I’m tired of this asshole too, and hey, I’m not even wearing an Old Glory outfit, dressed in Revolutionary attire with musket at my side, or shouting garbled gobbledygoop at CPAC. So its unanimous. Count me in as just another one of the disenchanted populace in regards to Bush 3.0. All the Karl Rove money in the world isn’t going to get this jackass elected as far as I’m concerned. He has The Taint…and that shit won’t ever wash off.
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Dubya pulled the same crap in 2000, calling for a return to morality or some such which was obviously a smear on Clinton but which rubbed off on Gore. I’m ticked that Gore didn’t recognize this and call out that little frat boy.
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Apparently the Republican Party is the Party of Stupid.
I don’t think I have to run down the “legacy” of the name “bush.”
(No, I no longer capitalize it, either)
The neocons may be nuts, but they’re not stupid.
They know what they want (War 24/7) and they almost have it.
But given the economic crash for which “the village idiot” and Friends were responsible, it would require a nation of sociopaths like the bush family to install “the village idiot’s smarter brother” in the Oval office.
The neocons have a newer and better way to get what they want. They no longer need another mailable moron with strings attached to be their puppet. They will simply buy any number of lesser morons required to gain their ends. I think somewhere around 365 may be enough. A few more “elections” like 2014 will indeed give them 2/3rds of the House, 2/3rds of the Senate, and just for decoration, the White House too.
There you have it, with no bush involved.
Given the well poisoning that “43” has done, anyone who puts up another bush within the memory of this generation is going to need a shovel even a bush can’t lift to get anywhere. So far, “brother Jeb” is the biggest fizzle of a campaign season that is still a year and a half away.
Thank goodness.
And when you hear the name bush, you just know that goodness has very little to do with it.
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A woman running for the office after her husband had 2 successful terms and FOUR other terms succeeded him is not exactly what the concept of a “dynasty” was intended to mean. Jeb is the precise definition of the term…Father (who was the running mate of a popular President yet avoided being identified with his causes OR ANY OF HIS OWN), son (whose causes were flops and much much worse and who had no political identity of his own outside of his candidacies), now brother…nothing else to qualify him as a popular leader. He is not identified as championing any specific cause. In fact, he runs away from being identified with any cause, such as immigration reform…for it…against it…for some of it…look away, nothing happening here…
More likely because they are stupid.
A month after Bush wins the nomination, conservatives will be talking about him like he’s the greatest American since Ronald Reagan. Then, the morning after he loses, they’ll blame “moderates” and the Bush campaign.
When all you care about is defeating and hating the Democrats, other principles go out the window mighty quick.
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Jeb got a reality check!
Well, I don’t have much to add to that. Nicely put Sooner
When you lose the all-important uneducated Dunning-Kruger and Colonial Cosplay blocs, you’re finished in CPAC.
The evergreen delusion of these people that their preferences are relevant over those of the hyperwealthy elites who chose Republican nominees and that they won’t ultimately lend their eager, rabid support to whoever the elites tell them to vote for and convince themselves he was their top choice all along would be quaint if it wasn’t so pathetic and dangerous.
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Just stick a fork in the “Forth Estate” 'cause it is well past done.
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I’ve always relished the fact that Barbara is a descendant of Franklin Pierce, that was her maiden name, who is considered to be one of the worst presidents this country’s had. The sons of B can’t help themselves. It’s in the DNA.
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Jeb Bush feels that it his turn to be POTUS. I feel that he thinks he should be president because he is a Bush. I mean really why don’t he do the country a favor and just go away. We went thru two Bush presidencies already, and know what the policies are going to be. Tax cuts and no regulations and war, war, and more war. Give it up already.
I was unaware of this fact. You are right. There IS a legacy here.
What I still don’t get about the Bush Dynasty and people’s support for Jeb is that his father, HW, was seen largely as an ineffective one-term president. His brother is in the top 2 or 3 worst presidents of all time. As a dynasty, they have been absolutely HORRIBLE presidents. Why would anyone think they should be allowed back in office?
Sort of ruins the nature vs nurture argument. The Bush’s have had all the nurture and yet, the bad genes shine through.
The big question is, why do the right wing troops gravitate to these known screw ups?
I’ve always though the Rs regardless of where they are on their spectrum have it in for anyone named Clinton any Democrat because of Poppy’s defeat, and they will keep on looking for revenge. Jeb will be the next one to try.
eJebbie doesn’t see reality, he thinks his friends create it. Bill Kristol and the rest of the neocon a-holes will be 100% behind a bush nomination. Keep those arms flowing and boogie men alive. It is all they know and can imagine – Die nasty.
“I like Walker because I didn’t go to college and he didn’t finish,” Manship told TPM."
It’s right up there with voting for who you would rather have a beer with. That one worked out so well for us and the world…
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