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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 11:03 AM Apr 2013

George W. Bush Hopes Jeb Bush Will Run In 2016

Source: Huffington Post

Former President George W. Bush told Parade Magazine in an interview published Friday that he hopes his brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, will run for president in 2016.

When asked if the country is ready for another Bush, he said, "That’s for Jeb to figure out, you know what I mean? I would hope that people would judge [him], if Jeb were to run, on his merits and his track record.…So I hope he will run."

The former Florida governor has not made a decision about the race in 2016, but he said in March that there is no "baggage" from his brother's two terms as president and low popularity.

Jeb Bush's own favorable rating is only 30 percent among general election voters, according to a recent Public Policy Polling survey.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/19/george-bush-jeb-bush_n_3111733.html

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George W. Bush Hopes Jeb Bush Will Run In 2016 (Original Post) onehandle Apr 2013 OP
political suicide for the GOP markiv Apr 2013 #1
Shrub and I seldom agreed on things, but this time...maybe so FailureToCommunicate Apr 2013 #2
It would be great political theater landolfi Apr 2013 #3
The whole diseased psychotic family should be barred from holding any public office for at least Vincardog Apr 2013 #4
Will that be long enough? jmowreader Apr 2013 #19
Hopefully he wont run as one Bush son was more than this country could handle. nt cstanleytech Apr 2013 #5
I think Georgie means, Jebby should run America SoapBox Apr 2013 #6
If Jeb can win, he can finally claim that history has redeemed him. Orsino Apr 2013 #16
Still completely out of touch with reality = no surprise Coyotl Apr 2013 #7
As far away from the US as is possible Demeter Apr 2013 #8
I don't have to hope that he will run. I do hope he will lose. sofa king Apr 2013 #9
If Jeb Bush runs, plan on the 2016 election being rigged. olddad56 Apr 2013 #10
I hope he does too! StarryNite Apr 2013 #11
2016? But I heard it was in 2014... Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel Apr 2013 #12
We won't have cleaned up the mess from the last Bush by 2016. Ganja Ninja Apr 2013 #13
He'll run, his mother gave a hint when she said she wished for Sarah Palin to stay in Alaska. Jefferson23 Apr 2013 #14
I get so sick to my stomach tartan2 Apr 2013 #15
The RW gang will sink billions into another loser Sunlei Apr 2013 #17
Gross, the last thing we need is the BFEE in charge again. Initech Apr 2013 #18
Barf! I hope I don't live long enough to see another Bush in the White House. Paper Roses Apr 2013 #20
And if he does, I hope you get out there front and center on the campaign trail for him. tanyev Apr 2013 #21
Clinton vs Bush II? adicortez Apr 2013 #22

landolfi

(234 posts)
3. It would be great political theater
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 11:18 AM
Apr 2013

to see Jeb squirming as the press asks what he thought of his brother's policies. Oh, wait, he'll just blame the Liberal Media for all the "gotcha" questions.

Vincardog

(20,234 posts)
4. The whole diseased psychotic family should be barred from holding any public office for at least
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 11:22 AM
Apr 2013

till the end of time

jmowreader

(50,557 posts)
19. Will that be long enough?
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 03:19 PM
Apr 2013

We need a nice little law that says any member of any family that has materially profited by trading with genocidal regimes is permanently barred from elected office and is ineligible to serve as the director or an officer of any company doing business in the U.S. This would solve the problem of Bushes in high places.

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
6. I think Georgie means, Jebby should run America
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 11:42 AM
Apr 2013

MORE into the grave than he did.

NO MORE fucking Bush members in the White House.

 

Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
7. Still completely out of touch with reality = no surprise
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 12:03 PM
Apr 2013

He shoudl know how toxic the Bush name is.

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
9. I don't have to hope that he will run. I do hope he will lose.
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 01:07 PM
Apr 2013

He'll run, if only to protect his father and his brother from future prosecutions by preventing the release of additional records from the previous Bush Administrations.

Jeb had his own role in many of those crimes: allowing the Brooks Brothers riot and refusing to prosecute Abramoff and others for it; holding the door open for illegally submitted late absentee ballots from the military (how many of those kids are dead or insane now?); taking off with a C-130 loaded with ballots and landing without any; dragging his feet on anthrax investigations relating to the death of the guy who published the photos of the Bush twins drunk....

It will be fun, lots and lots of fun, to revisit those darkly criminal incidents, which were successfully covered up and not prosecuted, but which were never, ever explained and therefore which are perfectly reasonable to ask about... and be told new lies about them. A Presidential campaign is the perfect place to tie those balloons to Jeb and just... watch 'em float up there. And, it will be an excellent way to underscore how truly awful things were then, and how much they have improved since.

Most of the career criminals who started with Nixon and gamed their way to the top with Shrub are retired to cushy and incredibly wealthy lives. I don't think they'll be willing to go out and steal it again for Jeb, because they are comfortable and safe staying out of it. So Jeb might be a better candidate than his narcissistic and ignorant brother, but he'll have the B-list of campaign supporters--the chumps who have lost the last six Presidential elections and who only got close enough to steal them twice.

Jeb Bush is their guy this time, that's for sure, exactly because Republicans haven't come close enough to steal a general election without a Bush on the ticket in twenty years. He's all they have left, and I wish to see his family's criminal career and his party totally destroyed.

So fuckin' bring it on.

Ganja Ninja

(15,953 posts)
13. We won't have cleaned up the mess from the last Bush by 2016.
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 02:18 PM
Apr 2013

I doubt anyone is going to want another Bush in the White House ever again.

Jefferson23

(30,099 posts)
14. He'll run, his mother gave a hint when she said she wished for Sarah Palin to stay in Alaska.
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 02:27 PM
Apr 2013

This family is not done adding their destructive brand on America.

tartan2

(314 posts)
15. I get so sick to my stomach
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 02:46 PM
Apr 2013

when I think there maybe a remote possibility that another Bush could win the White House. My God that is my worst fucking nightmare! I just hope we aren't that fucking stupid. I don't believe this country can survive another Bush in the White House.

Paper Roses

(7,473 posts)
20. Barf! I hope I don't live long enough to see another Bush in the White House.
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 03:37 PM
Apr 2013

We the people cannot be that stupid.
Then again_____Is he a member of the NRA?

tanyev

(42,552 posts)
21. And if he does, I hope you get out there front and center on the campaign trail for him.
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 04:51 PM
Apr 2013

That should really help.

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