Rove: Jeb Bush 'Smartest Guy, Biggest Thinker' in GOP

Newsmax ^ | 5/22/13 | Todd Beamon and Kathleen Walter

[MissTed]

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is “the smartest guy, the biggest thinker” in the Republican Party as it looks toward winning the White House in 2016, GOP strategist Karl Rove tells Newsmax TV.

“Six months ago, I would have said, ‘No, he's not going to run,’” Rove tells Newsmax in an exclusive interview. “But maybe he is. I certainly hope he keeps a very strong voice.”

[turducken]

The GOP is seriously headed the way of the Whigs

[rlmorel]

Not Jeb Bush.

Bill Whittle.

[SoFloFreeper]

Bobby Jindal? I dunno....ever since I learned Karl Rove is an atheist, I have been dismayed about his advice.

I think he looks at politics as a game more than a true struggle for our God given rights.

[vette6387]

“No. Not another easily duped “nice guy.” Gimmie a street brawler, please.”

How about Ted or Trey?

[Fast Moving Angel]

[NormsRevenge]

The Onion Lives..

Does he have a chair at the Bush Thanksgiving table every year?

[MissTed]

LOL! Perfect!

[Psiman]

Jeb Bush? Now that’s funny - thanks for the laff.

[Irenic]

Oh no they don’t! Pizz off, go away Bush...no more! NO more!

[Albion Wilde]

What will it take to get this coat tail rider to go away?

Karl, please follow the excellent example of your former mentor Dubya and just stay out of it. This is not American Bandstand and you are not a pop culture promoter.

[Wuli]

I have a plan - IGNORE ROVE!!!!

[itsahoot]

How soon we forget.

[itsahoot]

But the leftist illuminati have succeeded in Borking W...and his father,for that matter.

I don't know how you could think that, since they belong to that group, born and bred.

[LibertarianLiz]

If Karl Rove is supporting him (or anyone else), I’m against them.

[billhilly]

Chicago Cubs fans are more loyal than freepers.

[Finny]

Rove is built so low that the fast ones just sail over his head.

He has zero clue as to why Romney lost.

[9YearLurker]

Ha ha.

[Still Thinking]

I'll say one thing for George W. Bush: He's a better man than Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton, and he's smarter than Carter. Not much, but that's it.

Carter wasn't dumb, in a technical sense. The guy was a nuke on subs, for gosh sake. He just had crap values and no nose for what was a good or bad idea at the national policy level. And then there was Roslyn (President and MR. Carter, as my dad used to describe them).

[Finny]

Zu says,"LOOK at these demons involved in the IRS scam. They were appointed by BUSH!!!!.......ROBERTS was appointed by BUSH!!" and PNSN points out: "BUT working under Zero's corrupt administration."

Obama is a symptom. He's a symptom the way Stalin was, the way Marx was, the way Mao was. He's the symptoms of a minority powering and forcing and brutalizing its way to control over a majority.

For America, the answer lies in a political, philosophical coalition (and necessarily enforcement of the integrity of the voting franchise). That coalition should be between libertarians and conservatives including social conservatives, as the libertarian principle of limited government is the best protector of people's freedom to live morally, which government is progressively robbing and quashing.

It does this insidiously. Government prohbits Americans from living their own inner choice of morality, from not being able to tell the gay guys who want to get into your kids' Boy Scouts club to take a hike, to being forced to pay for abortion and slothful lifestyles (those "helping hand" EBT cards can be spent on Slurpies or Coke at the 7-11, I'll bet) as "charity" via government taxes that fund hand-outs and subsidy to the "deserving" among us ... said deserving also voting. That is a travesty and fairness dictates that it halt.

Social conservatives and libertarians agree in the government hands-off principle regarding personal morality, including all the temptations. Social conservatives think libertarians are all and only about having the freedom to sin!!! (marijuana, gambling, prostitution!). Maybe the stupid ones are, but the reality is that Christian morality is best defended and protected by subscribing to the libertarian ethic, of "Government, hands off!"

Only one example of many: The whole gay agenda is based on "Government, hands on!" Gay "rights" means government telling adoption agencies they have to cooperate with gay men. Government today punishes Americans who want to live the Christian ethic. The libertarian take is to let the ones who want to cater to unmarried couples co-habitating, gay couples, or whatever -- go ahead. THE SAME PHILOSOPHY says that we Christians could discriminate against or for or ambivalent, in business choices, landlord, employment, education, kids civic groupls, wedding photographers, etc. -- as God gives us freedom to do. The Judeo Christian ethic is powerful and ancient and strong. The most effective so far.

Libertarians and political and social conservatives need to coalesce.

[AngelesCrestHighway]