A shame, really. Jeb was a good governor. Now... not a chance.
Posted on 04/21/2014 7:34:32 AM PDT by cotton1706
There is a rule in American politics: Hope and optimism nearly always defeat fear and pessimism.
The Republican Party faces a long-term challenge in presidential elections because it is defining itself as a gloomy enclave, a collection of pessimists who fear what our country is becoming and where it is going.
The party’s hope deficit helps explain why there’s a boomlet for Jeb Bush, a man who dares to use the word “love” in a paragraph about illegal immigrants.
The flurry doesn’t mean that the former Florida governor is even running for president, let alone that he can win. But Bush is being taken seriously because his approach to politics is so different from what’s on offer from doomsayers who worry that immigrants will undermine the meaning of being American and that the champions of permissiveness will hack away at our moral core.
No wonder Bush’s statement that immigrants entering the country illegally were engaged in “an act of love” was greeted with such disdain by Donald Trump and other Republicans gathered at last weekend’s Freedom Summit in New Hampshire.
Let’s stipulate that people oppose immigration reform for a variety of reasons. Some see any form of amnesty as a reward for breaking the law. Others believe the country would be better off if the flow of future immigrants tilted more toward the affluent and skilled. Still others worry that immigration pushes wages down.
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I need to remove myself from the Republican Party....they have left me.
When E. J. Dionne promotes a GOP candidate, you know that candidate is an empty suit, suitable for shafting by the Socialist Democrats. Pathetic.
No more dynasties. No Clintons, not another Kennedy, nor a Bush.
Another false flag operation supported by EJ Dionne and sponsored by the DNC...
More unsolicited advice from a lib….on how to “save” the Republican Party. Thanks EJ…..not.
If I wasn’t already opposed to the Bush neo-aristocracy, E.J. Dionne’s endorsement of Jebbie would certainly settle the issue. No more Bushes!
correction
E.J. Dionne: Jeb Bush’s optimism is something the GOP needs democrats need
There, fixed the it.
Lisping leftist to the rescue of the RINO Stupid Party. Ford > Dole > McCain > Romney > Jeb Bush. Makes perfect sense.
It’s time for the liberal media to be told to back of trying to tell us who we should run for office. Whatever their agenda is, it is not for the good of the United States or its citizens.
A shame, really. Jeb was a good governor. Now... not a chance.
Sarah Palin.
Just saying...
Yeah, well, that may very well be.
In the meantime, we are picking up Governorships, Statehouses and local offices from coast to coast and from sea to shining sea.
“There is a rule in American politics: Hope and optimism nearly always defeat fear and pessimism.”
Unless you are a liberal. Then you beat your opponents over the head with it at every opportunity to further your agenda.
I’ve had enough “Hope and Change” these past 5 years.
HEY, e.j.dionne!
What We need is a REAL option NOT “optimism” you STUPID SHILL!!!!
And what the “gop” needs is A STEEL TOE BOOT IN THE A$$!!!
This once again proves that the ONLY reason the human race has survived is because of procreation because there are way too many STUPID humans out there.
/disgust
They gave us McCain the same way. EJ and his brethren like to build up the weakest GOP candidate as the only one who can beat the Dem. Once nominated, they then proceed to destroy him. Old playbook, same result.
Some of us were pushed out years ago by Bush Sr.
Wiki-
"Eugene Joseph "E. J." Dionne, Jr. is an American journalist and political commentator, and a long-time op-ed columnist for The Washington Post. He is also a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, a University Professor in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown Public Policy Institute, a Senior Research Fellow at Saint Anselm College, and an NPR, MSNBC, and PBS commentator.
Dionne was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 23, 1952. He is the son of the late Lucienne (née Galipeau), a librarian and teacher, and Eugene J. Dionne, a dentist, and was raised in Fall River, Massachusetts. He is of French-Canadian descent. He attended Portsmouth Abbey School, (then known as Portsmouth Priory), a Benedictine college preparatory school in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Dionne holds a BA in social studies from Harvard University (1973), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was affiliated with Adams House, and a D.Phil. in sociology from Balliol College, Oxford (1982), where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
Dionne's published works include the influential 1991 bestseller Why Americans Hate Politics, which argued that several decades of political polarization was alienating a silent centrist majority. It was characterized as radical centrist by Time magazine. Later books include They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era (1996), Stand up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and Politics of Revenge (2004), Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right (2008), and Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent (2012).
Dionne is a columnist for Commonweal, a liberal Catholic publication. Before becoming a columnist for the Post in 1993, he worked as a reporter for that paper as well as The New York Times. He has recently joined the left-liberal The National Memo news-politics website."
E.J. Dionne: Okay, GOP. Here's what you need to do to win...
Why would the GOP listen to him? Easy. He's Ruling Class. Any Ruling Class opinion outranks any Country Class opinion. Why would he like Jeb Bush? Easy. Jeb Bush is also Ruling Class.
No one needs Jughead Bush for anything at all.
EJ Dionne is the pusiefied face of liberalism at it finest
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