So. What do you all think Jeb Bush is up to? A few months back he said that the Republican party is committing political suicide by alienating Latinos. Since then, he has spoken publicly about the misjudgments of the Republican party. Today, he says there would be no room for his father or Ronald Reagan in the modern Republican party. He has since clarified the latter remark to blame Democrats for gridlock, but this has clearly been a consistent theme of his over the past few months. He's quickly becoming quite an intriguing figure in his own right.
So. What do you all think Jeb Bush is up to? A few months back he said that the Republican party is committing political suicide by alienating Latinos. Since then, he has spoken publicly about the misjudgments of the Republican party. Today, he says there would be no room for his father or Ronald Reagan in the modern Republican party. He has since clarified the latter remark to blame Democrats for gridlock, but this has clearly been a consistent theme of his over the past few months. He's quickly becoming quite an intriguing figure in his own right.
I think his comment about Democrats being to blame for gridlock was a walk-back of his previous condemnation aimed at Republicans.
He says he has no interest in the #2 position on the Republican ticket, but I wonder. He also says he thinks this could have been his year to run for President. I agree with him on that. I think the Right would much rather have Jeb Bush as their nominee than Romney or any of the other candidates that ran in the primary. Plus, unlike what I was saying this time last year, if the job numbers don't pick up, I think the President could be facing a much harder row to hoe this election. I think Jeb Bush would've been a much more difficult opponent than Romney, and I think Romney is going to be tough.
Having said all that, he is a Bush. And who knows if this country would be ready to elect another one of those this soon after the debacle that was the previous 8 years?
I think his comment about Democrats being to blame for gridlock was a walk-back of his previous condemnation aimed at Republicans.
He says he has no interest in the #2 position on the Republican ticket, but I wonder. He also says he thinks this could have been his year to run for President. I agree with him on that. I think the Right would much rather have Jeb Bush as their nominee than Romney or any of the other candidates that ran in the primary. Plus, unlike what I was saying this time last year, if the job numbers don't pick up, I think the President could be facing a much harder row to hoe this election. I think Jeb Bush would've been a much more difficult opponent than Romney, and I think Romney is going to be tough.
Having said all that, he is a Bush. And who knows if this country would be ready to elect another one of those this soon after the debacle that was the previous 8 years?
Americans have a very short-term memory. Except when it comes to the widespread adoration for Ronald Reagan on the right.
That said, it probably is too soon for a Bush to land on another ticket. If the President is re-elected, perhaps 2016 for Jeb?
It's funny. I have joked many times about Jeb getting to the White House and how we'll invade Iraq again. But I have to admit, as Republicans go, Jeb is one that I admire to some degree. I don't agree with his politics, but I really do believe that he is a thoughtful and kind man with substantially more smarts than his brother. I always has a positive impression of him in the aftermath of various Florida hurricanes. There is simply a nice "way" about him. As Republicans go.
None of which has any bearing whatsoever on whether he would be an honest candidate who shows integrity in the silly season election cycle.
Jonathan Krohn took the political world by storm at 2009’s Conservative Political Action Conference when, at just 13 years old, he delivered an impromptu rallying cry for conservatism that became a viral hit and had some pegging him as a future star of the Republican Party.
Now 17, Krohn — who went on to write a book, “Defining Conservatism,” that was blurbed by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Bill Bennett — still watches that speech from time to time, but it mostly makes him cringe because, well, he’s not a conservative anymore.
Jonathan Krohn took the political world by storm at 2009’s Conservative Political Action Conference when, at just 13 years old, he delivered an impromptu rallying cry for conservatism that became a viral hit and had some pegging him as a future star of the Republican Party.
Now 17, Krohn — who went on to write a book, “Defining Conservatism,” that was blurbed by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Bill Bennett — still watches that speech from time to time, but it mostly makes him cringe because, well, he’s not a conservative anymore.
“I think it was naive,” Krohn now says of the speech. “It’s a 13-year-old kid saying stuff that he had heard for a long time.… I live in Georgia. We’re inundated with conservative talk in Georgia.… The speech was something that a 13-year-old does. You haven’t formed all your opinions. You’re really defeating yourself if you think you have all of your ideas in your head when you were 12 or 13. It’s impossible. You haven’t done enough."
This is pretty much why I've checked out of the Presidential political scene this election. To me, from now until November, very very very few peoples minds will be changed barring some outrageous revelation. Nothing AT ALL has run through the news cycle in last 2 months politically that has mattered. The Healthcare law being upheld has only hardened peoples stands on their choice for President, I doubt anyone changed their mind over this.
One can only hope Vlad that Mitt develops some chronic and painful disease and that he needs marijuana and doesn't get it.
Unfortunately, with his money, he can get whatever he wants.
I would not wish for anyone to develop a chronic disease but what he showed is that he really has no regard for human life. And this is a guy who wants to be the face of this country? He may have political basis against medical marijuana, but the way he reacted with turning away and then a smile on his political and dumb face is disgraceful.
"Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd." Baruch Spinoza
Yuck. There's a legitimate, compassionate way to answer that guy's question and still maintain that you oppose medical marijuana. It would require human empathy and stuff, so it doesn't shock me that it didn't spring instantly to mind. Sometimes I think people go overboard when they characterize Mitt Romney as out of touch and unfeeling, but then I see that interaction and I remember that he can be kinda out of touch and unfeeling.
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Jonathan Krohn took the political world by storm at 2009’s Conservative Political Action Conference when, at just 13 years old, he delivered an impromptu rallying cry for conservatism that became a viral hit and had some pegging him as a future star of the Republican Party.
Now 17, Krohn — who went on to write a book, “Defining Conservatism,” that was blurbed by the likes of Newt Gingrich and Bill Bennett — still watches that speech from time to time, but it mostly makes him cringe because, well, he’s not a conservative anymore.
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