Jeb Bush for President?

To compare Jeb to W is absurd. Like he's responsible for all the idiots who kept cashing out equity and/or buying homes for $550k or more when they only made $50,000/year. The problems in florida are because everyone speculated and bought investment homes with payments that didn't even cover the interest. He strove to provide affordable housing for the middle class who couldn't afford to live where they worked.

It is the idiocy of the people who kept saying the housing market here couldn't crash because we have no more land. HA! Everytime I hear that a market (stocks, real estate, etc) won't crash this time or some variation, I know it is about to fall. Remember the dot com bubble. Every market recession is ALWAYS followed by a housing crash before things have true growth again.

Check the history, The same happened in the late 80's, housing fell in the early 90's before we had growth again. People should be held accountable for poor decisions as much as the lenders that morgage a $1,000,000 home for a middle class family earning less than $50,000. Jeb was one of the most loved Florida governor in recent times. His so called corporate deals and payoffs, brought much needed corporate building to Florida. More jobs were brought here because of his courting to large companies. I recall he fought to bring more higher paying tech firms here, while every state was fighting for these. In my area alone, IBM, Scripps and Agilysys moved their headquartes to South Florida. All of these are multibillion dollar corporations.

Do you think Charlie Crist would have won decisively if Jeb was disliked? Why don't we lay the blame where it belongs, with poor personal decisions and even poorer decisions by greedy mortgage brokers who doctored applications and convinced people to live beyond their means.

I am crushed by the betrayel of W and Jeb will forever be scarred by his relationship. He juggled the need to work for the people with the need to work the donors quite well.

Of course, that is my opinion and as always, I respect yours and the country that let's us disagree without getting shot for disagreeing with the gov't. Only have to worry about each other.

I miss the Reagan/Goldwater Republican Party more than ever. The religious right has destroyed my once beloved party.

Almost Libertarian now of FL 8:34AM November 29, 2008