[Jim Noble]

Opening salvo in the Bush 2012 campaign. Chest pounders and mob leaders jump in...

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

No Bushes in 2012! Scorched earth if we have to!

[NavVet]

No Amnesty Pandering RINOS PLEEEEAAASE!

[Diogenesis]

[SolidWood]

Dead in the tracks. A total nonstarter. There won’t be any Bush President’s in the next 100 years. Rightly so. We are a Republic and have no need for dynasties.

[David1]

He was not the first democrat to win Florida since 1976. BJ won Florida in 1996.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I would never vote for Jeb Bush. He disgraced himself during the Schiavo affair. A night watchman at a bakery has bigger ones.

[Altura Ct.]

Fred Barnes, Jeb Bush & John McCain.

The epitome of what is wrong with the stupid party.

[kindred]

As a conservative individual, the republican party has abandoned conservative principles and most noticably their own conservative platform. Like fools, they continue to try to make liberal policies and principles their new way and that is just evil.
Evil is as evil does, and the GOP is now liveral as the communist democrats and will get worse and worse. Their is no cure for evil but the judgement of God and that is come.
The gop is dead.

[Vaquero]

no more Bushes, no more, not ever!!!!

America is all RINO’d out....please, go back to Texas or Florida or Connecticut or where ever the RINOs go.

[jla]

Excellent article. Jeb Bush thinks broadly and innovatively, yet he needs to expound on exactly how he would reform immigration. He seems to demonize the "chest pounders", a group who merely seek to have the laws of this land enforced. As if that were somehow undesirable, or sinful.
He did this with his assessment of our education system vis a vis that of Sweden.

The Kindle book reader. How do these devices work? Do you download books for a price, akin to something like iTunes for an iPod?

[Mr. K]

PLEASE NOT *ANOTHER* BUSH RINO

W AND HIS FATHER *BOTH*SIGNED THE BIGGEST GOVERNMENT MONEY HOAXES IN HISTORY

THEY ARE TOO STUPID TO STICK TO CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES WHEN PRESSURED BY DEMOCRAPS

[niteowl77]

Jeb makes a lousy grassroots Republican, but then so would most of the big chunks floating at the top of the GOP septic tank. I do think he makes a dynamite moderate Democrat though.

So does Fred Barnes.

Mr. niteowl77

[nonliberal]

I will never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever vote for another Bush.

[GQuagmire]

"It's "possible," he says, that he'll never run again -- for anything. That includes the presidency in 2012."

'12 maybe not. In '16 absolutely. Notice in the article talking about past and present GOP governors no mention of Sarah Palin? The GOP "elite" do not want her in the national arena as much as the Dems.

[Kakaze]

"I would never want Obama to go through what my brother went through.... But it's not right for our country, it's not going to help us, and it's not going to help Republicans."

Don't worry, your pretty little head Jeb, it will be in the end much worse for B. Hussein

Obama's first terrorist attack was coordinated by himself , Pelosi and Reid, their collective actions and those that voted for it are nothing short of treason.

The muslims will attack us again and it will be a damn hard hit, Mexico is on the brink of dissolution, if not revolution........

It will not be a pretty 4 years for Obama, for the rest of us it will be a nightmare.

Perhaps Jeb you should be more worried about the country, than the legacy or treatment of an out right socialist, hell bent on destroying the country your father went to war for.

[WorkingClassFilth]

If Jeb-o seeks a run, he’ll drive every conservative in the nation into the arms of the closest alternative. Hopefully, that will be Sarah Palin. If not, another landslide victory for the RATs.

[iowamark]

Mr. Bush has kind words for Mr. Obama. He was the first Democrat to win Florida since 1976, and Mr. Bush has nothing but praise for his "spectacularly well-run campaign....

Clinton won Florida. Don't they have editors at the Wall Street Journal any more?

Mr. Bush supports immigration reform as championed by his brother and John McCain, which would allow illegals already in this country to stay. "Politics has to be about ideas and values and aspirations." he says. "It shouldn't be about anger and preying on people's emotions. You can't lead a mob."...

A(n) angry mob is exactly what elected Obama.

[kenmcg]

Out the damn Bushs’! GWB got us into this mess with his “just can’t we all get along” attitude. No more Specters, Collins’ or Snowes’ who don’t help us.

[Dahoser]

Fred Beetle Barnes and his moderate Weekly Standard share part of the blame for the GOP mess. He needs to take his DC-issue horn rims back to Baltimore and STFU.

[Man50D]

Conservatives need to accept the fact The Republican party has been increasingly accepting the socialist principles of their Democrat counterparts for many years and move on. The battered wife syndrome of returning to a party and party leaders who seek to consistently smack down Conservative principles is a losing proposition.