Posted on 02/25/2010 4:29:48 PM PST by Brices Crossroads
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Saturday that it's time for the Republican Party to give up its "nostalgia" for the heyday of the Reagan era and look forward, even if it means stealing the winning strategy deployed by Democrats in the 2008 election.
"You can't beat something with nothing, and the other side has something. I don't like it, but they have it, and we have to be respectful and mindful of that," Mr. Bush said.
The former president's brother, often mentioned as a potential candidate in 2012, said President Obama's message of hope and change during the 2008 campaign clearly resonated with Americans.
"So our ideas need to be forward looking and relevant. I felt like there was a lot of nostalgia and the good old days in the [Republican] messaging. I mean, it's great, but it doesn't draw people toward your cause," Mr. Bush said.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Saturday that it's time for the Republican Party to give up its "nostalgia" for the heyday of the Reagan era and look forward, even if it means stealing the winning strategy deployed by Democrats in the 2008 election.
"You can't beat something with nothing, and the other side has something. I don't like it, but they have it, and we have to be respectful and mindful of that," Mr. Bush said.
The former president's brother, often mentioned as a potential candidate in 2012, said President Obama's message of hope and change during the 2008 campaign clearly resonated with Americans.
"So our ideas need to be forward looking and relevant. I felt like there was a lot of nostalgia and the good old days in the [Republican] messaging. I mean, it's great, but it doesn't draw people toward your cause," Mr. Bush said.
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This came to mind because of Jeb Bush's comments to Newsmax in which he acknowledges Sarah Palin's "charisma" but says she needs to add “some depth of understanding of the complexity of life”. He also recommends a "little intellectual curiosity". I thought this was condescending, so I decided to post his estimation back in 2009 that we should move beyond Reagan because the world is so complex, and conservatives "need to be more forward looking and relevant.".
This was the same argument always levelled at Reagan while he was in office. The world was too complex for a simpleton actor. In his own era, which was obsessed with the complexity of "insoluble problems" and the spreading notion that the Presidency was "too big for one man", Reagan often repeated one of his sayings, which is so true, "There are simple solutions-just not easy ones." That is not nostalgia. That is as true today as it was then.
It is somewhat ironic that Jeb Bush chose to make this statement, so often used as a knock on Reagan, almost thirty years to the day (February 26, 1980) after his father, the quintessential, but competent(so he said) moderate was vanquished by the conservative, but simplistic, Reagan.
Is he still on this kick? What a doofus.
Go away. No more Bushes.
F U JEB
The Bush Age is over.
IIRC, they were visiting pizza shops on their tour. Good grief, all I can say is “Stay out da bushes!”
Jeb ol boy your dumber than your brother..... go away we done want none of what your selling.....
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The Bushes wish they collectively possessed a tenth of Reagan’s leadership ability and patriotism.
No more Bushes is absolutely right.
In fact, thei is just more typical RINO hot air.
Its time to leave the Bush/Bush era behind.
The more I here this idiot talk, the more I think he was adopted....
TIME FOR THE GOP TO STAY OUT DA BUSHES ONCE AND FOR ALL!
(Jesse was right for once in his silly life).
Enough of all of the dynasties. That is not how our government is supposed to run. No more Clintons, Bushes, Kennedys, Bidens, Dodds, Bayhs, et al.
I’m sorry, Jeb; you’ve obviously been confused for someone relevant.
How can any of the Bushes after the history of last 20 years presume to lecture the rest of us on the direction conservatism should go. That is hubris.
What is he talking about? Go away Bushes.
This must be Jeb’s way of bowing out of the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
Quite frankly Jeb, I am for leaving the Bush’s behind. Forever.
Shove off, Jeb. We tried it your way in ‘06 and ‘08. It was a disaster . . . and so are you.
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