Posted on 12/01/2009 8:51:22 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Jeb Bush is unique in that he is both unknown and known. He can certainly win a GOP primary, and can raise the money to compete with frontrunners Palin and Romney. I think Jeb will be getting more involved over the next several months, starting with the Florida senate primary. I also think Cheney is a Jeb proxy, and that his attacks are meant to undermine Obama while moving the country back into the Bush/Cheney policy direction, awaiting a new leader to take the torch from the former Vice President. Remember, Cheney earlier this year, unprompted, suggested he would support Jeb Bush for president in 2012. Considering that there are significant people in the party harping about a Cheney run, as well as a media fascination with such a run, coupled with the realty that a 71 year old with a bad heart simply will not run, opens the door to Jeb Bush taking up the mantle in 2012. Bush would fill that media desire to clash Obama with Cheney, only enhancing it.
With Huckabee and Palin potentially sitting out in 2012, there is a huge opening for someone to take up the anti-Romney position. Bush, with his vast network of connections, his organizing potential, and the generation of political chits collected by the Bush family, puts Jeb in as good a position as a Pawlenty or a Daniels to make a bid and challenge Romney. Now if Palin runs, and the field fills up, then Jeb will likely wait until 2016, or simply stay out of public life and let his son, George P. Bush (nicknamed 47 by the family) take up the presidential legacy down the line.
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>>How many politically plugged in people had never heard of Barak Obama three years ago? How many had never heard of Bill Clinton when he was gov. of Ark. Or Palin? Or even Bush, pere, before he was veep?
In this new media age you can go from complete obscurity to household name in a day.
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That, my FRiend, is my feverent hope. We need a white night aright quick.
I grant you that. If I were him I would run for the senate and taken the stance that Rubio has. Like the rest of his family is is not really a conservative. He won’t go against his father.
>>They should not repeat that. Because I will NOT vote for McCain II any more than I voted for McCain I.<<
Thanks for giving us obama. Any other “help” you would like to offer to keep yourself ideologically pure? Maybe move to California and help keep Boxer and Pelosi in power? I am sure there are many extreme liberals that need your help to keep them in office.
>>I am sorry that our bottom hurts and that it is red and tender. There is a way to stop that from happening. It does not include John McCain or Jeb Bush.<<
No, it includes barak hussein obama and michelle obama. And that lash is the freedom and money you gave away in the name of your aggrandized sense of personal importance.
Please, don’t help us anymore. The country can’t take any more patriots like you. We will look like Venezuela if you and your ilk continue to vote what passes for your “conscience.”
No illegal aliens were harmed in making this proposition.
Excellent point -- and I'm smacking myself on the forehead for not having seen it. The Bushes and Cheneys are of the same cloth. They trust each other. They share the same core principles and a good number of the same friends and associates. Of course Cheney is a proxy for Jeb. It makes perfect sense.
Not a chance in h$ll. Jeb knows that America will never elect another Bush to the WH . . . . at least, not in our lifetime. We've had our fill of the political dynasties and he has less than a snowball's chance in h$ll of ever winning a single primary.
In addition, it's time to let Cheney be retired. The man is nearly 70 years old and, as much as I respect and admire him, I really don't think he is up for another stint in government. He's doing fine where he is and doing what he is doing.
IMO, in the FWIW department, Palin is clearly the frontrunner to watch and she needs to pick some new blood for her VP. All of the names being trotted out may be sentimental favorites for some folks here, but doing the same thing over and over (with the same people) has gotten us where we are today and still defines insanity. It's time to move forward and stop looking in the rearview mirror.
Jeb would be miserable in the senate. He’s not the “cooperative” type.
This is an interesting topic and I’d like to hear what the analysis is from y’all, because you are the Schmartzest people in the world.
And instead, I get all this emotionalism, sophomoric comments, like it’s the 6th grade Forum. By the way, Pawlenty is in full-scale conquer mode to drive Romney into a second-tier non-factor. I didn’t realize the guy had so many national contacts.
He’s been on Fox News lots. And he comes across better than that Dullsville speech that he gave at the National COnvention in ‘08.
I personally think that he is the best out of them all...and, yes, he is no RINO (unlike his brother and father)...besides I would just love to PO all of the lefties again....
Nope -- obama got it. How's that hope and change working for you? Or your kids, grandkids and great-grandkids? How about the troops that are left dangling in Afghanistan? You proud of your decision to strand them and embolden our enemies?
Thanks again -- and when they come to take your gun just like they are taxing your right to exist, just keep repeating to yourself "I am the customer and I am always right."
The problem is not purity but the divided nature of the party. The liberals dominate the Congress because they are able to keep the likes of Ben Nelson from controlling the turn of events. We let McCain and Graham control events, when it is clear than in domestic matters they have their own agenda. If the Bobbsey twins from Maine were our only problem, we could handle that. But McCain and Graham—and others we can name—are clearly Establishment figures. The Establishment wants control of both parties. So long as they do, they don’t really care which one wins.
No question about it. Your vote for obama won the day.
Don't you mean the Military Industrial Complex? The Establishment is, like, so Herbert.
That is a vague and unconvincing vote of no confidence on your part.
I won't go into a full dissertation of why Sarah Palin is America's best hope to restore this country to its conservative roots, and how she will help us to root out the leftist corruption now infecting every corner of our government, but you can plainly see it in the trajectory of her political career, and her public service record.
Sarah has guts, determination, honesty, and the one thing that most politicians are lacking in, and that is rock-solid, unshakable core values. She will always make the correct choice in a crisis, because her decisions are informed and guided by her principles. And those principles are 100% conservative, with their roots firmly planted in our American Founding Ideals.
This is what people across the nation are reacting to. They saw the same thing in Ronald Reagan, who was also dismissed and ridiculed by the left-wing press in his time. His defeat of the hapless Jimmy Carter was so devastating, and such an overwhelming repudiation of liberalism, that it knocked the wind right out of the Democrat left.
Sarah Palin will do the same thing in 2012, should she decide to run. There is absolutely no question about that.
Which says a lot in his favor. Funny how fate happens the wrong Bush won a governorship first. I think. W. has a lot of sand that maybe Jeb does not.
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