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Yup, today’s nutty wingers will upset the apple cart Prescott then HW carefully guided into being for the pre-monster-greed 1%.
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Was Jeb adopted?
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Well, to be fair he watches it “for a few minutes a day”, so that tells me it’s not “too negative” for him.
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They will allow him this one mistake. Any more occurrences, and they will pundit-crush him. He may be the “smarter” Bush, but he is still a Bush. Fox will bloody him so much that he will look like a carcass at a hyena convention.
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That seals it.
He’s running.
jw1
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Jeb is the one George and Babs always wanted to run. Too bad the drunk son jumped the gun.
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He should run as a Democrat. Today’s Democrat is basically a liberal to moderate Republican from 25 years ago. He’s way too moderate for today’s GOP.
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They are gonna fry his testicles in duck fat for this.
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Purely Rovian.
jw1
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Mmmmm, duck fat.
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Well, Jeb was supposed to be Governor first, and he lost to Lawton Childs. So, that left one Bush in a big electoral college state, and that was Shrub.
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“Jeb? There’s a Phil Robertson on Line 2.
Something about a cookout.”
jw1
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When he says negative, does he really mean stupid, idiotic, insane, batshit crazy…
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Uh-oh; Jeb is going to get himself kicked out of the GOP if he keeps that up.
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Well, in fairness, he took the opportunity when it presented itself. He wasn’t supposed to win the Texas governorship against Ann Richards in 1994, but he did; Jeb lost his bid for the Florida governorship that same year. His 1998 bid was successful, but that was too late to get a sufficient foothold from which to launch a presidential bid. But Dubya by that time had won a second term, and he’d have been a fool to let the opportunity go by in deference to his brother, because it might well not have come again.
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I’d say Jeb is auditioning to be this election’s Electable Republican - and if Romney is his only competition, he might succeed. And he’s the one Republican I’d be afraid of: yes, he’s One More Bush, but he’ll probably be running against One More Clinton. And he’s probably the only Republican who can hold on to a respectable chunk of the Hispanic vote.
So I’m certainly hoping that he overreaches with this kind of obvious appeal to non-insane voters, and torpedoes his chances with Republican primary voters. The real question is, can any candidate straddle the divide between “just loony enough to win GOP approval” and “not too loony to put 51% out of reach in November”? The gap appears to be growing, but I wouldn’t be comfortable assuming that it’s unbridgeable.
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since the gop has left Jeb, maybe Jeb should leave the gop.
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That would take balls.
Jeb doesn’t have any.
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Jeb also praised his brother as a class act for not criticizing Obama as the security situation in Iraq deteriorates, saying its tearing him (GWB) up.
Because, yeah, George W. Bush would otherwise have a lot of moral high ground to level those criticisms.
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