Barbara Bush: Jeb shouldn’t run for president

[Baitball Blogger]

If Jeb Bush runs for president in 2016, he’ll find himself going against the wishes of his own mother.

“There are other people out there that are very qualified and we’ve had enough Bushes,” former first lady Barbara Bush told NBC’s “Today,” adding that she doesn’t think her son, the former Florida governor, will make a bid.

But, she said, it’s not because Jeb Bush would not be the best candidate. ”He’s by far the best qualified man, but no, I really don’t” want to see him run, she said.

Former first Lady Laura Bush took a more optimistic view about the prospect of a Jeb Bush presidential campaign.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/04/25/barbara-bush-jeb-shouldnt-run-for-president/

[Common Sense Party]

1. "Jeb shouldn't run--it should just be handed to him. A coronation, if you will."

[Baitball Blogger]

6. They missed the part where she said there are more than four families out there that qualify

for the presidency.

Maybe Mama Bush knows that "W" would never have made it without the corrupt operations that were taking place behind the scenes. I bet she knows they stole that election for "W."

[Heather MC]

2. You better listen to your mama boy, we don't need no mo shrubs

[graham4anything]

3. Hillary45 to kick Jeb Bush's arsse and forever end the Bush hopes of reclaiming the White House

Hillary45 to kick Jeb Bush's arsse and forever end the Bush hopes of reclaiming the WHite House

We have long been denied two titans running against each other for the heart of America.

2016 is it. Hillary45 with 450 electoral votes including Texas and Florida.

[lastlib]

4. WHO CARES what this family thinks? Bury them with their evil....

...under an unmarked slag-pile in a desert and forget them.

[peacefreak]

5. The old bat is right.

Who knew I'd ever agree with a Bush about anything.

(except about the part of he being best qualified!)

[Sekhmets Daughter]

7. The reverberations of Jeb's 2 terms as governor of FL

are still being heard and felt. He was the first Republican governor, ever, to win a second term in FL. Since his two terms we've had Crist, whom Jeb endorsed, (beware those who think Crist is a true convert) and now Scott. That's 4 consecutive terms with a Republican at the helm. The Democratic party is in shambles here...the state is a mess, and the GOP has controlled the redistricting the past two censuses.

He is smarter than his brother...I fear Jeb more than any other.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. You don't have to sell me on Crist.

As long as he has corrupt Republican rainmakers contributing to his campaign you can rest assured that he will not be the face of change in Florida.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

11. Exactly!

[Myrina]

10. Not to mention his wife's "smuggling" and daughter's addiction ....

IIRC, in the early 2000's his wife was stopped at an airport trying to smuggle goods (jewelry I think?) into the country w/o going thru customs.

And the daughter's story of addiction can't make them too proud, either.

If he runs, it will allllllll be news again ... so much for the shiny, happy image.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

12. Clothing as well...she was bringing in designer clothing

I'm not the least bit concerned with his wife's faux pas. Many people returning from foreign countries under-declare or fail to declare something. As to his daughter's addiction, few families escape that cross. I would be very disappointed if Dems tried to make either an issue.

But, he is truly a tool of the global plutocracy...that I find more than a bit worrisome.

[Myrina]

14. Dems won't have to bring either thing up, if he's primaried, the Teabaggers will.

n/t

[Sekhmets Daughter]

17. Then they are more foolish than they appear!

In reality, he is a Teabagger's dream. Once in the WH he would dismantle what is left of past progressive policies. He talks moderate...behind the scenes he behaves like an ax wielding berserker!

[Myrina]

18. Uh, yup, they ARE foolish.

n/t

[Sekhmets Daughter]

19. Then perhaps we will owe them a debt of gratitude!

[Myrina]

8. First thing the shrew has said that I agree with.

n/t

[UTUSN]

13. Old Horseface is using her beautiful mind!1 Btw, it was the BFEE family named her "horse"

I love it how she and Nancy RAYGUN were such coldblooded Rethugs in their prime, yet have frequently given the official Rethugs a pain in the neck, like how Nancy vetoed the RAYGUN worshippers on their wanting to replace FDR on the dime with RAYGUN.

As for the horseface reference, in Kitty KELLY's book, when Poppy was dating her, the brothers and cousins snickered that she looked like the family horse and secretly called her by the horse's name (I forget what it was).

The Shrubs generation give lip service to how much respect and obedience they give Horseface, so I hope that her words here will paint them into a corner. But then there's that pipsqueak, George PEE Shrub, now running for easy pickings in Texas. Poppy called him (one of) "my little Brown ones," when he was a kid. If only Horseface would blab that he ain't got the personal heft to inflict himself on the country.

[raccoon]

15. Mother knows best! nt

[WI_DEM]

16. A tacit admission that W ruined the Bush brand

[BarbaRosa]

20. Too bad she didn't have that moment of clarity 13 years ago.