Jeb Bush for President in 2012? After Sanford, Ensign Etc., It's Not Impossible
By John Aloysius Farrell, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
It's looking highly likely that the 2012 Republican presidential nominee will be a retread.
With Gov. Mark Sanford at wit's end, and Sen. John Ensign joining Sanford at adultery camp, and Gov. Jon Huntsman going to China, and Gov. Bobby Jindal flopping in his first big national TV appearance, and Gov. Mitch Daniels saying he doesn't want to be president, and Gov. Sarah Palin running such an undisciplined operation up there in Alaska, the prospect for fresh blood is thinning.
We got some old party leaders from down South—Gov. Haley Barbour and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich—and a couple of former governors who couldn't beat John McCain last time out—Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee.
And then there is Jeb.
Yes, my friends. It is sad but true. We have not seen the end of the Bush dynasty yet.
Two things must happen for Americans to forget George W. Bush's awful performance, and let his brother Jeb have a turn in the Oval Office. First, a lot of other GOP contenders must self-destruct. Second, Barack Obama has to fail spectacularly.
The Republican hopefuls are doing their part.
So now it's time to see how nasty the old hands from the Bush administration get. Watch them carefully in the coming months. From W on down, the more the Bushies rip Obama, the more they are thinking Jeb in 2012.
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Dr Tom COBURN - JEB BUSH 2012
Experienced Crisis Management Ticket - their Moment in AMERICAN and World history is upon us....will dominate hispanic vote , Mavericks , crossover appeal
SO somebody "flopping in his first TV appearance" eliminates him forever?
Regardless of his other accomplishments?
That only applies to Republicans, right? I seem to remember an absolutely horrid speech Clinton gave at a convention a cycle or two before he was elected.
Seriously, one speech that the mainstream media pronounces inadequate eliminates someone?
No wonder the country is screwed. I guess all you have to be able to do is read a speech off a teleprompter and you are good to go. Oh wait...
Jeb sabotaged Palin
The idiots who organized Palin's "media plan" for McCain were Jeb Bush loyalists. Jeb was behind the strategy of hiding Palin until she could be sabotaged by Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric. The Bushes hate McCain and did all they could to defeat him and tried their best to destroy Palin.
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