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.”

[presently no screen name]

Oh Puleeeze!!!! Nobody wants Jeb Bush for President.

And WHO wanted Romney? Anyone the GOP stands behind will have the most money and support of the media - and voters will AGAIN be suckered in while Jeb's GOP opponent will allowed to be trashed with NO support of all the GOP's ilk.

And for the sake of 'winning' the fearful voter will succumb once again. Voters don't even have the backbone they 'expect' from the politicians.

[Polyxene]

The RATs have CDS (Clinton Derangement Syndrome)
The Pachyderms (GOP) have BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome)

Liberalism truly IS a mental disorder, and it has infected both parties.

[presently no screen name]

Is your ‘NO’ a ‘Yes’?

[righttackle44]

And so it begins should be outlawed as a phrase for thinking people.

[Resolute Conservative]

I just threw up in my mouth a little.

[HomeAtLast]

“the smartest guy, the biggest thinker”

until you set him alongside a handicapped, innocent, defenseless woman.

[presently no screen name]

Rove’s “management” of Bush’s message, or lack thereof, led directly to Obama.

No one has said it better than you did. Thanks!

[MissTed]

Exactly. Ask President's Dole, McCain & Romney how well running as a moderate worked out for them.

[Resolute Conservative]

Sean Vannity is no more a conservative than than Jeb is.

[Graewoulf]

Did you know that GWB commonly called Rove by his nickname: “Turd Blossom?” (Look up the threads in the FR Archives).

BTW, let us assume, for the sake of discussion, that Jeb Bush really IS the “smartest guy, AND the biggest thinker” today in the GOP.

Ponder- - - , ponder - - - , ponder.

Okay! Time is up!

What does Rove’s assertion tell us about the relevant brain-power in the GOP today?

[pallis]

If Jeb is as smart as Rove claims, he will find a way to be useful and powerful in the GOP without running for president.

[grumpygresh]

Globalist-lite.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I have a lot of conservative friends and no one that I know is hoping for another Bush to run.

The probably weren't hoping for the second or the first, either.

[DoughtyOne]

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

Translation: Jeb Bush isn't all that smart, and he's the Republican's smallest thinker.

[DoughtyOne]

Does it count if I adopted that policy over a decade ago?

[popdonnelly]

How does Mr. Smart Guy feel about Benghazi, the IRS harassing conservative groups, the Justice Department looking at journalists’ phone records, amnesty for illegal aliens, the growing deficit, raising taxes, etc.?

[Tanniker Smith]

Then he should have run in 2000 instead of his brother.

[popdonnelly]

“Why does anyone talk to Rove about anything....”

To find out if the GOP is going to carry Ohio.

[Gay State Conservative]

Even if this is true the simple fact is that the Bush “brand” has been too badly damaged to rehabilitate it.Bush the Elder,apart from “read my lip” was a good...very good...President.Bush the Younger,certainly far from perfect,was just as certainly far better that either of his opponents would have been.But the leftist illuminati have succeeded in Borking W...and his father,for that matter.