Posted on 06/16/2015 12:23:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A s Jeb Bush formally enters the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, allow me to make a humble request of the former Florida governor: Please drop out.
I appreciate that my request is impertinent in the extreme. Bush is by all accounts one of the most creative, thoughtful, and disciplined minds in American politics, and if anyone has earned the right to weigh in on the future direction of the GOP, it is him. I also appreciate that my timing is awful. To drop out immediately after entering the race would seem capricious, and no one wants to look like a flighty weirdo, least of all an elder statesman who deserves to be taken seriously.
Rather than drop out this week or next, perhaps Bush can do what he does best and spend the next few months developing a series of substantive policy ideas that any future GOP nominee might embrace. He can elevate these ideas by touting them as an official candidate before dropping out some time in the fall. Think of this as a bait-and-switch, in the most benign sense. By suggesting that he is fully committed to running a serious presidential campaign, Bush can get a hearing for any number of ambitious reform proposals that might be ignored if they came from a think tank or an obscure congressional backbencher. Perhaps this is exactly what’s going on—Bush’s supposed presidential ambitions are in fact part of an elaborate long con, in which he dupes us into engaging with the question of what Social Security ought to look like in the future, when today’s young adults retire, or how we should finance medical care in the coming age of revolutionary yet budget-busting life extension therapies. I, for one, would welcome such a deception....
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It makes more sense in Hilbert Space.
The Japanese are famously over the hill.
So, hopefully, is Jeb!
Actually, his logo should have one of them upside down exclamation points in front, too, shouldn’t it? You know? Mexican punctuation and all that?
How cozy. Jeb/Hillary. Completely informal.
QUESTIONS? GO HERE FOR AS MUCH OF THEIR SORDID STORY AS COULD BE PUT INTO A 90 MINUTE DOCUMENTARY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mYW5nmS9ps
If link fails, go to YouTube and search Hillary Clinton Exposed.
I urge you to do so quickly. She had it banned in theaters and, now that she's running, it's just a matter of time before they lean on YouTube to chuck it down the Memory Hole!
Thanks Ross Perot!
My hope is that this large field unites and attacks Hillary hard. I want Trump to say the things the others don’t gave the stones to say....I want Jeb to say that attacking Al Qaeda in Iraq with boots on the ground was the right approach...taking boots off of the ground makes Al Qaeda a threat to Iraq, Syria etc...I want Rand to hit hard on the concentration of power...I want Mitt Romney to take his PowerPoint on Obamas foreign policy across the country...each can play a role and help....then we pick the team captain and go from there
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