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, "Thats 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
markiv
(1,489 posts)memories are short, but not that short
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)landolfi
(234 posts)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)till the end of time
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)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.
cstanleytech
(26,291 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)MORE into the grave than he did.
NO MORE fucking Bush members in the White House.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)With justification, too.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)He shoudl know how toxic the Bush name is.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)Mars, or maybe Pluto
sofa king
(10,857 posts)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.
olddad56
(5,732 posts)StarryNite
(9,444 posts)Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel
(3,273 posts)Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)I doubt anyone is going to want another Bush in the White House ever again.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)This family is not done adding their destructive brand on America.
tartan2
(314 posts)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.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Initech
(100,068 posts)Paper Roses
(7,473 posts)We the people cannot be that stupid.
Then again_____Is he a member of the NRA?
tanyev
(42,552 posts)That should really help.
adicortez
(47 posts)Let's do this thing!!!!