JEB Presidential Announcement Shaped by Family History

[libertybele]

The Bush family name is not an asset.  Many of us aren't going to forget "read my lips; no new taxes", and the Iraq and Afghanistan war are still front and center. Jeb may claim to be his own man but certainly his amnesty stance on illegal immigration and his unpopular "Common Core" push won't win him any votes either.  I have stated before, if this RINO gets the nomination, the GOP will lose.  Right now I see this as a contest between the voice of "We the People" vs. the money of the Bush dynasty.

Jeb Bush presidential announcement shaped by family history

MIAMI — Try as he might to emphasize that he is his own man and not his father or his older brother, who both served as president, Jeb Bush cannot shake the echoes of the past as he prepares to launch his own run for the White House here today.

In October of 1987, 10 days after wrapping up a trip to Europe where he defied the Soviet Union, then-63-year-old Vice President George H.W. Bush took to a stage in Houston, Texas, his adopted home, and launched a presidential campaign that was well-organized and well-funded.

On Monday, Jeb Bush, the 62-year-old former governor of Florida, having just returned from a trip to Europe where he talked tough against Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, will take the stage in Miami, his adopted home, and officially announce his own presidential campaign — one that is well-funded, like his father’s, but has not been quite as organized to date.

The elder Bush, as he announced a second run for the White House in 1987 (he had run before in 1980 and lost to Ronald Reagan), was struggling to emerge from the shadow of one of the most popular Republican presidents in history.

“This is the beginning of George Bush as George Bush,” Bush’s political director, Richard Bond, told the New York Times.

Jeb Bush’s greatest challenge is that he is seen by most Americans as the brother of George W. Bush and the son of George H.W. Bush, despite a long career in politics and business.

“I am my own man,” Jeb said earlier this year...

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/jeb-bush-launches-2016-campaign-live-miami-try-121517553101.html

[Mr Mannn]

Nice that he has the money to run, but he is doomed to fail.

[libertybele]

Nice that he has the money to run, but he is doomed to fail.

I certainly hope your are correct, but the GOPe and the MSM want a Clinton/Bush runoff. Money, GOPe and MSM are some pretty heavy hitters to have in your corner.

[JohnnyReb]

I certainly hope your are correct, but the GOPe and the MSM want a Clinton/Bush runoff. Money, GOPe and MSM are some pretty heavy hitters to have in your corner.

Where is an articulate darky when you need one?


I know it's racist but it worked for the democrats.

[J P Sousa]

Where is an articulate darky when you need one?


I know it's racist but it worked for the democrats.

Dr Carson ? 

[J P Sousa]

Jeb is following in "W's" footsteps. Before "W" announced for president, he went around to all the "big money" people so others had little chance to compete for the nomination.

[JohnnyReb]

Dr Carson ? 

I'd vote for him before Jeb or Graham.

[Lacarnut]

I certainly hope your are correct, but the GOPe and the MSM want a Clinton/Bush runoff. Money, GOPe and MSM are some pretty heavy hitters to have in your corner.

He will have more money than all of the others in the primaries. He would probably beat the Hildabeast in the general election. So would others with the exception of northeast Yankees and Graham. I do not want  a candidate that is soft on immigration, abortion, drugs, trade agreements that are one sided, increasing spending, decreasing taxes and bringing our boys home from wars we can not win. Know I am asking too much.