Posted on 01/27/2014 10:05:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s an unseasonably warm midwinter day when a giant blue campaign bus arrives at a downscale strip mall in Pasadena, Texas, announcing the imminent return of a Republican dynasty. George Prescott Bush, the scion of arguably the most successful political family in American history, is launching a statewide bus tour that will introduce him to public prominence as he runs for commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, an important but generally obscure statewide position.
Bush is a lock: He faces no serious challengers, a fact attributable largely to the overwhelming advantages that accompany his name. Come November, the handsome, studious and half-Hispanic 37-year-old George P. will walk into public office, and a choir of observers will begin a round of intense speculation about what his ascension means for his party, his state and his country.
One might think the Bushes had acclimatized themselves to public recognition by now. Yet there’s Pierce Bush, another nephew of former President George W., fleece-jacketed and playful-seeming as he circles the giant bus emblazoned with a huge blowup of George P.’s face, taking pictures with his phone. “It’s not every day you see your cousin on one of these,” he tells me. He seems proud—and a bit incredulous.
Inside the strip mall, the small office of the San Jacinto Republican Women is packed. Older women stand around chatting about P.—his resemblance to different members of the Bush family and the well-being of Barbara Bush, George P.’s grandmother, who recently told the nation it should forget the dynasty thing and look outside of the “Kennedys, Clintons, Bushes” for a new generation of leaders. Her grandson seems not to have taken the message personally; asked about it at another campaign stop, George P. said that Barb was talking mostly about the presidency....
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What if it’s a burning Bush?
No no. O no no
A billion times NO!!!!!
If another Bush or Clinton gets into elected office, I’m pretty sure we’ve sped right past aristocracy and monarchy and landed right smack in the middle of idiocracy.
Oh, God NO! Not those bastards again. Stay outta da Bushes!
What the hell is it with the Kennedy/Bush/Klinton thing? Why don’t any of the GOOD presidents have relatives? Were they just all dropped in from space or something?
Oh yeah, Roosevelt, further proving my point. I think it’s time for a Constitutional amendment stating that no one related within 6 steps to any prior president can be elected. Sheesh, it’s never been a good thing yet. Well, J. Q. Adams may have been alright for all I know.
Go Cruz!!
Read my lips.... NO more Bush’s!
Stay out da big gov’t f’n Bushies.
Bushes va embora
“The Next George Bush: Can the heir to America’s oldest political dynasty save the GOP?”
NO
No.
you can dress up a Bush any way you’d care to and they still are NOT conservatives.
Not going to be snookered again by a worthless dem lite type candidate.
Nope.
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The candidates
Land Commissioner
David Watts George P. Bush
PO Box 70 PO Box 2667
Judson, TX 75660 Austin, TX 78755
www.wattsfortexas.org www.georgepfortexas.org
And the party that benefits offers a splintery broomstick up our butts. Choices, choices...
What about the Harrison’s?
Agree. If we have to look to the Clinton, Kennedy, Bush and Cheney families for political leaders, we are no longer a democracy.
Born and raised in Fla but running for office in Texas?
He’s not Hispanic. He’s real Texan.
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