits, then get out and do some growing up. We drag adolescence out WAY too long in this country, and we've seen lately that the kids get so used to it, that it drags well into their thirties, sometimes.

[ex-snook]

If the GOP hadn't thrown the Reagan Democrats under the bus we would never have had Clinton or Obama. The GOP has aged and they need a hearing aid to hear the sucking sound now being heard by more voters.

SUCKING SOUND - CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

[Clemenza]

He was the first Democrat to win Florida since 1976

WRONG! Bill Clinton won Florida in 1996, and Al Gore would have won Florida had it not been for Clinton's sending Elian back to Cuba.

Obama won Florida thanks to the "housing crisis" that has hit Florida hard, and the Puerto Rican vote in Orange (where Obama won by 10 points) and Osceola counties, to say nothing of high black turnout.

[Clemenza]

That being said, we have basically become the Scots Irish smalltown Protestant party. Our share of the WHITE vote has dropped considerably. We’ll see 1. if Obama screws up enough to drive away white suburbanites and 2. if the GOP actually fields a competant candidate that can both appeal to conservatives (without being a snake handler) and to suburbanites outside of the south as well.

[Will88]

"Politics has to be about ideas and values and aspirations." he says. "It shouldn't be about anger and preying on people's emotions. You can't lead a mob."...

Just another arrogant, elitist member of the Bush family from Connecticut. He also skips right over the fact that the US accepts about 1,200,000 legal immigrants and refugees each year, and jumps right into looking down his nose and insulting anyone who isn't 100% for legalizing 12 - 20 million illegal aliens, then allowing those millions to gradually bring in many millions more through chain migration.

No thanks, Jeb. Your family has already done incalculable damage to the Republican party. And Fred Barnes is a Beltway halfwit.

Stay out 'da Bushes!

[Grunthor]

“Republicans must also clean up their act on immigration, Mr. Bush insists. Last year, he says they “set a tone” that pushed Hispanic voters away.”

I would vote for Barak Hussein Obama before EVER voting for this man.

[Junior_G]

So Jeb Bush equates opposition to illegal immigration with “anger and preying on emotions”. He can go to hell.

[Cacique]

Screw them. GW got us into the mess that got Obama elected. We don’t need another bush. we don’t need the republican party.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Here we go again, more “New Tone” and “reaching out” crapola. Hey Jeb - remember the landslides of 1980, 1984, and 1994? Did we win by compromising?

[yongin]

Bump

[bert]

All this ranting is but irrelevant drivel. What America needs is a conservative leader that will stand up on the trail and verbally destroy Obama et al.

What is lacking is dynamic leadership, nor wonky theory

[HiJinx]

Ping!

[Eagle of Liberty]

I WILL LEAD THE MOB!!!