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Jeb Bush to Help Rebuild GOP
Newsmax ^ | 5/02/09

Posted on 05/03/2009 1:05:44 AM PDT by advance_copy

Republican political figures in recent days announced policy programs to challenge President Barack Obama's agenda and to counter perceptions that the GOP is a listless, leaderless "party of no."

In doing so, they're highlighting their differences with the Republican National Committee's political strategy.

House and Senate Republican lawmakers were the latest to launch a group independent of the RNC, announcing the formation of the National Council for a New America.

The group comprises potential GOP presidential candidates who plan town hall-style meetings to promote ideas different from Obama's. Their aides and allies have been vexed by the lack of comprehensive alternatives put forward by the national Republican leadership.

"One of the things that's constantly stated by the Obama administration spokesman is that the Republicans are the 'party of no,' and that the conservatives don't have ideas," said former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, whose brother, President George W. Bush, many blame for the party's unpopularity. "But conservatives, in general, have not done a great job on putting forward their ideas."

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gop; jebbush; nc4na; ncna; rebuilding
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To: ansel12

According to Wikipedia, Atwater was working for Reagan in 1981.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater


41 posted on 05/03/2009 2:35:37 AM PDT by svxdave (Life is too short to wear a fake Rolex.)
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To: papertyger
Polls tell us one thing, and one thing only: how effective is the media at getting its message across

Read that again it was about a study of polls, not a poll.

42 posted on 05/03/2009 2:37:13 AM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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To: svxdave
Reagan had Lee Atwater

Reagan had Reagan!

43 posted on 05/03/2009 2:38:27 AM PDT by papertyger (Advertising makes journalism an assault weapon.)
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To: svxdave

Do you know anything about Ronald Reagan and conservatism?


44 posted on 05/03/2009 2:39:19 AM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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To: advance_copy

With help like that no one needs enemies!

If that’s the future of thr Republican party, i’m leaving it!!!!


45 posted on 05/03/2009 2:40:30 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: mkjessup
Have you ever considered, that if the Democrats succeed in pushing through amnesty, Jeb Bush (with his Mexican wife) may be the only Republican that could get elected?
46 posted on 05/03/2009 2:40:59 AM PDT by broncobilly
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To: SRJeff

Atwater did not get up from the table leaving the Russians holding their own d—ks!


47 posted on 05/03/2009 2:41:30 AM PDT by papertyger (Advertising makes journalism an assault weapon.)
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To: papertyger

No argument there at all.

What poisoned the well, unfortunately, was the House of Pig Trough having purse-string power after 60 years in the wilderness after 1994. The Next Right, flip a coin, won’t make the same mistakes.


48 posted on 05/03/2009 2:45:12 AM PDT by SRJeff (Another day older and deeper in debt)
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To: ansel12

I know what it was.

It was a quasi-scholastic piece about the validity of poll based claims.


49 posted on 05/03/2009 2:49:09 AM PDT by papertyger (Advertising makes journalism an assault weapon.)
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To: broncobilly

Jeb Bush already demonstrated his lack of spine as Governor.

Terri Schiavo was unavailable for comment.

Enough Bushes, enough Clintons, enough Kennedys. America is not based on some privileged ruling class and it’s time to send those self-appointed elites packing.

We’ve had two failed Bush presidencies, you think “three’s the charm”?

No way, Hosea.


50 posted on 05/03/2009 2:54:20 AM PDT by mkjessup (You're either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU ("The Kenyan Usurper"). CHOOSE!!!)
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To: papertyger

So is post 27 useful? Do you recommend it?


51 posted on 05/03/2009 2:54:36 AM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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To: svxdave

>He can’t rebuild the GOP without fighting back
fighting back?
These losers wouldn’t know fighting back if it bit them on the ass!
Name one of these clowns who went and attended one tea party protest (fighting back)
Just one.


52 posted on 05/03/2009 2:55:07 AM PDT by bill1952 (Power is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: svxdave
According to Wikipedia, Atwater was working for Reagan in 1981.

Thank you. That proves that the Gipper didn't need Atwater to get himself elected in 1980.
53 posted on 05/03/2009 2:56:35 AM PDT by mkjessup (You're either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU ("The Kenyan Usurper"). CHOOSE!!!)
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To: mkjessup

I sympathize with your feelings. However, that in no way changes my observation that if the Democrats push through amnesty, the Republicans will need to field a candidate that is in some respect attractive to Hispanics. Hopefully, some real conservative will be able to do so. But even better, I hope we will be able to block amnesty.


54 posted on 05/03/2009 3:04:53 AM PDT by broncobilly
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To: broncobilly

This “honeymoon” should have been over already: Dems, particularly those remaining in the South, might just (prayerfully) start getting cold feet about “Guest Worker Shamnesty”.


55 posted on 05/03/2009 3:14:38 AM PDT by SRJeff (Another day older and deeper in debt)
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To: broncobilly
I hope we will be able to block amnesty.
GWB = pro amnesty, "see y'all at the signing!"

JEB = pro amnesty, said that the tone of the debate had been "hurtful" to him and his Mexican-born wife, Columba.

There you have the problem. Jeb Bush takes the issue personally, when he should be thinking less about his wife, and more about what is in the higher interest of this Republic.
56 posted on 05/03/2009 3:22:31 AM PDT by mkjessup (You're either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU ("The Kenyan Usurper"). CHOOSE!!!)
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To: advance_copy

Jeb and his brother are Bushes. His daddy screwed the country up, and his brother really screwed the country up. jeb is a open borders guy.


57 posted on 05/03/2009 3:28:22 AM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: advance_copy
Governor Jeb Bush is probably thinking that eight years of Obama disaster will be enough to clear the way for another Bush to get elected President. He is wrong.

Absolutely. I will never vote for another Bush again. Americans don't like monarchies and they will not be permitted to exist here.

58 posted on 05/03/2009 3:32:09 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: mbraynard
Jeb Bush (although better than the other Bush's) is still a big government guy......

We need a guy that is closer to an anarchist than a big government proponent......

What are his proposals to “radically” change federal government?

He has some fine tune issues but little else.....

Until he is ready to fully and aggressively embrace the Fair Tax or something like it it's just rhetoric.....

59 posted on 05/03/2009 3:35:25 AM PDT by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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To: Markos33
8 years of Obama and there will be no more United States.

You're wrong - there already is no United States. Obama, Pelosi, and Reid destroyed it in 100 days.

60 posted on 05/03/2009 3:35:48 AM PDT by meyer (Obama is to the USA as Mugabe is to Zimbabwe.)
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