Jeb Bush's son: Dad will "more than likely" run for president in 2016

[IDemo]

Source: CBS News

Jeb Bush's son said it's "more than likely" his dad will run for president in 2016 in an interview that aired Sunday.

George P. Bush, Jeb Bush's eldest son, was interviewed by ABC News. The younger Bush is knee-deep in his own campaign this year, running for Texas land commissioner.

ABC's Jon Karl asked Bush whether his father is running for president.

"I think he's still assessing it," Bush said, offering the same demurral his father and other members of his family have given in recent months.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeb-bushs-son-dad-will-more-than-likely-run-for-president-in-2016/

[Tikki]

1. Dear Jeb Bush son...Your dad is an ass and he will lose miserably...

Please encourage him to spend your inheritance trying...


Tikki

[ballyhoo]

11. Depends...If Obama does a mass amnesty after the election, it will take

about a year to really be felt in the unemployment rolls among the working poor. Then it starts, and a Republican will win handily. Bush might be that Republican, irrespective of the misdeeds of his brother. All my opinion.

[Tikki]

12. That scenario will not be what happens along the West Coast....maybe where you live.

Tikki

[ballyhoo]

14. I'm on the west coast and talk to hundreds of people daily. Thank you

for your response.

[Tikki]

16. Your welcome. Farmers and ranchers along the Central Coast are farming in Mexico already because

they can't get enough skilled labor here.

Each region has their own particular needs.


Tikki

[ballyhoo]

19. Sorry for delay. Was on jury duty. Well, I understand your

comment but don't understand the causation of thought between your post and people on the west coast electing or not electing George Bush after a mass amnesty being granted by Obama. I live in Long Beach on a street dotted with Mexican Americans. Almost to a person they are furious about an impending amnesty for illegals. Some get angry when I question them about it. We will have to agree to disagree here.

[Tikki]

22. And I live along the Central Coast where we feed the World. There are complaints from

those who are afraid amnesty will lead to having to pay higher wages to legal immigrants working in agriculture.

Poverty is poverty no matter where it is found and boosh and buddies did more to cause the the inequality
in income than any others. There is no reason to think boosh the jeb would do anything differently.


Tikki

[ballyhoo]

23. He wouldn't. It will be gut vote from low info voters who will

think what you said in your first sentence and also those who will think the other direction--that they will lose their jobs because of lower income people available. A paradox, if you will.

[Tikki]

24. A paradox, for sure...

I love Long Beach, by the way...we were just there for the Long Beach Cambodian Town Film Festival.

Tikki

[ballyhoo]

25. Well, it has changed. We may leave there next year

after 44 years and go to either Belize or New Zealand, depending on what my wife says. I've got maybe ten years left before I meet my maker and I'd like to spend them on a beach and working part-time in a clinic with my RN wife. I love Cambodians and know quite a few from years ago, which is all I'll say about it. Good luck to you Tiki. I have to do a consult.

[INdemo]

26. So is Jeb your choice?

[ballyhoo]

27. I hate all Bushs, but I try to answer questions here how

I think things will happen. When people don't do that they impart nothing.

[billhicks76]

42. I Warned People

In 2008 it was decided that Jeb Bush vs Hillary Clinton would be the ticket. This was decided by Wall St and the Military/Intelligence/Surveillance/MassIncarceration complex. We have been completely manipulated.The Clintons and The Bushes have long been in bed with each other and people on our side need to wake the Hell up and accept this disappointing truth. There was a reason Clinton covered up and excuse Bush Sr crimes in 1993...to pave the way for his son to take the reins when power was traded back. There is a reason Obama didn't go after Bush too and is currently suppressing the Senate Torture Report...its to rehabilitate the tarnished Bush name so Jeb can return the Bush family to power...the Bush family whose name emblazons CIA headquarters. Insiders are saying that Obama is staling the release of the Torture Report until after the 2014 November elections because he is banking on a Republican victory. How messed up is that. And if Jeb loses in 2016 they have their B-Team back up with Hillary. This whole affair is disgusting. Hillary and Obama have just become puppets of the Republican led intelligence agencies. The Bush family aren't just bad people who steal from our country...they are EVIL beyond belief and people in our party have to approach this election with that mindset or we are all screwed. Time to tac to a different path and start treating these criminals like the dishonest troglodytes that they are.

[ballyhoo]

69. Yep. It all began with Prescott Bush, and

went from there. The Bushes and the Clintons are neocon tag-teamers. There is much more as I am sure you are aware.

[CrispyQ]

74. Well that was a depressing post to start the morning with.

What's more depressing is I agree with every word.

[billhicks76]

78. Too Bad I Get Attacked

By disrupters like Vanilla who try to equate disagreement with going along with neocons who've hijacked our party with conspiracy theory. But I'm glad progressives are rising up to purge these sell out corporatists who either are not in touch with reality or worse are self serving egomaniacs who prefer power and backslapping bedfellows to helping the oppressed

[calimary]

67. But you make a good point, ballyhoo.

We live in a short-attention-span society now, with dumbed-down low-information voters and other assorted idiots. Frankly, I think if indeed we ARE now suppressing the vote, then THEY'RE the ones who should be barred from voting. People don't remember and they don't care and they'll swallow, whole, what they're force-fed by Pox Noise and limbaugh-&-clones. Which is one BIG reason why WE have to be the firewall. WE have to spread the truth and the facts. WE have to remind people what happens when you put a bush in charge. WE gave to remind people of how horrible the first decade of this century was - with two wars, at least one of them illegal, put on our national credit card, our debt exploded, our economy tanked, and the last President before him (Bill Clinton), left him with a budget surplus. And he TRASHED IT ALL. And left us with war criminals out freely walking the earth and hoping maybe they get another shot at it, too, cuz they sure made a lot of money last time.

And I GUARANTEE you, NOTHING of that is going to get out to the public through Pox Noise. NOTHING. They're all gonna have amnesia about that. Never will be heard a discouraging word. As a matter of fact, the rewriting of recent history is already underway, where they're trying to rehabilitate the "legacy" of george w. bush. So it's gonna fall to US to make sure the truth gets out there as far and wide as we can push it.

DO NOT make the mistake of trusting the other media to do anything remotely like what needs to be done. Not even MSNBC will come close. So it's gonna be up to US.

[ballyhoo]

71. Well, it's probably too late for this election--the

die is cast. But looking forward we need to start discussing things in a different way. I pay no attention to the media. I haven't watched tv in over 20 years now except whatever is on when I walk through the living room. I like to talk to real people to see what they think, and I come in contact with a lot of people on a weekly basis. I'm going to try harder to confine my conversations here to things happening here in this country rather than Ukraine or Syria. I believe ISIS is a scam, a creation with many potential uses. But there is really nothing we can do about it now or ever until somehow people become more educated and informed--in that order. The Code that Crosby, Stills and Nash sang about is lost. We have to find it-- And we have to look unaffected by enemy chants.

[Kablooie]

35. You don't know that he's an ass.

He may be exactly the opposite.
He may be a dick.

[Joe Bacon]

43. The media will lie any lie for Jeb.

They will lie for Jeb the same way they lied for Dumbya in 2000!

[pocoloco]

59. Well, at least you are half right!!

[Lobo27]

2. Today it seemed like they were trying to make George P.

Some sort of GoP hispanic icon, lol. He was all over Univision.

[Miles Archer]

8. Ah yes, George P. Bush. He's a Chris Brown kind of icon.

George P. Bush might be a hunkalicious young Republican, but he still seems a bit creepy. So TSG wasn't too surprised to learn that "P" was involved in a troubling 1994 incident described in this Metro-Dade Police Department report. On December 31, 1994, Bush showed up at 4 AM at the Miami home of a former girlfriend. He proceeded to break into the house via the woman's bedroom window, and then began arguing with his ex's father. Bush, then a Rice University student, soon fled the scene. But he returned 20 minutes later to drive his Ford Explorer across the home's front lawn, leaving wide swaths of burned grass in his wake. Young Bush avoided arrest when the victims declined to press charges. (3 pages)

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/nut-some-soup-0

[yeoman6987]

31. Seems rather minor incident 20 years ago

I just hope we have a formidable opponent for Mr.Bush. I can't imagine Americans giving the Bush Family another try. But I don't think we should underestimate it.

[TBF]

60. Evidently you haven't met George P -

the kid is a moron. He makes W look intelligent ...

[Rozlee]

28. We won't buy it.

It won't be the first time some malinchista tried to impress us by speaking Spanish and trying to convince us he's one of us. Some preppy with acres of whitened barracuda teeth is just going to send us to the nearest sex offender website to see if his picture is on it.

[deurbano]

3. god help us.

[Duval]

36. My thought exactly. n/t

[Paper Roses]

4. Spare me! I think I am going to be sick.

I've had it with anything or anyone named 'bush', and am tired of Clinton. Are we stuck with only those with dynastic names? Surely in this country, with close to 400,000,000 people, there are capable and interested people to head the government. I'm sick of the hearing about the last empires.

Sure wish Elizabeth Warren would step up to the plate.

[LittleGirl]

9. +1 Thank you! n/t

[logosoco]

5. Tell your dad he needs to listen to your grandma. nt

[calimary]

6. Hey guys - we've gotta be on the alert here. jebbie AND his son have to be watched. CAREFULLY.

And don't take it for granted either! DO NOT count on the American people to remember what a debacle a bush left us in. EVEN NOW, the GOP is plotting to rewrite history and brainwash the public into forgetting all the shit he left us with. WE HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION! AND - if you don't want any more bushes in the White House, then we have to watch this george p. bush, too. He's trouble. Maybe not so much now, but he's building. He's planning for a run, eventually, himself, and this is how he's building toward it. Taking a page straight outta ralph reed and running for some local nothing office. And from there, build a power base and a track record and clout. WE HAVE TO WATCH THIS CAREFULLY, and be ready. We have to cut george p. bush off before he can gain ground. Consider it preventive medicine. Like an Ebola vaccine.

Otherwise, I GUARANTEE YOU, we will have to fight off yet another bush assault on the White House. BANK ON IT. He's trouble. Getting all dressed up and ready to fuck shit up - as my boys in the band would say. He's being groomed for it. It's the "family birthright" they're going for. The glorious World's Biggest Entitlement Program. And NOBODY subscribes to it like "America's would-be royal family."

Politically, we've had the Adamses. We've had the Roosevelts. We've had the Kennedys. And the bushes. And I suspect the bushes consider it their "sacred quest" to assert themselves as America's latter-day "royal family." And that should be undercut and stalled - as much as we possibly can.

And one more thing, the little prince george p. probably feels strongly - or maybe he's being fed it by others in and around the bush family, that the bush family name has to be rehabilitated after uncle george fucked everything up. And it's gonna fall to him. He has to salvage and rehabilitate the family reputation, that was thoroughly shat upon by george the second. And I'll bet he thinks he's up to it. The anointed one. That's a very powerful urge that would drive someone forward on this - if he's considered the "salvation" of his family. And they're counting on most of short-attention-span America to forget - especially if all that lovely koch money pours in on media campaigns to try and help the "rehabilitation of bush" along, and assist short-attention-span America in forgetting what happened and the lessons that should have been learned from trusting our precious nation to the bushes.

DON'T DOZE OFF, DEMS!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!! Take this threat SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[katmondoo]

13. George P. is creepy looking.

Weird eyes. He can join my Gov Rick Scott of Florida in the scary looks department

[calimary]

44. I agree. But what's creepy about him is what's BEHIND the "pretty face".

His ideas, his agenda, his family sense of "entitlement" - their sense of being "entitled to rule" - THAT is what is downright hideous to me. We have to keep an eye on this one. We need to start on offense, ASAP. Nip it in the bud with this one, before he can gain too much power and clout and positioning. They're maneuvering with him - BANK on it.

[JDPriestly]

50. Jeb Bush has a weak looking face.

He is not physically attractive enough to be elected in my opinion, but I do think he will get the nomination because he is just all the Republicans have left.

[Jamastiene]

62. I'm so sick and tired of idiots electing more Bushes.

When will people learn?

[Populist_Prole]

7. Funny: My right wing father and his RW friends like JB the absolute least of all the contenders

I don't know if this is good news or bad.........

[valerief]

10. A word in the hand is infinitely better than any number of Bushes anywhere.

And the word is BernieSandersforPresident.

[MoreGOPoop]

15. Pervasive effers!

"I say, America, stay out the Bushes. Stay out the Bushes. Stay out the Bushes." - Rev. Jesse Jackson

[tom_kelly]

29. I'm usually wrong

but didn't Rev Al say that?

[MoreGOPoop]

37. Here's a link to transcript of Rev. Jesse's

speech at the 2000 Democratic National Convention.

http://partners.nytimes.com/library/politics/camp/081600jackson-text.html

Here's hoping the SC5 don't install another one.

[tom_kelly]

41. Once again

I'm wrong. Thanks for the link.

[KinMd]

17. Useless Fact: The last time the Republicans won the Presidency WITHOUT a Bush on the ticket

was Nixon-Agnew in 1972. You make it without Bush or Nixon and you go back to Hoover-Curtis in 1928

[silvershadow]

18. Oh. nt

[PumpkinAle]

20. Depends if the Kochs like him

if so he will be running, if not he won't.

The right wingers are hanging on the Kochs every word and will do their beckoning.

[Paula Sims]

40. And Sheldon Adelson (n/t)

[tomm2thumbs]

21. the video of Barbara saying 'we've had enough Bush's in the White House' will undo any hope he has

no matter how they play it, the honesty of her answer -- which she offered unprompted and so genuinely -- sends the real message that no damage control specialist will ever be able to frost over and add sprinkles to in order to fix.

[Steviehh]

30. Bush v. Clinton

I hope Rand Paul runs.

[IDemo]

38. Me, too

He can serve as the repubs' Ralph Nader.

[secondwind]

32. well, that's just peachy...

[stillwaiting]

33. ShoooooOOoOoOoOOooooocker!

So many of the potentially leading Republican candidates have been sullied with scandal.

I won't be surprised to see Scott Walker lose, but he IS sullied with scandal even if he does win. That's convenient.

I have thought for many years that Jeb would run, and we must remember that he doesn't even have to win to become President.

The press will bow down and protect the Bushes as always.

I won't be surprised if Jeb wins the nomination. I'll be surprised if he doesn't.

[EEO]

34. Swell.

[Paula Sims]

39. Possible campaign slogans. . .

"I'm sorry"
"I'm the smart one"
"Don't hold it against me"

[Ivywoods55]

45. And son your dad will...

More than likely, lose, as well as look like the clown that 99% of all Republican candidates look like. But we welcome his attempt at running...this should be fun, real fun!

[WillyT]

46. Oh Goody... Bush Clinton Version 2.0

[blkmusclmachine]

47. The Bushes want to finish off what they started--a complete destruction of our economy, standards of

living and the Constitution/Bill of Rights, and turn it all over to the 1% and make us slaves to the TBTF in our own Country.

[Shoonra]

48. Campaign slogan: Maybe three times is the charm!

Or "What are the chances that all three would be bad?"

[JDPriestly]

49. He will probably get the nomination, but he is boring and will have trouble with his brother's

record.

[Prophet 451]

51. He'll probably win too

The right own the media and the media tell the people what to think.

[Kalidurga]

52. Jeb Bush will make a whole lot of GOTV ads...

So, I hope he runs. I hope he gets the nomination. And I hope we can come up with some strong competition for Hillary. If she wins the nomination it will make her a much stronger candidate. If she loses we get a fresh approach in the Democratic Party.

[davidpdx]

53. The nightmare scenario: Bush vs. Clinton

Jebby runs and the D's put up Hillary and we have Bush vs. Clinton again. The vocal minority are going to scream how Hillary Clinton is the only person who can win (where have we heard THAT before?) and that we must nominate her. Can you hear it now? "She is our only hope", "Hillary deserves to be president", etc. etc.

The train is quickly speeding down the tracks and that is where we are headed.

[Divernan]

57. U.S. has increasingly shallow gene pool for political office.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/23/american-political-dynasties-midterm-senate-clinton-bush?CMP=fb_us

The American dynasties dominating the midterm elections

Contrary to the American ideal of equality and a classless system, the 2014 midterms are rife with political families seeking to use parental clout to sway the races, with the Clintons and Bushes looming above it all

In that case, these midterm elections are not just silly but quite ridiculous. The US seems to be drawing its political leadership from an increasingly shallow puddle of genes. For the sake of brevity this can be illustrated solely by the Senate races that are considered “in play” this year. The race in Georgia is between Michelle Nunn, whose father used to be a Georgia senator, and David Purdue, whose cousin Sonny Purdue was once Georgia’s governor; Alaska Democratic senator Mark Begich’s father, Nick, was the state’s congressman; Arkansas Democratic senator Mark Pryor’s father David was himself once senator.

It goes on: Louisiana senator Mary Landrieu is the daughter of former New Orleans mayor Moon, and sister of current New Orleans mayor Mitch; Kentucky Democratic senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is the daughter of Jerry Lundergan, former chairman of the Kentucky Democratic party; Colorado Democratic senator Mark Udall is the son of late Arizona congressman Morris, and cousin of current New Mexico senator Tom, who is himself the son of late interior secretary Stewart; Kansas Republican senator Pat Roberts is the son of Charles, who was briefly the chairman of the Republican national committee; North Carolina Democratic senator Kay Hagan is the niece of former Florida senator Lawton Chiles.

[Nihil]

80. The 1% (0.1%) is shallow as well as narrow.

Mind you, it really helps when a large chunk of the voting population is both low information
and gullible (but I repeat myself).

[True Blue Door]

54. Will this country never be rid of the Harkonnen?

I know it's wrong to judge people by their family, but that family consistently churns out human garbage.

[Cha]

55. Oh goody.. it will be fun watching Jeb get down to out stupid mitt..appeasing the bloody thirsty

TBaGGERS.

[MFM008]

56. good, good

And I will "very likely" vote against him. The gop isnt fit to run bath water let alone govern.

[madokie]

58. If I was a betting man

I'd bet money that big head jeb will run

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

61. Just in time for Halloween

Very scary

[freebrew]

63. The real question isn't ...

"can he win?". That doesn't matter. There are 5 RWNJs on the SCOTUS. * didn't win.

The real question is how much more are the people going to let this evil, fascist family steal?

How many more decent politicians have to die because the BFEE wants more $$$?

"There is more stupidity in the universe than hydrogen." I think Albert Einstein said that, or maybe Zappa.

[tartan2]

64. I know you all will think I'm crazy but

it's a done deal! Hillary Clinton will be our next President. It's simple she will be our first woman President and there is no other way short of taking her out that she will step aside! I hope to hell I never see another Bush in the White House during my lifetime which at my age will probably end in the next 25 years if not sooner.

[yurbud]

65. If it's Jeb vs. Hillary that would be depressing

[workinclasszero]

66. Stay out of the bushes

Hillary vs Jebby.

Jeb is just like his daddy. "A kinder, gentler, machine-gun hand".

What will Jebby run on? A return to the halcyon daze of his frat boy king brother?

[czarjak]

68. Tell me once again....

The meaning of insanity?

[RussBLib]

70. ooooo - let's spend hours and days discussing what this means

I get so sick of the news media sometimes.

[yellowcanine]

72. George P. Bush takes after Uncle George W. Bush. "All hat, no cattle."

But he would look good as the guy on the top of the wedding cake.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

75. That was Alice Roosevelt Longworth that said that.

That was in the recent ken burns series on The Roosevelts.
Alice was Teddy's daughter, and a party girl.
She said that Thomas Dewey (who ran against Truman in 1948) looked like the little man on top of the wedding cake.


(Third-generation Democrat here)

[yellowcanine]

79. Yes Alice was a real wit and she did say it about Tom Dewey.

But an editorial in the Louisville Courier-Journal had the last word on Dewey as an empty suit....

"No presidential candidate in the future will be so inept that four of his major speeches can be boiled down to these historic four sentences: Agriculture is important. Our rivers are full of fish. You cannot have freedom without liberty. Our future lies ahead."


Of course they did not have the benefit of living through the Mitt Romney campaign of 2012 or they might have altered the part about "no presidential candidate in the future."

[CrispyQ]

73. If it's Clinton vs Bush, I'm writing my vote in.

[Blue Owl]

76. Poppy II: Electric Boogiloo

n/t

[bigwillq]

77. Yuck.

No more Bush. No more Clinton.

[L0oniX]

81. America the stupid. When politics is like a tv show.

...or is it more like the Mafia ....uhhh we're gonna keep it in the family.