Posted on 05/11/2010 7:01:40 PM PDT by TitansAFC
The Buzz gets quite a few interesting 2012 thoughts from Jim DeMint that go with his new role as something of a self-appointed kingmaker.
On the 2012 presidential race: "I hope I can be part of finding a president who's got some real substance and managerial skills, but I don't even want to think about that until after 2010. I think we'll see some of the potential candidates deal with this tension within the Republican party and we're looking for ones that come down on the right side."
Romney, his candidate in 2008: "People are going to be looking for a grownup next that's accomplished things in life, and I think Mitt is going to be in that mix. But he is attached to the Massachussetts health plan to some degree and I think that's a liability....Some of us were talking about Mitch Daniels this morning. He's proved he can manage a state and make some hard decisions, so I think that 2012 might not be the year of charisma, it might be the year of real leadership and management."
Jeb Bush? "He would be a great president. He'd probably be the best on the list, if he didn't have the Bush name. It may not work in 2012, although the longer Obama is in office the better the Bush name looks. Maybe not in 2012 - you know, maybe I shouldn't say that. Jeb Bush has been very bold, and principled, and you never know. If he is interested, I'd sure be interested in talking to him."
1. Jeb Bush—Florida
Winding up his second term as governor, Bush has signed a tax cut of some kind almost every year he has been in office—from slashing property to intangibles taxes—and not trimmed his pro-life, pro-voucher sails, although his refusal to permit natural gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico has upset many conservatives. He would be an obvious Republican presidential possibility in ’08 were he not following his father and brother.
DeMint is correct in that, of that family, certainly Jeb is the most Conservative of the lot — but that ain’t sayin’ much. He may yet run — but I won’t support him. He is pro-illegal immigration/amnesty. And if DeMint (my Senator, by the way) did support him, it would hurt him in the long run. DeMint is far more Conservative than ANY of the Bush family.
Yup, This is one place I cn finally say I agree with Jesse Jackson, “Stay out da Bushes!”
A Bush by any other name is still a Bush.
The guy is an amnesty maniac.
No more Bushes.
DeMint still likes Mitt, only this time DeMint knows that he can't get away with supporting somebody who supported government run health-care.
DeMint was pushing Romney last time, now Bush. What gives? One more endorsement like this, and he’s done in my books.
Not gonna happen.
Too many people think Bush played a big role getting us into the abyss.
But it's one of history's great question marks whether Jeb would have landed us where we got to in 2008 if he'd been President.
Probably he would have been more on top of the budget than his brother was. Jeb might have been a very impressive president indeed, but that's all what might have been, not what can still happen.
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