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Bush-Cheney 2012?
The Daily Beast ^ | May 20, 2009 | Reihan Salam

Posted on 05/19/2009 2:55:58 PM PDT by Lou Budvis

Over the weekend, President Obama named Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, a telegenic Republican moderate, as his pick for ambassador to China, removing one possible 2012 challenger from the fray. Gov. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, a straight-shooting right-winger I find it impossible to dislike, is loved by conservative activists, but not always by his fellow South Carolinians. Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska has, for a variety of reasons, not all of them entirely fair, become a national punchline. My guess is that Republican primary voters won’t bite, just as Iowa Democrats turned against Howard Dean at the last possible moment. Gov. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota is lacking in star wattage. Because Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana is not insane, he's keeping his powder dry until 2016, and the same might even be true of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. As for Mike Huckabee, who has become a scourge of bailout capitalism, his failure to make headway outside of his evangelical base suggests that he's fundamentally a niche candidate.

The missing candidate, then, is Jeb Bush, a successful two-term governor of a big swing state with sterling conservative credentials, a record of appealing to Latino voters, and the raw brainpower and rhetorical skill to match Barack Obama.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; cheney; globalists; jebbush; rino; rinobush; rinoparty
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To: Lou Budvis

>>The missing candidate, then, is Jeb Bush, a successful two-term governor of a big swing state with sterling conservative credentials, a record of appealing to Latino voters, and the raw brainpower and rhetorical skill<<

No.


21 posted on 05/19/2009 3:11:36 PM PDT by gondramB
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To: Sacajaweau

We need a new face thats the opposite of 0. A war hero perhaps :-)


22 posted on 05/19/2009 3:11:44 PM PDT by omega4179 (Boycott government communist tractor factories!)
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To: jessduntno

“I thought you were talking Liz Cheney. She kiscks liberal ass...”

She seems to be doing a good job of that lately. What do you make of this:

[snip]LIZ CHENEY, ROMNEY SENIOR FOREIGN POLICY ADVISER: Well, it’s great to be here. Thanks, John. I think that clearly, Gov. Romney, when you look across the whole range of issues and challenges our next president is going to have to face, is the one best suited to face those challenges. He has got a very clear record on issues like cutting taxes. Sen. McCain also voted against the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, for example, in addition to the list you mentioned before.....As I looked at the candidates, it became clear to me, absolutely that Gov. Romney was the man who would best lead this country.” Jan. 29, 2008

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326374,00.html


23 posted on 05/19/2009 3:13:03 PM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: avacado

There you go!!!


24 posted on 05/19/2009 3:13:32 PM PDT by dusttoyou (Remember the Alamo Tea Party - CHENEY-PALIN 2012)
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To: rabscuttle385

“No more Bushes!”

Louder!

Good grief, ‘conservatives’ are acting like wives who get beaten, forget in a week and crawl back for more.


25 posted on 05/19/2009 3:15:11 PM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: gondramB

I always liked Jeb better than W and I think it’s unfortunate that he’ll probably never get his chance, but W has made the name too radioactive.

A Palin / (Liz or Dick) Cheney ticket, however, would cause such hysteria I almost want to see it happen.


26 posted on 05/19/2009 3:16:56 PM PDT by Lou Budvis (Producers of the World - Unite!)
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To: Lou Budvis

“Sterling coservative credentials”? I wonder what Salam has in his hookah!


27 posted on 05/19/2009 3:17:04 PM PDT by Dionysius (Jingoism is no vice in these troubled times.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

THAT would be killer. I love ‘em both.


28 posted on 05/19/2009 3:17:07 PM PDT by Gator113 (Weak-coward-racist-white hating-lying-traitor= Surrender Monkey in Chief-B. Hussein Obama...)
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To: AuntB
Alright.

NO...
MORE...
BUSHES!

29 posted on 05/19/2009 3:17:30 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: Lou Budvis

Continuing effort to steer the party away from Palin, whom the left fears most of all.


30 posted on 05/19/2009 3:18:17 PM PDT by raptor29
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To: raptor29

They fear her b/c she doesn’t fear them, i.e. blasting ND’s invite to 0bama.


31 posted on 05/19/2009 3:20:21 PM PDT by Lou Budvis (Producers of the World - Unite!)
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To: rabscuttle385

Yep!


32 posted on 05/19/2009 3:22:09 PM PDT by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925; Foreigners 2008)
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To: sickoflibs; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued

Please, for the love of God, no more Bushes!


33 posted on 05/19/2009 3:23:07 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 ("If this be treason, then make the most of it!" —Patrick Henry)
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To: AuntB

This column was so dumb, I couldn’t let it go.

There are conservatives who don’t get it. Reihan is one of them.

Best,

Chris


34 posted on 05/19/2009 3:23:27 PM PDT by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I love both of them but don’t give them much a chance. Glen Beck had Bolton on today and he was great as always.


35 posted on 05/19/2009 3:24:28 PM PDT by fish hawk (The trouble with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Lou Budvis

Exactly. The question will be, how many of the non-thinking, able-to-be-influenced mush-heads on our side will allow the vermin in the MSM to convince them Palin can’t win? Hell, if they would have run her out there a couple months earlier this past election, that stiff McCain would have beaten the commie.


36 posted on 05/19/2009 3:24:49 PM PDT by raptor29
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To: rabscuttle385

Yeah obambi is such an improvement.


37 posted on 05/19/2009 3:35:47 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Lou Budvis

You can bet your last dollar that I will not vote for such a ticket.


38 posted on 05/19/2009 3:36:49 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: AuntB

I don’t get it...except the stubborn Pubs are always ready to give it to the “next guy in line” and that is Romney, unfortunately...why she would go in with him, I don’t get, though...he sure ain’t her old man’s type of man...


39 posted on 05/19/2009 3:37:16 PM PDT by jessduntno (July 4th, 2009. Washington DC. Gadsden Flags. Be There.)
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To: freekitty
Sarah Palin is a national punchline because she is not pro-abortion, she likes to hunt and she is a Christian in values.

I can't think of anything the MSM hates worse except for President Bush who went after the terrorists.

40 posted on 05/19/2009 3:39:03 PM PDT by pfflier
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