Jeb Bush was central figure in enabling George to steal 2000 election

[Hawaii Hiker]

http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/exesum.htm

"This overall lack of leadership in protecting voting rights was largely responsible for the broad array of problems in Florida during the 2000 election. Furthermore, state officials ignored the pleas of some supervisors of elections for guidance and help. Especially at the highest levels, officials must take responsibility for leading on matters for which they have authority and, to the extent they do not have sole authority, to take the initiative for working with other key officials. Specific examples of the areas in which Florida officials need to improve are discussed in other parts of the Executive Summary and throughout the report. However, the need for key officials to exercise leadership in protecting the right to vote is imperative. This was not a responsibility that officials were willing to accept during the 2000 election".

[onecaliberal]

1. He was using his own personal server at home during that time as well.

Did anyone get his email? Did he turn them over to anyone, ever?

[murielm99]

2. And they will do it again,

if there is any chance.

I believe Jebbie will be the nominee. He will run against Hillary. She and her supporters will have to fight harder than Gore did. I expect a nasty fight and much cheating.

[mnhtnbb]

3. There is no doubt in my mind that if Jeb hadn't worked so hard to suppress voters

in FL, there wouldn't have been the opportunity to go to SCOTUS and have them select
his brother in 2000.

He's trouble. He's a cheat, a liar, an a$$hole, and totally committed to destroying the
concept of democracy in this country.

How anyone could support this evil man is beyond me.

[Left coast liberal]

4. Yep! I remember it well. The whole thing STUNK to high heavens!

[rock]

5. A point for the voters to remember if he becomes the GOP candidate

It's not like installing him as president would raise his ethics.

[Hekate]

6. Among the many things I recall about Jebbie.So while DUers waste energy slamming fellow Democrats...

...why isn't more energy here devoted to recounting the truth about Republicans and their genuine crimes?

I'd really like to know who that serves.

Thank you for this post.

[Moral Compass]

7. Not even entirely competent

Jeb Bush has shown himself over the years to be corrupt, misogynistic, an abuser of power--but ultimately he has shown himself to be essentially incompetent.

The botched roll-out of his campaign for President is in keeping with most of what he has done in his past. He personally promoted a corrupt water pump company in Nigeria. He decided to hitch his wagon to the Schiavo case where a decision that was intensely private was turned into a political football. He promoted a Scarlet Letter law in Florida where women who had babies out of wedlock were publicly shamed by having their names published in the local papers.

But where he really screwed up was in not bringing home the goods during his brother's campaign for President in 2000. He was tasked with purging voter rolls so that his brother could count on Florida. He failed. Utterly. This turned into an incredible cluster fuck and forced the Supreme Court to manufacture case law so that George W. Bush could be anointed President when it was pretty obvious that Al Gore was going to win in the end.

If you are going to elect someone corrupt and completely flawed as President that person should be at the very least competent.

Jeb is not even that.

[CBHagman]

8. I've always been astonished that the media was so lax about the 2000 vote in Florida...

...and by that I mean that minute-by-minute coverage of the legal battles took precedence over, for instance, focusing on the shocking spectacle of multiple standards for counting ballots, the open attempts to suppress or stop ballot counting, and the failure of Scalia and Thomas to recuse themselves from Bush v. Gore when they had, respectively, sons and a wife working for the Bushes.

And I've always thought the press would not have let it pass if some other political family had just happened to control the state which secured the scion's "win" in a contested election.

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

12. Media ran scared

Who is the Fox News guy that is related to the Shrubs? As soon as Fox declared Florida for Shrub on Election Night, the cowardly fools at the other networks backed away from their exit polling, which time has proven to have been accurate. Then once the non-Fox media awarded Florida to Shrub, Gore felt obliged to make the famous congratulatory phone call, which put us on the defensive throughout the legal mess that started the next day.
The Shrub family has been allowed to hide in plain sight since stealing the presidency in 2000. Correction - they really haven't had to hide at all, since the media was not about to go any further in proving this grandest of all larcenies.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. All bushes are bad

even shrubs

[craigmatic]

10. Yeah and he's already wotking behind the scenes to steal the vote for himself in 2016.

[davidpdx]

11. I think Bush could potentially steal multiple states if he is the nominee

and the results were close enough. Florida obviously, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Michigan and Nevada deserve an honorable mention. That's a total of 85 EVs.