http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2694895Oh my.
Ms. Ed, the unappellated eohippus:
Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:31 AM
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I just threw up in my mouth for a minute.
It was suggested on a round table that Jeb Bush might be sitting back looking at this field of republicans and decide to run!!
Great line by Matthews--paraphrased--"yeah who wouldn't love another Clinton-Bush matchup"...
Ugghh...me for one (raising hand).
Blackhatjack (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:32 AM
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1. Don't think for a moment that Jeb is not considering it given the state of affairs ....
AX10 (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:33 AM
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2. Any Bush would be crushed.
The family is hated.
Now, franksolich rather likes the Bush family, all of them.
OzarkDem (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:34 AM
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7. Not if you can steal the votes
remember, Jeb has lots of experience.
donheld (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:47 AM
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20. So you think the Bushies play fair
You think they actually won the last 2 elections?
Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:39 AM
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12. I wonder if this just isn't a huge scam
Seriously...I am a tinfoily kind of person anyway...proudly.
Throw in every radical candidate that you can...
Guiliani--authoritarian/totalitarian
Huckabee--Theocrat
McCain--war monger
etc etc
And just when the republicans are feeling that they are going to have to either stay home and not vote or vote for a Democrat...along comes someone who doesn't seem as radical as the aforementioned to sweep the nomination...making the republicans glad they don't have to vote for "those guys".
There isn't much in the republican party that isn't 100% vetted by think tanks...yet their field of candidates is so weak. Why?
Rex (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:33 AM
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3. No thanks, Jeb can jump off a cliff and do the world a favor.
And take that criminal family with you! I hear the Grand Canyon has a wonderful view.
Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:33 AM
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4. Turn off the cable idiot box!! Turn off & boycott MSNBC!
And... don't swallow.
casus belli (327 posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:34 AM
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5. Please God, let him run.
The way Bush has fractured his own party, running another Bush would ensure the political death of their party for at least a decade.
Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:35 AM
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8. and then there is that voting machine problem....
NanceGreggs (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:38 AM
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11. My sentiments exactly ...
Normally I would say that the Pubs are too smart to even think about running Jeb - but given the candidates they already have running, intelligence seems to be in short supply on their side of the aisle.
midnight (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:34 AM
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6. The dem's would just have to mention that he has economically destroyed Florida, and the challenge is over.
Bonobo (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:35 AM
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9. Did you swallow it, or spit it out?
dorkulon (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:36 AM
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10. Even Repugs don't want another Bush.
Blackhatjack (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:39 AM
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13. But...but...but ... Papa Bush says Jeb would make a fine President...
The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:39 AM
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14. Jeb is actually the intelligent son in that family. If we had to have a bush Jeb would have been 1000x better than jr.
Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:41 AM
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16. but with the same end result not just as much mess?
The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:44 AM
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19. I don't know, I don't think anybody else would have messed things up this this badly, nobody in the world. Since there was no way out of getting a bush in 2000, Jeb would have been better I think.
Hekate (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 02:46 AM
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26. Jeb signed PNAC, didn't he? Anyhow, he could've screwed us over more efficiently than W....
Since he's more intelligent I believe Jeb would have been less, shall we say, clumsy about screwing the country over and hollowing out the civil service. Very similar evil results.
cynatnite (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:40 AM
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15. ICK! I am so grossed out! And not about the vomit in the mouth...
ToeBot (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:42 AM
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17. Oh, he's out there, like latent stage syphilis, biding his time, waiting, waiting....
ursi (423 posts) Wed Jan-16-08 12:51 AM
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21. oh, reading this ...made me throw up in my mouth for a few seconds!
lurky (322 posts) Wed Jan-16-08 01:05 AM
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22. Wasn't Fred Thompson their savior just a few months ago?
They're waiting for a knight in shining armor to ride up and save them, but all they have are toads.
antfarm (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-16-08 02:09 AM
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24. That expression seems to be catching on and I really really hate it.
SmellsLikeDeanSpirit (288 posts) Wed Jan-16-08 02:30 AM
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25. I hear George H.W. Bush is ready to run again.
*crickets*
I dunno; I never thought about it.
But since the primitives don't like the idea, it sounds like a damned fine idea.
Is it too late to start a DRAFT JEB boom?