It Puts the Lotion on Its Skin, Or Else It Gets the Hose Again: Will Jeb Bush Set Sights on the White House?
July 26th, 2010Is a rational response to this even possible? Maybe, but I’m not capable of delivering it. I’ll leave you with this, instead.
Somehow, it seems appropriate.
Americans are down that pit, most of them just don’t know it.
Via: ABC News:
This probably isn’t the first time you’ve heard someone ask if Jeb Bush is going to run for president. It won’t be the last.
Political dynasties don’t just die off, especially when they control the presidency for 12 of 22 years and have in their depth chart the extremely popular former governor of a key swing state.
Some political observers say by all rights, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush should be running for president. He has strong conservative credentials, an impeccable political pedigree, can appeal to the all-important Hispanic population, and could do well in his home state, which is populous, up for grabs, and often decides general elections.
But if you go to his website, jeb.org, there is a blank page. Is it waiting to be filled with a platform? Or is it left over from older ambitions?
No doubt the Bush brand is damaged. When Jeb’s brother George W. left office in 2009, fewer than three in ten Americans approved of his presidency.
But there is hope among Republicans that stigma is beginning to fade.
“I think a lot of people are looking back with a little — with more fondness on President Bush’s administration, and I think history will treat him well,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Tex, who is in charge of getting Republicans elected to the Senate in 2010, told C-Span this week.
I couldn’t find a link with evidence, but it has been discussed that key democratic committee members regularly meet with democratic commentators like Paul Begala and James Carville
and ex-dem reporters like George Stephanopoulos, and they are strategizing to increase the prominence of Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich in the media. I think this explains their exposure on CNN and ABC. They can’t win, and promoting them will be a good tactic for democrats to win as the lesser evil. Gingrich and Palin are the biggest egotists ever, and naturally believe their are well loved (or sent by god) and are going to run. Jeb Bush would fall in the same category.
“democrats to win as the lesser evil”
In other words, “This way for the gas, ladies and gentlemen.”
I listen to NPR or my favorite 91.3 WYEP on the long morning commute, and today NPR was bad mouthing Obama so much it was joke. Oh well, I changed the channel when I realized NPR was demonizing for having caused all of the ills of the world. Dya think I’m worried about the elections this fall? GIVE ME ANOTHER LANE TO DRIVE IN. I’m worried about alot of other things and I could care less about whether Democrats have a chance or are going to lose seats. RIDICULOUS.
Jeb Bush as a Saviour for all our ills? GET ME A BUCKET as a Monty Python movie showed. I loved silence of the lambs. Only because the character portrayed by Jodie Foster overwhelmed the evil with her intellegence and did not let go of her intuition as to what was wrong.
Much as I would like to slime the intelligence of people in the world, I will not, as it serves no purpose other to give power to darkness. Yes, I can relate to being in the pit, as can many others, but time to shine a light into the pit.