Posted on 05/18/2014 3:57:17 PM PDT by jimbo123
Several years ago, Columba Bush was at a Republican women’s gathering in Jacksonville, Florida, looking like she wanted to bolt for the exit.
Tom Slade Jr. – former chairman of the Florida GOP and a friend of Columba and her famous husband, former Gov. Jeb Bush – recalled how she seemed utterly ill at ease.
Her dislike of being in the spotlight, and at events where people go to see who’s there and to be seen, is well-known among those who know the Bush couple.
Columba Bush, who is 60, has endured it, Slade told the Washington Post, because the high-profile world of politics is one her husband revels in, like a fish in water.
He recalled her saying “Jebby really does love politics, so I can’t stand in his way.”
But whether that also goes for being on-board with her husband, who is 61, running for president in 2016 is, for the moment, anyone’s guess.
(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...
Therefore, does it hurt or help that chance is the driving motivation.
Columba has never liked being in the spotlight, even when Bush was governor of FL. However, she did a lot of good work behind the scenes with private charities.
Also, I’m sick of presidents’ wives. This started with the Clintons, although Bush didn’t continue it - we knew who Laura Bush was, but nobody really cared.
Obama and his Frankenbride resumed it. Now we have a sullen spoiled brat who thinks she’s a celeb and believes that her tweets should be engraved on Mt Rushmore.
I hope the next president’s wife will just keep her mouth shut, not take million dollar vacations, and stay out of sight.
What a crock of a story.
He does not seem to be listening to his mother, Barbra.
Why would he listen to his Mexican wife.
After all, she too wants to co-rule over the new coming Mexican
Empire(The US).
Politico magazine has an article dated May 15th entitled
Duck This Dynasty
Why America doesn’t need another Clinton presidency.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/clinton-dynasty-106745.html#ixzz32777zm8E
Six months: that’s how long Democrats have to talk about inequality in America with conviction and, for whatever it’s worth in politics, consistency. Six months from now marks the midterm elections, the unofficial start of the 2016 presidential campaign and Hillary Clinton’s long-delayed ride to inevitability.
What does Hillary Clinton have to do with inequality in America? She’s no robber baron, of course. But the core case against inequality isn’t about resentment of wealth—it’s about the ways in which the concentration of wealth is making politics increasingly pointless, a game of access and not arguments. Anyone who fears that future should think twice before casting a ballot for a dynastic politician, because dynastic candidates turn politics pointless in essentially the same way. They trade on family capital to make elections less meaningful; they are prone to be inflexible and indifferent to inequality; and they have good reason to be even less accountable to the public than ordinary politicians. Concentrated economic power and concentrated political power are, in the end, two sides of a coin.
The prospect of a dynastic future should be especially disturbing to Democrats like me. Political life tolerates all sorts of little hypocrisies, but some gulfs between what a party wants to say—and whom a party chooses to say it—are too wide to be bridged. If we want to talk critically about the concentration of economic power in the United States, if we really believe that the rise and rise of the 1 percent is the signal issue of our time, we have to live by our words when it comes to the concentration of political power. We can’t effectively criticize inequality as long as we practice the politics of dynasty. And that means Hillary Clinton can’t possibly be our standard bearer in 2016. Leave dynasties to the Republicans and Jeb Bush—or whichever other scion of Kennebunkport the GOP wants to throw at us next.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/clinton-dynasty-106745.html#ixzz3278p2F9v
Even Democrats can be right sometimes.
-——Obama and his Frankenbride resumed it. Now we have a sullen spoiled brat who thinks she’s a celeb and believes that her tweets should be engraved on Mt Rushmore.-——
Permit me one small correction.....
Mrs, frankenbribe thinks herself a queen.....
Darn it, hit post before I meant to.
Hope the excerpt isn’t too long, the article runs 4 pages.
I looked through the FR home page to make sure Politico wasn’t on the prohibited list.
I agree with Politico on this one, the arguments against Clinton II apply equally to Bush III.
We’re well on the road to the creation of an American nomenklatura or a Late Roman Republic state of affairs where the retainers, hangers on and clientia of the great speak of faithfully serving the Family Bush and being torn by the possibility of a Christie candidacy:
“Those of us that have been dedicated to the Bush family for years would obviously have to take a Jeb candidacy into extremely serious consideration,” said Fred S. Zeidman, a Texas businessman and top fund-raiser for George W. Bush’s two presidential campaigns who has helped introduce Mr. Christie to potential supporters in his state.”
What is Mr. Zeidman, a royal freedman?
This is a republic.
Do they have their drug addict safely locked away?
If Bush was elected would it be his wife’s decision if we went to war? After all, war has a harsh effect on a President. Maybe she doesn’t want the stress...
Bush needs to grow a pair...
If she wants him to run, that makes one.
She's the tax cheat, right?
“Does he ask her if he can pee too?”
Running for president is a bit more serious than taking a piss. I know you were making light of the situation, but I’d be more concerned about a husband who didn’t care what his wife or family thought. Of course, I believe in traditional, Christian marriage where the man and wife are supposed to work together as a team and care about what is best for each other.
Will we get another pro-abortion Bush wife?
The granddaddy of them all, Sen. Prescott Bush, was planned parenthood’s 1st treasurer.
George H. W. Bush was pro-choice but switched to get on the ticket with Ronald Reagan. Too bad the republican party pressured Reagan to accept Bush as V.P. The Bushs haven’t been good for America.
George H. W. Bush was on the plane with Kissinger to set up the meeting for Nixon with China. At the time, China was almost a 3rd world nation. G.H.W. Bush was then appointed ambassador to China. I guess this was all part of their “new world order.” All this free trade stuff was set up by free traitors.
Jeb, sorry but I won’t be voting for another Bush.
Just what we need....another wise Latina at the highest levels of power.
Lame!
This isn’t about whether she wants him to run, but whether she feels that she’ll be able to take the heat. She likes to stay out of the limelight, and I only remember seeing her once durning Bush’s entire governorship, and that was at a campaign appearance for W. She was very gracious ands arm (she’s very pretty and elegant, as I recall), but she’s obviously not interested in being the center of attention.
I think it’s hard for political wives because the expectation now is that the wife wants to be a sort of co-president and that she’s going to be politically powerful. Columba did a lot of fundraising for charities and cultural things in Florida and was particularly interested in Florida history and did a lot for our museums., but that was all she wanted to do. But the press will no longer permit that, so she’s got to decide if she’s up to having her every move scrutinized and having all the familY’s dirty laundry hauled out (they have a very difficult daughter). A Dem could get away with having Godzilla for a wife, but not a GOPer.
Also, she’s got to decide if she’s up to the bigotry she would face, as we can see from this thread.
Which one?
I will vote for Jeb Bush the same day Terri Schiavo rises from the grave and votes for him.
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