A Note from Jeb Bush [he's running]

Like many of you, our family was blessed with the opportunity to gather together over the recent Thanksgiving holiday.

Columba and I are so proud of the wonderful adults our children have become, and we loved spending time with our three precious grandchildren.

We also talked about the future of our nation. As a result of these conversations and thoughtful consideration of the kind of strong leadership I think America needs, I have decided to actively explore the possibility of running for President of the United States.

In January, I also plan to establish a Leadership PAC that will help me facilitate conversations with citizens across America to discuss the most critical challenges facing our exceptional nation. The PAC’s purpose will be to support leaders, ideas and policies that will expand opportunity and prosperity for all Americans.

In the coming months, I hope to visit with many of you and have a conversation about restoring the promise of America.

Best wishes to you and your families for a happy holiday season. I’ll be in touch soon.

I have always seen Jeb as extremely Liberal. Why he bothers to remain in the Republican camp is a mystery.

That applies to a lot of other so called ‘Republicans’, too.

If he ran as a Democrat I am pretty sure he’d have a much better chance of getting into the WH.

Maybe, Evita can select Jeb as her running mate. THAT would work for her AND him.

Your guess is as good as mine. The ‘establishment’ nominee could be any one of a deceptively 'marketable' but wholly beatable and equally compromised crowd of creeps who will mealy-mouth what EVER they are programmed to spew....

THEN they'll hit the trail AS IF they speak for Conservatives nationwide.

We see this in every national election and it is rote by now. How the GOP will survive much more of this self-destructive BS is beyond me.

Your theory may be right....and non Democrat who is showing a pulse might be any Democrat. In 2008, we saw both McCain and Obama run against BUSH...and no way any Republican could run away from Bush harder than any Democrat.

I think it’s likely that both party nominees are going to “run against Obama” in ‘16. No way any Democrat wins that....or almost no way.

But I don’t think Jeb is smart enough to understand that. I think he really thinks his moderate mushy way is what the country wants, period. I doubt he’ll run hard against Obama.

If he ran as a Democrat I am pretty sure he’d have a much better chance of getting into the WH.

That's true, but the Democrats are sure they must go HARD LEFT to win.....while the GOP e thinks they must go FULL MODERATE to win. History shows when the Dems go hard left, they always get routed. When the GOP goes moderate, they always get routed (unless both happen at same time, like 2000 and 2004, then it's damned close). The last moderate to win as a Republican was HW Bush - but he won in 1988 because people assumed he was going to continue the Reagan years. When he was "outed" as a moderate in 92, he got crushed.

"I hope to visit with many of you and have a conversation about restoring the promise of America."

If you're serious about that, Mr. Bush, all you have to do is to begin to educate and "restore" the ideas and principles which set into motion the "promise" of America in its original philosophical statement--our "Declaration of Independence" of 1776--and the subsequent "Constitution of the United States of America" in 1787. After all, those ideas brought millions of oppressed people who longed for freedom to these shores.

If a Jeb Bush, or any other candidate, were to be able to successfully articulate to voters the ideas of those two founding documents so that the tyrannical and coercive "counterfeit ideas" of so-called "progressives" were exposed, then perhaps what he calls "the promise of America" might be restored.

Note to Mr. Bush: Perhaps the name, "Gruber," may be a starting point. After that, the 85 essays of The Federalist, explaining in detail the principles underlying that Constitution, which were intended to enlighten "the People" in the States as to the underpinnings of their liberty and their role as "keepers" of the Constitution (Justice Story)

The following is excerpted from "Our Ageless Constitution," p. 181, in an essay entitled, "Will the Great American Experiment Succeed?":

"It was John Adams who said: "The foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people." Clearly, the Founders' passion was liberty, and in order to secure that liberty, they sought out and incorporated into the United States Constitution those ideas and principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

"The French historian, Guizot, once asked James Russell Lowell, "How long will the American republic endure?"

Lowell replied: "As long as the IDEAS of the men who founded it continue dominant."

"Herein lies the answer to the question, "Will the Experiment Succeed?"

"It can and will succeed IF the motivating "principle or passion in the minds of the people" is LIBERTY, and if that passion causes them to exert the determination and will to complete the needed restoration of the IDEAS upon which the great American experiment was based." ---(End of excerpted material)

I call it “political nepotism”. Having a certain surname somehow ‘qualifies’ or ‘entitles’ someone to lead or be elected.

Nepotism in politics has only worsened government, not helped it. The Kennedy’s, the Bush’s, the Landreu’s, the Romney’s, etc. have done this. We should choose candidates with the best IDEAS, CONVICTIONS and CHARACTER, not because of one’s last name. Many candidates who would be great leaders have been overlooked because of someone elses surname. Its just plain foolish.

If I were a candidate now, I would be hitting Mitt and Jeb hard over this. “It is not about YOU, it is about AMERICA!”

>> In the coming months, I hope to visit with many of you and have a conversation about restoring the promise of America.

I’ll bet that shallow one-sided conversation will mostly be about demanding our money... right Jeb? After all, you don’t really care about what we think; you already know what’s best for us.

>> Onward, Jeb Bush

Up yours, Jeb Bush.

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