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

Somehow Bush won re-election in a landslide. Typically demtard that don't know their ass froma hole in the ground.

Bite me of OH 9:38PM October 23, 2008

Well, Repub mouthpiece John Boner, your knowledge of what kind of a governor Jebbie was is, well, NILL! The unfortunate residents of Florida who had to endure 8 long years of his law-breaking secrecy, total lack of leadership ability, his daily raiding of our treasury to reward fatcat corporate donators to the RNC resulting in a bankrupt Florida when he left office, his unethical sweetheart deals he arranged for $900,000 annual board salaries and counting (Tenet Healthcare and Lehman Bros.)in exchange for a deal for downrated junk from Lehman which lost Florida cities and counties million$. Oh, and don't forget his underhanded deal with CSX to gift them with millions, if not billions, of FL taxpayer funds! Even the Repubs in legislature heaved a sigh of relief at his departure. He singlehandedly KILLED the FL real estate market, thanks, Jeb! And NO--neither Jeb nor any other Bush will get within a mile of EVER being elected to office again! Lesson bitterly learned and thanks, corrupt RPOF!

JanL of FL 6:18PM September 10, 2008