BOB DOLE says BOB DOLE!
Posted on 12/09/2014 9:30:01 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Points of Light Chairman Neil Bush thinks his brother Jeb Bush should run for President in 2016 now that mom Barbara Bush is on board.
Watch here courtesy of Bloomberg:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
While she had objected in the past, Neil Bush told Bloomberg’s Trish Regan on Street Smart that “many people have come up to her” to say that he should run because “this country needs leadership” and “he can bring the country together.”
“So,” Neil Bush says, “Even my mom is starting to swing a little bit.”
Yeah, it’s totally unifying to suggest the country doesn’t have leadership right now, just because the person in the White House is from the other party. LOL forever Republicans. By “bringing the country together” they must mean The Country for Old White Men, because currently everyone is together except for the bitter, raging dinosaurs from the GOP/Fox News.
If there is one thing the Bushes aren’t remembered for, it’s the unity W wrought after 9/11, Katrina and the Bush market crash of 2008. So it’s going to be bizarre for the Bush family dynasty to run on UNITY so soon. Unity, as in, hey, let’s invade a sovereign nation on a lie and then accuse anyone who questions us of not loving their country. That’s the Bush brand of unity. You’re either with us or you belong in Gitmo. It’s very simple when there’s a “decider”; aka, “leadership”.
Neil Bush had a caveat for his brother, the former Governor of Florida, though. Jeb Bush will need to decide if he can enter the campaign fray “with joy”. Otherwise, you know, it’s totally not worth it. This is called putting feelers out there. If anecdotal middle America stories offer any gauge, I was sitting next to a woman from a very conservative town in the middle of white Republicanville when this idea was first being pushed on TV last week, and she pursed her lips and announced, “It’s too soon.” No one disagreed with her.
Meanwhile the frothing right hates Jeb Bush because they still believe that any shred of human decency shown to undocumented workers is “amnesty”, and they are totally against amnesty, like Jesus would have been. Amnesty is only for the white people who own Christmas and run this country from their version of the Bible like it’s supposed to be.
Former President George W. Bush has already weighed in, sharing his delusion that Jeb Bush could totally beat Hillary Clinton were she to run.
The only person beating Jeb Bush in the 2016 Republican primary polls right now is… recent presidential loser Mitt Romney. That tells you more about the state of the modern day GOP than words ever could. Oh, sure, it’s early days. But when they’re pinning hopes on a guy who was already massively rejected and the younger brother to the guy who ran the country into the deepest recession since the Great Depression, things are not rosy for the GOP when it comes to winning the White House.
It seems the only people who don’t realize IT’S TOO SOON FOR ANOTHER BUSH are the Bushes, the Republican party, and the Republican base. Other than that, it’s all good. Oh, except for the Koch brothers who are cooking up their own party in all but name. They might prefer better circus performer like Ted Cruz. Only time will tell.
BOB DOLE 2016!
Is this Sarah Jones the Al Jazeera journalist?
Don’t know.
There is great comfort in this message from This old White Man. When the left and right are singing in harmony that there is no hope for the Republicans, they are positioned to govern exactly where they belong. I’ll take one IKE for two JFK’s. One Reagan for all Carters, all Gores, one LBJ and throw in an Obama just for laughs. Either Bush for either Clinton.
Now it is time for my nap.
I can’t believe they are talking old guys when we have some great young Gen X’ers. The over 50 crowd has done a disaster for our country. Walker, Cruz, Palin, Paul, Jindel, and so many others are ready to take over and fix this country.
I would prefer a Jeb/Cruz election.
Jeb for the dems against Cruz for the republicans.
LOL! Bob Dole is all that we’re missing in this scenario (for reasons beyond his control).
Great Grandpa Dole vs Grandma Clinton
Think he could defeat the Clinton Crime Family second time around?
I thought you pinged me to coordinate on my naps.
Idiot. I am so sick of unpatriotic people. If you don’t know what my screen name means then you are a liberal and disgusting one that that. Why are you here????? You clearly are anti United States.
Yes, this is a ridiculous article. That’s not the Bush’s problem: the problem is that they are so desperate for “unity” that they simply never use their advantage when they have it, never pay back their enemies even by doing things like not reappointing them, and reach across the aisle no matter how many times they have their hands bitten off.
The reason Bush reached such unpopularity was that he allowed it to happen because he never defended himself, no matter how outrageous the attacks, and he never opposed those attacking or undermining him or even committing illegal acts to do so (remember Sandy “Burglar”?). Weakness attract bullies, and the Dems are nothing if not bullies.
I don’t think Jeb Bush would be any different. It would be “unity, unity, unity,” even though that’s impossible, and he would lie down and roll over to show how much he wanted it. But we need somebody with some backbone if we want to have any hope of peeling back at least some of the damage that Obama has done to this country.
I always thought it mean you were posting from a mental ward, so I overlooked your indecipherable rants.
You liberals are out in force today.
BOB DOLE says BOB DOLE!
I think we should be looking at our governors for the next candidate, but not this one.
You may not know it, but I get great pleasure out of exposing the anger and bad manners of young know it alls. And no, I am far from being a liberal and have a fifty year public record to follow.
I won’t be reading any more of your outbursts, but know with little doubt that you will make the effort.
I don’t give a care about a terrorist. Your the one who replied to me first you dimwit. I can’t stand you but you keep insisting on talking to me.
You may not know it, but I get great pleasure out of exposing the anger and bad manners of young know it alls. And no, I am far from being a liberal and have a fifty year public record to follow.
I won’t be reading any more of your outbursts, but know with little doubt that you will make the effort.
Republicans need a nominee who isn’t afraid to mix it up with the democrats when the situation calls for it. That seems to be outside the genetic program of the Bush family dynasty.
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