The horror... the horror.... what is the world coming to?
"Jeb Bush is going to take a significant hit on this. Just how big a hit depends on how he handles it. The best strategy for him to employ is total candor --- not slick lawyerly evasions. "
We must get this stratagy to the governors political advisors immediately...time is of the essence!!!
"I am disgusted that they didn't take that job seriously enough to prevent this maddening distraction from happening."
Just take a deep breath and repeat after me.... "The world does not revolve around me." "The world does not...
Do I stand by it anyway? Absolutely, because underneath the pomposity is a valid expression of frustration. These 'personal failings' scandals have become a staple of contemporary politics, and they distract us all from the important business of the country. After eight years of Bill Clinton, the Bush family should have learned this lesson. We've all been through this drill a thousand times in the last twenty years.
According to another poster on this thread, Jeb Bush knew his daughter had a problem. He should have been proactive in dealing with it, since he knows that his job as an elected official leaves him wide open to attack for failing to do so, thereby threatening his ability to do the job he was elected to do! It shouldn't have taken his daughter's arrest to get him to act.