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John Aloysius Farrell

Jeb Bush for President in 2012? After Sanford, Ensign Etc., It's Not Impossible

June 26, 2009 05:32 PM ET | John Aloysius Farrell | Permanent Link | Print

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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.

Jeb Bush for President

I can only refer to Proverbs 26:11. Truly the GOP is lost.

oscillation total

0 believed evidence 2007 uncertain 1800s

Not another Bush

The Bush family ruined the GOP and now the country, setting the stage for the socialist nincompoops that now occupy the White House. The last thing we need is another stinking Bush in office.

End of the GOP and I fell fine

"Palin Resigns."

Gov. Palin has set the standard, there are a lot of idiots in politics that should follow her example. In the GOP, along with the troubles of Gov. Mark Sanford (R, SC), and others -- the way to the White House is now obtainable for Jeb Bush.

NOT!

safer, a fairy tale

To Susan Willet of CT:

Look, I'm wearing tiger-proof shoes! How can you tell? You don't see any tigers around, do you?

Saying we're safer because we haven't been attacked again is like saying you're in perfect health because you haven't died yet. Bush did ZERO to protect this country (look at the way they're "protecting" our borders). His so-called "anti-terrorist security measures" were only lip-service, nothing more. And no, we don't have to show gratitude to the man who has done more to disgrace and vilify this country than any other president in the modern age. Watch something besides FoxNews, already.

He took good care of Wall St., though.

oh please....

.... their time is at an end.... just go quietly into the night... "thank him for the last 8 yrs of safety... yep, sure will... where do you get your information? It just amazes me how the "Bush" supporters think... forget the economy, forget the banking crisis, forget Iraw, forget the lies to get us into the Iraq war; after all, we're safe... Such selective memories. you broke it; you didn't fix it, and no another one pops up... oh please..

...Right

George W. Bush was faced with a problem. A huge problem. I will admit that his way to stop the problem wasn't so affective, but the defence against the problem was. He created the Department of Homeland Security, but he also didn't help us in Iraq. Jeb, however, was rated as one of the best governors of the year (or so I think?) and would be perfect for VP for Romney in my opinion, but not president.

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John Aloysius Farrell is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. An award-winning Washington reporter, he has written for The Boston Globe and The Denver Post and is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.

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