Jeb Bush governed Florida like he was a dictator, screwing up public education and classroom teachers with his standardized testing bull shit.

The dangerous thing about him is, unlike his brother Dubya, the guy is extremely smart.

Does he want to be Veep? Or is he looking ahead to 2016?

But he's getting it set up. I think, even in 2016, that he's gonna find that he has a lot of leftover crap feelings from when his bro was in office, but he's trying.

Position himself as a faux "moderate" and hope everyone has forgotten about His Chimpiness by then.

Jebbie will get input from disgraced King GW...

Hey, guys, it's just fact-based reality: BE SUSPICIOUS. ESPECIALLY if it's a republi-CON. They don't change their stripes. This guy is another bush family reptile. Covered with nice-guy clothes. But still a reptile.

I wouldn't trust a bush, particularly ol' jebbie, farther than I can throw my house.

Don't forget - he was a principle signatory of the PNAC, Project for the New American Century. That's the very same one that called for America "to fight and decisively win (HAH! Yeah, SURE, decisively) multiple wars on multiple fronts" in order to protect our position at the top of the economic international ziggurat. It envisioned us enforcing empire at all costs. And it speculated about the exact best way to get the public behind it, against their own best interests: (paraphrasing) "what we need is a new Pearl Harbor" - some sort of national catastrophe that befalls us from external forces, that fires up the kind of blind blood lust for revenge that, funny enough, we actually witnessed within a couple-three years or so of its limited publication - on September 11th 2001. Frankly I think that's what fueled most of the MIHOP (Make It Happen On Purpose) suspicions of the then-new bush2 administration. Especially recalling that he said and did nothing when presented with that alarming Presidential Daily Brief on August 6th, I think it was, 2001, warning that al Qaeda was planning to strike within the US. I believe what he said when a CIA guy tried to warn him - "well, you've covered yer ass now."

jebbie SIGNED OFF ON THAT. He SIGNED IT, along with cheney and paul wolfowitz and bill kristol and a number of platinum-level CONservative operatives and chickenhawks and powers-behind-the-throne, and other various architects and cheerleaders of what became our abysmal adventure in Iraq.

One other thing, btw, just as long as I'm remembering, even if it is off-subject (sorry): I personally was shocked when I read down that list and spotted michael o'hanlon's name on there. He was (and I think still is) high up in the Brookings Institution, which through the early years of the bush2 administration was one of the rare few "liberal" figures allowed on the airwaves to counter the armies of GOP and CON slobberers over the war. They'd invariably throw on michael o'hanlon on camera purportedly to offer the "other side." Which he never really did. Because he was actually one of them. BASTARD. I notice that he's not sticking his head out too far above the foxhole anymore. Wonder if a few too many people found out about his "credibility."

although I did not know Jebbie was a filthy, PNAC bastard!
Nice post!

Signatories to Statement of Principles

Elliott Abrams[5]
Gary Bauer[5]
William J. Bennett[5]
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush[5]
Richard B. Cheney[5]
Eliot A. Cohen[5]
Midge Decter[5]
Paula Dobriansky[5]
Steve Forbes[5]
Aaron Friedberg[5]
Francis Fukuyama[5]
Frank Gaffney[5]
Fred C. Ikle[5]



Donald Kagan[5]
Zalmay Khalilzad[5]
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby[5]
Norman Podhoretz[5]
J. Danforth Quayle[5]
Peter W. Rodman[5]
Stephen P. Rosen[5]
Henry S. Rowen[5]
Donald Rumsfeld[5]
Vin Weber[5]
George Weigel[5]
Paul Wolfowitz[5]


Up at the very top:
Project directors

[as listed on the PNAC website:]

William Kristol, Co-founder and Chairman[1]
Robert Kagan, Co-founder[1]
Bruce P. Jackson[1]



Mark Gerson[1]
Randy Scheunemann[1]

randy scheunemann - keep an eye on him. EVIL. He was brought in as john mccain's foreign policy/national security advisor, and he's the one who tried, in vain, to coach sarah palin for her debate with Joe Biden. He even admitted he went away from there just shaking his head. And bill kristol, the publisher of the "Weekly Standard," needs to be watched as well. It's important to see where these people go, who they line up with, who they're brought in to advise - like how many of these ruthless assholes will be on romney's staff.

rummy and john bolton, michael o'hanlon, dan quayle, and a whole host of other rogues and demons are signatories here:

Signatories or contributors to other significant letters or reports[15]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

But unlike his bro, at least he's not pretending that he wouldn't make a sharp right turn once in office.


rocktivity

In the end, the Teabaggers, which is to say all Republicans now, will settle for nothing less than a VP candidate who channels Mussolini and takes orders from Norquist.

Sticky note for Mitt: Don't forget to mail etch-a-sketch to Jeb Bush after 2012 campaign!

What if Karl Rove finds something on him that cannot be swept under the carpet, esp if the Bush Family doesnt want it to be?

If by some Rovian "miracle", Jeb becomes the candidate with only months to go, he will have avoided all those horrible debates. Those debates that were totally stupid to put your real candidate thru.

Now some will say that it is too late for Jeb to launch a campaign. I disagree. Those idiots that were planning on voting for Romney will not decide to change to Obama vs. Bush. Those same idiots wont care about the Bush legacy. I think WI was the test. Whatever they did to win can certainly be used to push Bush thru.

Just sayin

pulling people over with a flashing red light on his car.

But we could never get that lucky, could we? 8^D

if Pres Obama is vulnerable. I believe that Rove has something up his sleeve that would take Rmoney down if this is the time for Jeb to make his move. Recent jabs at Rmoney by Jeb in the press are curious. Is he just getting started for 2016 or is there still a chance for 2012.

With Citizen's United behind him, I believe Rove can bring almost anyone down. Even maybe Pres Obama. Remember, it doesnt have to be true, only believable and the MSM is a willing accomplice.

ps: on edit, my track record on this is below zero.

Not the word I would have chosen. "Backward", "Medieval", and "Crushingly Stupid" are more accurate.

When Jeb would be a "moderate" rethug. Just goes to show how extreme the party has become.

I don't think Babs was ever capable of squeezing out a non-psychopath. He's angling for something.

If anything, the Bushes have given me a greater understanding and liking for my own totally fucked-up family. They're a whole other level of dysfunction.

based upon some of the analyses of political division in the USA, Bush may see an opportunity to drive straight up the middle as an alternative 3rd party, more centrist candidate than each of the mainstream candidates appear to be (from the opposing sides POV).

Bushwah! We Democrats already HAVE a centrist presidential candidate! Barack Obama is a centrist with an economic policy well to the right of the policies of FDR's New Deal and Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. President Obama's economic policies bear a strong resemblance to the effectively-centrist economic policies of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

The right-wing Republican Party and its Tea Party fringe have turned the GOP into a right-wing party with an extremist agenda. They no longer HAVE anything resembling a political center, except among clueless long-time voters that haven't noticed their party's shift to the right or other clueless voters who hope (in vain) that the GOP is "going to swing back to the center" (About as unlikely as flying pigs, conga-lines of dancing armadillos, and the tooth fairy leaving the poorest children of America $20 gold pieces under their pillow every time they lose baby teeth). We Democrats are not only the liberals, but we ARE the center. The Elephant Party and its affiliates AREN'T.

when he was running for leadership. He said he was against "nation building". He also sounded quite moderate.

During the 2000 campaign, George W. Bush argued against nation building and foreign military entanglements. In the second presidential debate, he said: "I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say, 'This is the way it's got to be.'"

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-646142.html

This is a total setup. He is going to be presented as a moderate who will be a "compassionate conservative". Hmmm where have I heard that before?

Bush Jr. and his brother now sound moderate and reasonable in comparison to today's Republican Party. Where will this all end? What is disconcerting is that no matter how far to the right, how unreasonable and how extreme the Republican Party moves - they still remain a very strong and viable political entity that now holds the House of Representatives and could very well win control of the Senate and is within striking distance of once again completely controlling all three branches of government - all with minimal critique from the media.

Their base is dying off, NRA membership is dropping every year,
I took my two boys to a gun range and they were not impressed, they have more fun playing Halo, then shooting at targets, plus it is more expensive than Halo. bullets cost $1 each.
The wedge issues do not work on young people, that's why they are trying to suppress the student vote.
Immigrants are the growing majority, they will certainly not vote for "self-deport, fence building, no Dream Act, Romney.

So Jeb and Rove are trying to appeal to young and immigrants, but they have no substance and their scare tactics, "gay, cuts to pell grants, no to birth control, pro life, gun rights, is not going to work on immigrants and the young.

They are going to vote for their self-interests just like the 1% do.