Welcome! Jeb Bush and his entire family are a class act and not deserving of the derision they get here.
The guy is neither fool nor rookie. He would not be running unless he felt there was a real chance of winning the nomination, and surely he has done sufficient research to know. Moreover, we’re going to get a candidate from the less conservative or two or three wing of the Republican Party, and I would take Jeb Bush in a heartbeat over Romney, for example, or Chris Christie.
This is a marketplace of ideas. I reserve judgment just because it’s early, but surely I would vote for him if he were the party’s nominee and we all benefit from a vigorous debating of the issues.
It’s fine for anyone to render a final judgment on this guy — he has a long track record after all — but the nastiness here is a mistake.
Is that you, Karl Rove?
The entire Bush family are all rabid Statists.
The entire Bush family has utter contempt for the United States Constitution.
The entire Bush family wants to erase our borders.
P.S. Do you know that Jeb Bush is a rabid supporter of the evil, Communist inspired Common Core.
I will NEVER cast a vote for another Bush.
You truly don't understand the nastiness? Are you young and naive?
We are truly at the point where we are about to lose our Republic as Founded. This is as serious as it gets.
The nastiness you witness is the civil response by rational people over witnessing so called leaders do absolutely nothing to save our Republic.
Our Founders would have already have taken action, ala the end of Nicolae Ceaușescu...
I beg to differ. Jeb, George W., George H.W, and Prescott are posterboys for everything that's wrong with the GOP establishment: crypto-liberalism on fiscal issues and especially on immigration, cronyism, and on top of that the nauseating sense of entitlement that comes with being part of a political dynasty.
LOL! Karl (or is it John B. or Mitch M.), I didn't know you had an account here!
This is Free Republic, we are the home to CONSERVATIVES and not Republicans -- which, these days, are merely Democrats by another name.
I don't know how you've on the forum since 2004 plugging such an Amnesty-loving Big Government Republican such as Jeb Bush, but you can't survive long.
He is a liberal. (Most) people on this forum are conservatives. Liberal repubs have been shafting conservatives for a long time now, after getting their help to gain power. So if there is anything nasty, I believe the nastiness is well deserved.
“Welcome! Jeb Bush and his entire family are a class act”
Yeah, a class act that has told conservatives to get lost.
We’re cannon fodder to these elitists. Get the stars out of your eyes.