Posted on 11/24/2012 8:28:27 PM PST by WilliamIII
As Barack Obama and many others never tire of telling us, part of the American Dream is that anyone can grow up to be president.
That's not exactly true, of course. It takes smarts and charisma, ambition and ego, money and key allies, and quite a bit of luck to get anywhere close to the White House.
Still, we're not supposed to have political royalty in our democracy, born of a revolution against the British king.
So it made me cringe to see the story on the front page of Friday's New York Times, also published in The Bee, about supporters already talking up Jeb Bush as a potential presidential contender in 2016. That would be the former Florida governor who is the son of George H.W. Bush, our 41st president, and brother of George W. Bush, our 43rd.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
I voted for Bush 1 and 2, I’d rather poke my eyes out with a pencil than vote for Bush 3.
Obama is the 3rd Bush president. I think he’s hiding his birth certificate because it reveals George H.W. Bush was his real father.
It’s not nepotism to be elected by the citizens.
It also seems to have brought out the Bush-bashers too! He has a right to run and people have a right to vote for him, don’t they? Right!
I haven’t missed an election in 40 years. But if he gets the nomination I’ll sit it out. This guy getting office will secure the US as a banana republic.
Of course she has also been a senator for 8 years and Secretary of State for 4.
Right on! There were the Harrisons (Benjamin and William Henry)who were Grandfather and Grandson as well!
Conservatives, get ready. The RNC is “socializing” the prospect of Running Jeb as “their boy” in 2016. This hype started during the summer and is going to intensify over the next 4 years.
I like Jeb, but I won’t vote for another Bush in the WH. 2 have been plenty and, after the Romney defeat on the heels of the McCain defeat, I want to say that I’m suroprised the RNC is pushing another “moderate” (RINO), but I’m not.
So, get ready. The RNC is laying the foundations for another defeat in 2016 if we don’t stop them.
They’re starting now.
So should we.
I think no matter who runs, the Democrats have rigged the system.
Sure “he has a right to run and people have a right to vote for him”
Same for Obama and his voters
In other words your comment is beside the point
It’s no place for nepotism. It’s now the place for despotism.
Exactly what I was going to say. In ALL THE DECADES those murdering Kennedy drunkards were (and still are) being groomed for high office, that communist rag in Sacramento didn't have one word in criticism to say about it. Hypocritical bastards.
STAY OUT DA BUSHES!
Just hit “Post” once, please. Thank you.
My thoughts exactly not to mention Chelsea Clinton I have heard her named thrown about for public office.
As a matter of fact, yes.
If the people vote for another Bush.. Clinton or whomever its in their power to do so.
It's in their power, but there is still the problem of being dumb as a stump if they did so. How's Barky working out for them? (But don't ask them -- they voted for the s.o.b. a second time, so obviously they haven't a clue.)
The author obviously forgets about the Adams and Roosevelt etc.
Oh, really, dynasticism worked for us before, did it?
Well, John Quincy Adams sat in the House of Representatives for years after his term of office as President, and he personally, by himself, kept Texas out of the Union for ten years. Did that benefit the Union?
It was Quincy Adams, by the way, who originally had the idea of "reorganizing" the South politically by force of arms ..... young Abraham Lincoln was obviously paying attention. So, how'd that work out for us? A million dead -- was that worth it, to accomplish what every other civilized nation on the face of the earth managaed to do without a civil war, without a million dead? Think about it for a while before you reply -- about the snooty Massachusetts Yankee, prescriptive and judgmental in the same breath, ordaining civil war as a way to get the tariffs the Federalists wanted, by actually removing Southern representatives and senators from the federal government. Think about that for a while before you reply.
And Franklin Roosevelt -- are you kidding me?! Better he had died of his polio, than that he turned the American republic into a centralized, planned, mandarin-ridden copy of the European dystopian societies. Yeah, thanks a lot, FDR -- and take that damned grinning idiot Doris Kearns Goodwin with you!!!
“we’re not supposed to have political royalty in our democracy”
And we’re not supposed to have complete, frickin morons in the news media but somehow or another, this ass has a job that doesn’t involve milkshakes.
His base? His base doesn't matter. The MSM matters, we do not.
Mark Halperin, son of traitor and Pentagon-Papers leaker Morton Halperin (both of them worked in the Clinton Administration) and now a senior political writer for TIME, bragged on Charlie Rose during the GOP convention that the MSM wouldn't let the GOP message reach the voters; it would be filtered, spun, prismatically bent and diffracted, into incoherence. He promised that -- provoked by Clint Eastwood's effective endorsement speech -- and he and his fellow media assassins made good his boast.
Oh, please. Give us a break.
Both Bush have already betrayed conservatives already. One with higher taxes, another with more debt and bailouts
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