Posted on 12/01/2009 8:51:22 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Jeb Bush is unique in that he is both unknown and known. He can certainly win a GOP primary, and can raise the money to compete with frontrunners Palin and Romney. I think Jeb will be getting more involved over the next several months, starting with the Florida senate primary. I also think Cheney is a Jeb proxy, and that his attacks are meant to undermine Obama while moving the country back into the Bush/Cheney policy direction, awaiting a new leader to take the torch from the former Vice President. Remember, Cheney earlier this year, unprompted, suggested he would support Jeb Bush for president in 2012. Considering that there are significant people in the party harping about a Cheney run, as well as a media fascination with such a run, coupled with the realty that a 71 year old with a bad heart simply will not run, opens the door to Jeb Bush taking up the mantle in 2012. Bush would fill that media desire to clash Obama with Cheney, only enhancing it.
With Huckabee and Palin potentially sitting out in 2012, there is a huge opening for someone to take up the anti-Romney position. Bush, with his vast network of connections, his organizing potential, and the generation of political chits collected by the Bush family, puts Jeb in as good a position as a Pawlenty or a Daniels to make a bid and challenge Romney. Now if Palin runs, and the field fills up, then Jeb will likely wait until 2016, or simply stay out of public life and let his son, George P. Bush (nicknamed 47 by the family) take up the presidential legacy down the line.
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“They share the same core principles”
I would hope not.
If you want to work the system better know what the system is. It still matters that the North won the civil war, and that the North exploited the Continent in a particular way and amassed huge fortunes that enabled them to rule the country. They are our nobility. They think they are entitled to rule. Now they are in the process of turning Washington DC, into an American version of Paris, where both economic and political power are centralized. The place means a something than it did in, say. 1963, when Lyndon Johnson became president, and an out-of-towner could drive around the city more easily than he could Austin, today, , today and it was hard to find a motel room when Congress was in session. As the wealth of the Northeast relative to the rest of the country has decreased, the more the desire to control things has increased.
Don’t forget that Paul Bunyan who lives in her house. He could handle any two of us.
“It ain’t cryin’ — it is pointing out that you and your ilk gave us this commie and you are responsible for all he does.”
The news media and John Traitor McCain gave us this commie with some major help from George W. Bush.
McCain threw the damn election. Stop blaming Conservatives for Republican failures, idiocy, and leftism.
Pawlenty has been a big Cap & Trade guy for many years. He went so far as to champion his own regional Cap & Trade plan.
No Thanks!
Since RWR left office, just exactly when have we had a pubbie candidate who even approached MEDIOCRE? Oh, sure, we had Ron Paul in the primaries last year and I re-registered pubbie so I could vote for him, but in the General? No way, Jose.
No, NO MORE SHRUBS or bushes or trees. Never again in the history of this nation. Bushes aren’t anywhere close to the first five percent on the bottom of the scale. NEVER AGAIN.
Agreed.
“Jeb is no Rino you moron.
Jeb Bush “ I am a headbanging conservative””
Jeb is an out and out liberal.
Having absolute values is a whole lot better than having NO values, thank you very much. You may want to parade your lack of ethics, values and mores, but SOMEONE has to be able to say, “No, this is EVIL and I will NOT participate.” Just not you, though, right? You’re all about party over principles.
You confuse vetting with the final result. Once you have done all you can to ensure a True Conservative as the candidate, then it is time to put on your big boy pants and do what makes sense, not what makes your n^ts warm. This is what is Grown Ups call “compromise.”
I don’t agree with you on this. If that was the case than what you are saying is that we should have stood with the Republican in NY-23. There is no way we could support her. Would you have?
I far prefer that to givig liberals control of both parties.
And "Grown Up" Republicans have just about "compromised" us into full blown federal control over every minute aspect of our lives and first claim on every penny we labor to bring home.
I voted for Sarah Palin in 2008 in spite of John McCain.
If Republicans run another "reach across the aisle and rest his head in Teddy Kennedy's lap" McCain type rino, they better hope for a good turnout from the mushy moderates, because Conservatives like me have had enough of their "compromising".
No, dumbass, you don’t get away with that. The electorate, when presented with a clear choice (Reagan or Jimmy the Weasel) gave RWR an overwhelming mandate. When presented with socialism lite (R) vs. full-blown socialism (D), they go with the real thing. THAT is reality and your whiny, blame the folks with true principles approach, no matter how you stomp your little feet and piss and moan, ain’t gonna cut it anymore. So you can crawl back under your rock and let the GROWN UPS find a candidate that has actual VALUES and put that person up against the Zero. I promise you, with a CLEAR CHOICE, the American People will do the right thing. Your way, there is NEVER a clear choice and never a Pubbie victory (and deservedly so, after what Bush and his Pubbie Congress did to us!)!
(Oh, and your party, try as it might, is NOT going to gain control over the Tea Partiers. THAT is so DEAD, it’ll never recover. Put CONSERVATIVES on the ballot and see what happens. It’s NOT party uber alles, never again!)
Ditto. The USA does not embrace royalty. If Jeb Bush ran against Hillary Clinton, I would sit out and let Hitlery win. That is how adamant I am in that no Bush will ever be president again. It was bad enough to have 2 Adamses.
If the Bushes want to start a royal dynasty, let them find a new country and do so.
Agreed.
And why might it pass? Because of the Snowey rino in Maine "compromising" and that is exactly what you seem to want at the presidential level for Republicans.
No Thanks!
>>You’re all about party over principles<<
Nope — results over stupidity.
Mike and John who??? People have some knowledge for who Jeb Bush is. No candidate without name recognition has ever won a national election for the GOP.
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