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George P. Bush kicks off first campaign amid big expectations
CBS News ^ | July 22, 2013

Posted on 07/22/2013 11:10:24 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

...George P. Bush is running for state land commissioner, a post unfamiliar to most Texans, because he says it best suits his skills, not because it could launch him to bigger things in the largest Republican-leaning state.

"It's a legacy that I embrace and that I'm not going to run away from," Bush told The Associated Press.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
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To: DoughtyOne

If you ever read the novelist William Faulkner, you know about the Snopes family. THAT is the Bush family, 60 years earlier : )


41 posted on 07/22/2013 12:25:26 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: iopscusa

The original Prescott Bush must have been a real gem to turn out two generations of this ilk. The next generation doesn’t deserve the blame yet, but who in their right mind would take a chance knowing who their leading advisers within the family would be.

It’s like a Kennedy going to Ted for driving lessons?

“Sure kid, just pick me up out back of O’Shawnasee’s! We’ll pick up some babes and look for some quaint old wooden bridges to drive under.”


42 posted on 07/22/2013 12:27:01 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Zimmerman breaks Martin's nose/pounds his head on concrete? Does Martin's backers support Zimmerman?)
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To: VerySadAmerican

If that’s the case, SHTF/CW2 can’t come soon enough.


43 posted on 07/22/2013 12:27:34 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Guns kill people, pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk & spoons make you fat.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I should pick up the book and check it out.


44 posted on 07/22/2013 12:28:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Zimmerman breaks Martin's nose/pounds his head on concrete? Does Martin's backers support Zimmerman?)
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To: DoughtyOne

Faulkner lived in the south, and knew what a “carpetbagger” was.


45 posted on 07/22/2013 12:30:31 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: Politicalmom

Keep out da bushes!

I think he has supported La Raza.


46 posted on 07/22/2013 12:30:54 PM PDT by Memphis Moe
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Yep the Bush Family is qualified as Carpetbaggers, Scalawags, Damn Yankees & God awful Puritans.


47 posted on 07/22/2013 12:37:34 PM PDT by iopscusa (El Vaquero. (SC Lowcountry Cowboy))
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To: iopscusa

All of the above ; )


48 posted on 07/22/2013 12:38:33 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I didn’t get far enough South to know it from a personal basis, but I did learn the term fairly early in life and it stuck with me.


49 posted on 07/22/2013 12:41:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Zimmerman breaks Martin's nose/pounds his head on concrete? Does Martin's backers support Zimmerman?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Does he support allodial land titles? If so he is a different breed than the other Bush babies...


50 posted on 07/22/2013 12:50:35 PM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: VerySadAmerican

The GOP rinos will be giddy running him against Chelsea in 2024. Then in 2032 Malia Obama will run against Meghan McCain.


51 posted on 07/22/2013 12:58:42 PM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Wait, isn’t he from Connecticut where the rest of them Bushes grow?!


52 posted on 07/22/2013 1:01:00 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Is this the White Hispanic of the family?


53 posted on 07/22/2013 1:14:52 PM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A lot of news today regarding royal families.


54 posted on 07/22/2013 1:18:10 PM PDT by forgotten man
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To: livius

Young Jorge is a master of reaching across the aisle, only his reach is into Mexico.

All I have to say is barf, and I hate that word.


55 posted on 07/22/2013 3:40:29 PM PDT by stilloftyhenight (Proud bitter clinging wacko bird chirper.)
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To: stilloftyhenight

Oh please. I’m so sick of all this anti-Mexican stuff on FR. He’s not “reaching into Mexico.” He’s running for a position in Texas, a border state where the governor (who is conservative and is supported by the majority of the citizens) has a good view of things and has encouraged a prosperous state.

Mexicans are not voters here, in any case, and the big problem with the Bushes is not that they are friendly to Mexicans but that they are too easily pushed around by the Dems. GWB was so “gentlemanly” that he never, never fought back, and in addition, the GOP has always been so disunited and chaotic, each one out for his own particular obsession, that they could never come together to support him. But that’s a different story.


56 posted on 07/22/2013 3:46:28 PM PDT by livius
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a border state where the governor (who is conservative and is supported by the majority of the citizen

You do realize that Perry is an ultra-liberal former Democrat, right?

Other than his correct pro-life stance, and pro-gun (which many "liberals" are as well), he's for big government, big outsourcing, and pro-Mexico beliefs. All of that pales in comparison to the fact that he's just another dumb Aggie.
57 posted on 07/23/2013 10:27:04 AM PDT by TexasGunLover ("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
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