Wonkette
Jeb Bush, the slightly less odious brother of former President George W. Bush, delighted the nation when he revealed he wouldn’t be running for Florida’s open Senate seat because huzzah, an election without Bushes! But even if he’s skipping the rounds for 2010, might he have bigger ambitions in mind for 2012?
Here is the thing: no Republican who is actually serious about getting elected president would possibly entertain the idea of running in 2012. Right? It’s just not that easy to knock out an incumbent president, even if that person has just sucked wildly from day 1 (see the 2004 election for more details).
Plus Bush says in this Esquire interview with die-hard Wonkette fan Tucker Carlson that he wasn’t interested in running for president in 2008, anyhow, and “Frankly I don’t wake up each day assuming I’m the solution to life’s problems.”
He also says, regarding socialism:
Define socialism for me. It’s a word… I believe he’s a collectivist. He believes that through collective action, through government, you can solve more problems. [...] Socialism is pejorative in America, so people stop listening. People are tired of it. That word won’t stick. It’s a turnoff. It doesn’t help.
Well, fine. Best quote of the interview comes from the interviewer: “[A]fter two years out of the governor’s mansion, Bush seems a little out of practice at this interview business.” Yeah! You don’t want to sound reasonable in these interview things, for God’s sake.
Jeb Bush: The Future of the Republican Party [Esquire]
Unrelated: I tried to enter Jeb Bush as my name for a high score on one of those bar-top game machines…
It was rejected.
Diebold not doing its job?
Aren’t we done with these fukkers yet?
I will work for any campaign running against Jebbie, but he’s not totally horrible. He used to always stop by my desk at the Legislature to make sure I was doing okay in school since I worked so stinkin’ much. He’s a nice guy.
It’s just a bummer that he’s a Republican and related to G-Dub. Otherwise, I may have voted for the guy simply because he can be downright reasonable.
I’m pretty sure that Marvin Bush, whose company provided security to both the World Trade Center and United Airlines (great job!), is the smartest brother, and Robin Bush is the smartest sibling overall.
It’s freakin’ scary - Jeb’s quote about socialism actually makes sense to me. Maybe he’s using some kind of Cheney mind trick on us.
hey, someone call me when we get to Mark Sanford
Sure, Jeb believes collectivism is bad… except when it comes to collecting my NYC-generated tax dollars to pay for hurricane relief for Floridians, people who live in a state that’s about three feet above MSL. Then it’s “Pay Me, FEMA!” time.
Go suck a peninsula, Jeb.
Frankly, no one these days wakes up thinking anyone named Bush is the solution to any problem. Unless the problem is W not being on trial in the Hague, and the solution is renditioning him there extraordinarily.
Brendan M.: Ranking degrees of smartness in this bunch is like deciding which turd stinks the least. Mustn’t forget Neil “breached his fiduciary duties involving multiple conflicts of interest” Bush. Still the fan favorite for those of us driving past the old Silverado Savings building every day.
My favorite bush isn’t any one of these [rolls eyes, shakes head] -
I never do this, but that picture compels me to type ADULT BUTT-HEAD HAZ A SAD.
Plus, we all know that Neil “Thai Hooker Embezzelement” Bush is the only person clearly qualified for a GOP leadership position.
Regardless, it doesn’t help anyone for Jeb to be sounding rational in the face of his party’s implosion. But he still has much to answer for re: his deliverance of FL to W in 2000, no matter how reasonable he may sound these days. His family has poisoned the politics of US America and would do well to leave us the fuck alone forever.
I last payed attention to this assclown a while ago, but when I did he was of the opinion that it was not necessary to teach about abortion “If we have moral absolutes” and he was resolutely against hate crime status for attacks on gays. His position on these issues may have changed in the intervening years but I doubt it. This guy may be smarter than his dumb as dirt brother but he is no better.
Clancy_Pants: Neil of the “no interest, no payments, loan?” I am still looking for one of those loans. If the sub-primes had those terms then we would not have a default problem. I think Neil is a pretty bright guy, finance wise.
The only reason we got W for 8 years and not Jebbie is that Jebbie has a Mexirican wife. Not getting to be President was his punishment for giving Barbara Bush “brown babies” for grandchildren.
It all makes sense now. The entire eight years of George W. Bush was a cleverly-designed plan to get Jeb Bush into the White House. All he has to do is go in front of a big crowd and do simple math problems, and the GOP will start swooning. “Dubbya was stupid! Jeb is smart! Instawin!”
If he’s even sounding slightly reasonable, he’ll never get through the Republican primaries.
If he becomes president, then the right hast to finally stop citing Horatio Alger as their main source on class mobility.
Also, third Bush the charm, also?
I’m pretty sure bush is the solution to at least one of my problems, but probably not Jeb.
Isn’t it about time that US America does a Brazilian bikini wax on the Bush family?
SeminoleInDior: Don’t be taken in. He is a Bush, therefore flawed, and can eat a bag of dicks as far as I’m concerned. Also.
AlexisHidell: Well that Jebbie won the race for Gov when Jeb failed the first time out.
If Jeb had won in 1994 then in 2000 he would have had 5 years as gov and run for pres. He lost in 94 but won in 98 so with less than 2 years he had to let Dubya who did win in 1994 make the Pres run.
So I really really hate Florida even more. I think.
Well no its Texas I hate more.
Pirate King of the Jews: Offer Noelle some drugs. It might work.
On the other hand, Caribou Barbie is gonna totally wax this guy in the primary - she doesn’t rent, she OWNS (all the wingtards).
Get outta here Jeb. I’m holding out for this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWidr0Uwj8E
Capitol Hillbilly: Four wheelin’ on the White House Lawn!!! Woo hoo!!!!
To say he’s the smartest of the Bush boys is akin to being, to paraphrase the late, great Mike Royko, the tallest midget in the circus.
Shakin’ the bushes, boss.
AlexisHidell: EXACTLY! The white trash base won’t vote for a man with a Latina wife…also the son, George P Bush, is just way too gay and the daughter loves coke.
No thanks. No more Bush is my solution. Don’t trust any of ‘em assclowns. If nothing else: guilt by association. Get offa my lawn, pool boy!
This country will not be satisfied until Jeb Bush has another chance to screw Terry Schiavo’s corpse for political gain. Sarah Palin should probably keep Trig close by whenever he’s around, just in case.
“He believes that through collective action, through government, you can solve more problems.”
Isn’t that the definition of anyone that isn’t an anarchist?
Yeah, is this the same Jeb who wanted to start a shadow government to obstruct all of Obama’a policies? It is? Suck it Jeb.
I was not impressed. He said the same incompetent Republican things, but in a business-like tone. He wants to SOUND reasonable, but how is he reasonable when he, on the one hand, knows that screaming and yelling at hispanics is dumb, but yet says that Limbaugh is an important voice for conservatives. That is quite dissonant. He doesn’t want to call Obama a socialist, but then he was an obvious hack about Obama’s “secret.” Please. It’s his base that is out of touch. That will remain a problem for the Repubs, even the so-called smart ones.
GDuvall: Shut up, commie!
Is it possible to sue the vagina of Barbara Bush? There needs to be some accountability, godammit.
I read the interview. And Jebbo is supposed to be the smart one? If so, this puts “smart” into the pantheon of empty phrases and terms, such as “new and improved”, “activist judge”, “virtually painless” and “compassionate conservative”. “I’ll call you in the morning”, also.
snideinplainsight:
I’d rather look at her bush that any other Bush!
There ought to be a constitutional ammendment - NO MORE BUSHES!
We were warned, explicitly, “STAY OUT DA BUSHES.”
TGY: Ha! What we have here is a failure to communicate…
Buzz Feedback: would it be possible to form a society that would safeguard the American presidency from Bushes and their descendants?
it would be called “No Bushes” (in Latin), have a singular purpose and recruit future generations to the cause into perpetuity…kind of like the ex-Templar brothers in “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” that protected the Holy Grail from decidedly unworthy seekers.
I can see his campaign slogan now “Jeb Bush- Not as Incompetent as His Brother”
But seriously, if I have to live in a world in which I see a photo of George HW wearing one of his stupid “41″ hats, W. with his stupid “43″ hat and Jeb wearing a hat saying “45″ while playing golf I will seriously quit this country.
June Cleaver 2.0: “I’m not saying abandon our principles. To the contrary: Find creative ways of expressing the principles.”
Instead of “War in Iraq” say “bringing democracy to the Middle East”; instead of “Hurricane Katina” say “event of increased precipitation”.
Jeb, with that line of thinking, the entire “collectivist” armed forces of these here Yewknighted Estates should GO GALT!
Everyone go buy a collectivist-manufactured hamburger, with a debased (”clipped”) gold eagle Amero, CELEBRATE THE RELOVEUCCIONE!
Well, at least he recognizes the idiocy of yelling “socialism” about every government policy, ever, even he’s still a little off as to what “collectivism” is. It makes you wonder if his statement about Limbaugh is just a sop to him, more an acknowledgment of Limbaugh’s status as potential kingmaker than an endorsement of his perspectives. Still, I think the Bush dynasty may be tapped out - one unspectacular president and one spectacularly awful one will ruin the good name of your family, no matter how many beltway connections you have.
George W. sounded reasonable before he got the presidency. As an aside John Ellis “Jeb” Bush was the inspiration for Goeorge Oscar “GOB” Bluth II.
SeminoleInDior: Unless you happen to be a blastocyst or a braindead woman, then you’ll have to get a restraining order to keep the fucker off of you.
Bypartizoa: It’s precisely because he sounds slightly reasonable that he won’t make it through the Republican primaries.
I prefer Bushes around the white house, not inside of it. Has Brother Jebadiah Bush been annointed by god like brother George? He is no doubt better than the Alaskan grifter and “magic underwear” Romney. Hopefully, he has a few skeletons in the closet that havn’t “come out” yet.
Where’s his birth certificate? Are you sure he’s a Bush? ‘Cause he’s making waaaaay too much sense.
Mad Brahms: I’d like to think that you’re right, but the “Animal Farm” inhabitants of conservaworld seem to see rightwing abject miserable failure - aka Snowbilly Grifta from Wasilla - as a total WIN!!! So not so sure that the Gee Oh Pee is “done” w/Casa de Bush, sad to say.
“I’m reading a wild book. It’s The Singularity Is Near.The book is about how technology is going to overtake the human mind.”
Jeb Bush/Cory Doctorow 2012!
If he really is the “Smart One” he will hold of until 2016 and after Snowbilly’s Goldwater sized fail in 2012.
NebraskashireGentry: Non Frutex (or plural Fruticis).
If the conjugation/voice is wrong, I promise to write any corrections on a large marble ediface in D.C. of the Latin linguist’s chosing…in red paint.
Also, another Voyager-like probe needs to be sent (with universal symbolic notation, on a solid gold record of MJ’s Off The Wall) warning about the presence of genetic effluvia of the Bush clan in this spiral arm of the Milky Way…just to make sure.
Jeb Bush has told The Washington Globe that he plans to run for President in 2012, with George Allen as his running mate. He said that if he is elected, he will nominate Sarah Palin as Secretary of Energy, Marion Barry as Secretary of Health and Human Services, John Ensign as Secretary of Commerce, Mark Sanford as Secretary of Agriculture, and Larry Craig as the Director of National Intelligence.
I look forward to the day when the word “bush” connotes nothing more for me than pubic hair.
Oldskool: Nope. Can’t sue the dead.
Noticed that Jeb looks a lot like this fellow here:
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/4/4e/Gav.jpg
Oldskool: Suing Barbara Bush’s vagina is a good start but let’s make George H.W. Bush’s nutsack a codefendant.
Work It
Make It
Do It
Makes Us
Harder
Better
Faster
Busher
and still unelectable, Mr. Smarter.
(apologies to Guy-Manuel de H.-C. & Tom B.)
Nice picture of Jeb, though - looks like Kevin Meaney (”Get rid of those tight pants, we’re big pants people!”)
“Frankly I don’t wake up each day assuming I’m the solution to life’s problems.”
So who is he cold burning with this statement? Obama or his brother? Or his father? Or anyone who ever had ambition?
rereridiculous: Wasn’t Horatio Alger a pedophile?
It all makes sense…
It’s just not that easy to knock out an incumbent president, even if that person has just sucked wildly from day 1
The exception that proves the rule would be his father in 1992. My guess is that he sees that example as reason to eventually run. He must get troopers to bring him women and how to force women into giving him blow jobs to have the kind of street cred that helped Clinton take down his dad.
He has totally morphed into Vincent D’Onofrio from Criminal Intent.
When Jeb’s exploratory folks start beating the bushes, it will be the shortest phone poll in recorded history.
“Do you remember George W. Bush’s presidency?”
When 100% of the replies come back negative, time to throw the ol’ hat into the ring.
azw88:
Johnson 1968
Carter 1980
Brainy Bush is toast.
So the repugs are looking for a more reasonable face to divert attention from the clowns and whack jobs and the best they have is another Bush spawn. Amazing how Monty Python material never gets old. I’m in favor of putting the whole Bush clan on a plane with free transport anywhere off the continent provided they never return, like George W did for bin Laden’s family on 9/12. Does Osama have extra room in the cave?
zenferret: I’ll give you Carter, but Johnson didn’t run and technically wasn’t a 1st-termer as he finished Kennedy’s term.
That being said, it is more ammo for his addled brain to think he can actually win.
exactly what part of this made jeb bush sound “reasonable?” was it the part where he opined about obama trying to implement the super secret agenda that he openly campaigned on? or was it the part where he talks about how popular his brother actually was?
Capitol Hillbilly: Is that a name or a directive?
Also, that guy in the picture up there is the best “Jeb” they could find to replace Buddy Ebsen? Really?!
What does Jeb think about the future of the Edsel?
azw88: I’m so old that I remember watching Johnson on black & white teevee announcing his decision not to run. So doesn’t really count. OTOH, yes on Carter, which is really too bad considering that we ended up w/St. Ronnie.
Instead of reading the interview, I used my allotted time perusing the 53 Beautiful Women Tell Funny Jokes piece. I am not sorry.
Jeb is an acronym for “join elite bourgeois.”
But Marvin is simply maahhhhhvulous. Why can’t we have Marvin. Please?
Bush? Another President Bush? I run screaming down the halls in fright YEIIAAAHHHHaahhhhhhh!!
Jeb’s real name: Lester Odious Bushazw88:
It was once said, “The only bush you can trust is your own”
Actually, it was on a flyer during the 2004 election….
Local man perplexed as to whether he wants to be subject the stigma attached to spitting or swallowing. His choice may shock you…tonight at 11!
Wall street
Military industrial complex
Multi-national corporations
Health insurance pharma complex
They DO plan to install Jeb into the Presidency!
DNC & RNC have BOTH sold out the country in order to enrich themselves.
Gravel Kucinich Paul Nader
McKinney Ventura too
perotcharts.com
The Fed
AIPAC
9/11
George the Father, George the Son, Jeb the Holy Ghost.
Clancy_Pants: Went on to peddle influence in exchange for free who*res in Shanghai, too.
I fear that a Bush dynasty is our destiny. Worse, they won’t be anywhere near as cultivated as the Caesars.