Posted on 02/25/2012 8:48:21 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Speculation that a late challenger might still emerge in the increasingly bitter race for the Republican presidential nomination is set to surge after former Florida governor Jeb Bush made remarks criticising the current field.
Bush, who is the brother of President George W Bush and son of President George Bush Sr, is a beloved figure among many conservatives who see him as a strong and charismatic leader who is popular in the must-win swing state of Florida.
That contrasts with a widespread unease among many Republican leaders and grassroots activists with the remaining crop of Republican candidates and the vitriolic nature of the fight between frontrunner Mitt Romney and his main challengers Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich.
In answers to questions from the audience after a speech in Dallas on Thursday, Bush cautioned the remaining Republican campaigns from drifting so far to the right that they put off the key independent voters needed to beat President Barack Obama in November.
"I think it's important for the candidates to recognise though they have to appeal to primary voters, and not turn off independent voters that will be part of a winning coalition," Bush told the audience according to CBS news.
Bush also directly took on the strident tone of recent Republican debates, accusing participants of scare-mongering. "I used to be a conservative and I watch these debates and I'm wondering, I don't think I've changed, but it's a little troubling sometimes when people are appealing to people's fears and emotion rather than trying to get them to look over the horizon for a broader perspective and that's kind of where we are," he said according to Fox News.
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Same thing I’ve heard, I don’t think RR did like him at all. RR was one of the few non-CFR presidents, although surrounded by them...
You mean you did not like Bush telling you about the benefits of a NWO?
but Jeb would be even softer on amnesty etc. than his brother was.
And his brother was pretty soft on illegals.
I think I’ll pass on another Bush. i.e. If Jeb is nominated in a brokered convention, I’ll stay home. PERIOD!.
But of course. We can’t let the little people peasants have too many “rights”....
No, and I was distinctly disgusted back then, young as I was. I could see the evil coursing out of him.
And then, Jr. made sure to usher in the police state, only to be compounded by those who followed him. Jr. will be able to live safe and sound in Paraguay while we the peasants live in our virtual concentration camp, groped and irradiated by mall cop Stasi.
Another Bush?? Will someone please drive these people into the sea? Like lemmings?
Jed? Yeah, I want a guy who got stared down by a freaking county probate judge, and joined the world to watch helplessly as the state took a month to murder a woman, Terri Schiavo, by starvation on national TV.
Yeah. Gimme Jeb.
Not.
I must say though that I personally liked G. W. Bush. He had a way of connecting with ordinary people. He was not the elitist tool his father was.
He is only a "white" knight to the GOP-E... a back-up plan to their Willard project.
I do remember liking Jr. for a short time... :0))
I agree with you.
GWB gave us tax cuts, Roberts, and Alito.
He was certainly no Reagan, and he made some mistakes (hey, so did Reagan) but he didn’t exactly fall flat on his face, either.
Jeb being “eyed” by whom?
People are voting out there, for God’s sake. Sitting on the sides cannot make anyone president.
VOTE NEWT!
I must say though that I personally liked G. W. Bush. He had a way of connecting with ordinary people. He was not the elitist tool his father was.
He’s part of the American Nomenclatura that is supporting the Marxist dominated Oligarcgy that we now have.
I liked George Bush, too. But he’s one of them.
In January he was in the Oval Office yucking it up with the evil bastard.
I just mean that personality wise he was much different. He did not talk down to people.....
The fear is palpable now. Even clerks at the cash register start talking about how afraid they are, especially if The Thing steals a second term. I view anyone sitting or schmoozing with him the way I view FDR at Yalta, sitting with Stalin while turning over a good chunk of Europe to be tortured, maimed, redistributed, and murdered for 50+ years.
I agree.
I think he wants to live another 20 years so he is now behaving and staying quiet. Unfortunately, I think it’s come to that.
This is how the commies get their agenda through. A bunch of posers who are supposed to be the opposition party, but help ease the way for the commie agenda.
Good point.
GWB could have exposed 0bama in 2007-2008. He had the intelligence on the evil bastard. GW allowed an avowed enemy of the United States to assume the presidency. Wrong, wrong, wrong.
You’re right. Communism is evil and devious. That’s why the people they use are called Useful Idiots. They use them and then throw them away.
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