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EarlG

(21,894 posts)
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 01:04 PM Dec 2014

Pic Of The Moment: Jeb Bush Exploring Run For President



And So It Begins... 'Jeb Bush Announces He'll 'Actively Explore' 2016 Run' - NBCNews

Bush: Fool Me Once...



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Pic Of The Moment: Jeb Bush Exploring Run For President (Original Post) EarlG Dec 2014 OP
bring on the clowns olddots Dec 2014 #1
tweedledumb and tweedledumber niyad Dec 2014 #2
Looking at that pic Doc Holliday Dec 2014 #24
Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2014 #3
W. Bush years' are still fresh in my mind... TRoN33 Dec 2014 #4
!!! 2naSalit Dec 2014 #10
Why hold back? Why mince words? JDDavis Dec 2014 #12
Truer screwed up words were never spoken! Dustlawyer Dec 2014 #5
No more BUSH! blackspade Dec 2014 #6
Jeb has always struck me as being a lot smarter than his older brother* YoungDemCA Dec 2014 #7
The proverbial... 3catwoman3 Dec 2014 #15
And even more unsympathetic War Horse Dec 2014 #20
Republican=Bully TBF Dec 2014 #21
We can't take another 4 years of the BFEE. We simply can't. Initech Dec 2014 #8
Damned straight! 2naSalit Dec 2014 #9
Looks like Jeb inherited his mother's big head. dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #11
I wonder if Saint "Big Headed" Reagan was really Jeb's daddy? Hubert Flottz Dec 2014 #19
How are heads of the other 2, Marvin & Neil who are not in the news much? Normal, huge? Bizarre. appalachiablue Dec 2014 #25
I would google to see dixiegrrrrl Dec 2014 #27
It really would be comical, what the Republicans scrape up to run JDDavis Dec 2014 #13
Stay out da bushes hibbing Dec 2014 #14
I love the intro: C Moon Dec 2014 #16
Why don't the Republicans go all in and make Presidential Candidate an inherited title? tclambert Dec 2014 #17
The man is a proven election thief. Hubert Flottz Dec 2014 #18
Too funny. Doc Holliday Dec 2014 #23
We are still dealing with Bush Hell! We don't need another shitbag Bush! santamargarita Dec 2014 #22
If he is nominated ... Oldtimeralso Dec 2014 #26
Exploring you say? rock Dec 2014 #28
We need to get old man poppy in that picture for a threesome aint_no_life_nowhere Dec 2014 #29
That picture kind of makes you wonder which one is more drunk at that moment JDDavis Dec 2014 #30
That pic is classic. W even looks sober. TheCowsCameHome Dec 2014 #31
2016 better not be anything like the sit-on-our-thumbs 2014 mid-terms ffr Dec 2014 #32
Here's the REALLY frightening thing about Jeb Jim Lane Dec 2014 #33
Torture fool twins. lonestarnot Dec 2014 #34
poster for Dumb and Dumber? NRaleighLiberal Dec 2014 #35
Jeb would be number three! nt valerief Dec 2014 #36
Oh yes we can get fooled and they will try it polynomial Dec 2014 #37
The Picture... HoosierCowboy Dec 2014 #38
Dear God, no. No more Bushes. No more Clintons. AllyCat Dec 2014 #39
No! Never...Ever...Again! SoapBox Dec 2014 #40
I saw this brought Michael Schiavo back out into the public eye Quixote1818 Dec 2014 #41
gosh no! not another bush in the white house tosoris Dec 2014 #42

Doc Holliday

(719 posts)
24. Looking at that pic
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 04:04 PM
Dec 2014

makes me remember that, according to Bill Maher, Jeb's supposed to be "the smart one."

"Be afraid...be very afraid." - Wednesday Addams

Response to EarlG (Original post)

 

TRoN33

(769 posts)
4. W. Bush years' are still fresh in my mind...
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 01:19 PM
Dec 2014

Potentially another Bush in the White House? FUCKING HELL NO. PERIOD.

JEB YOU COCKSUCKER ABOMINATION OF YOUR FATHER'S LOIN, JUST FUCKING GO AWAY QUIETLY.

 

YoungDemCA

(5,714 posts)
7. Jeb has always struck me as being a lot smarter than his older brother*
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 01:28 PM
Dec 2014

which makes him potentially more dangerous.

*Of course, it's not hard to be smarter than George "Gentleman's C Student" Bush.

War Horse

(931 posts)
20. And even more unsympathetic
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 03:04 PM
Dec 2014

George has always struck me as a little cowed by Jeb. And Jeb as somewhat of a bully towards George.

TBF

(31,921 posts)
21. Republican=Bully
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 03:35 PM
Dec 2014

I think they are synonyms in most dictionaries.

They call Jeb "the smart one" - although it's likely just a matter of degree.

Hubert Flottz

(37,726 posts)
19. I wonder if Saint "Big Headed" Reagan was really Jeb's daddy?
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 03:02 PM
Dec 2014

WE know his mom's picture is on the front of the one dollar bill.

 

JDDavis

(725 posts)
13. It really would be comical, what the Republicans scrape up to run
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 01:58 PM
Dec 2014

If it weren't for so many gerrymandered districts allowing both the House and Senate to be in the Republican majority, it would be comical, the clowns and fools and dangerous Randian libertarians and misogynist fools they run for office, especially the White House.

Most of us with a brain thought Sarah Palin for VP was a joke, (that McCain already knew he was going to lose, so why not pick a cute caribou Barbie to make the Alaskans happy?) but now these Repulicans actually are scraping the bottom of the barrel, thinking Romney again or and other Bush is a rational choice, (indeed the Republican's "MOST rational" choice?)

C Moon

(12,188 posts)
16. I love the intro:
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 02:44 PM
Dec 2014

""There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee..."

tclambert

(11,080 posts)
17. Why don't the Republicans go all in and make Presidential Candidate an inherited title?
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 02:47 PM
Dec 2014

Though I'm sure George W. Bush thinks he earned everything on his own merits.

Hubert Flottz

(37,726 posts)
18. The man is a proven election thief.
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 02:55 PM
Dec 2014

Can't even manage his own daughter, so what are the odds that he could run an entire country.

Doc Holliday

(719 posts)
23. Too funny.
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 04:00 PM
Dec 2014

It reminds me of a racist joke I heard at work, right after Obama was first elected...something to the effect of, "If ten of them can't run a McDonald's, how can one of them run this country?"

Not being snarky about your comment (with which I agree), just having one of those flashbacks we oldsters get from time to time...if we're lucky. Although it is possible that the whole candidate's-brother-being-the-governor-of-the-state-that-decided-the-election thing was just a coincidence. (Hey, a one-in-a-million shot is technically a possibility...according to Lloyd Christmas, anyway.)

I guess seeing that pic made me think of Dumb and Dumber.

Oldtimeralso

(1,935 posts)
26. If he is nominated ...
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 05:10 PM
Dec 2014

maybe the press can find out what happened to the aviation school (Embry-Riddle, I think) in Florida that he took the records from on September 12, 2001.

rock

(13,218 posts)
28. Exploring you say?
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 06:32 PM
Dec 2014

Like w* exploring the Oval Office for WMDs? I suspect what's found will be the same in both cases.

 

JDDavis

(725 posts)
30. That picture kind of makes you wonder which one is more drunk at that moment
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 07:11 PM
Dec 2014

Really, I was thinking of starting a thread about how this guy, (who just happens to be George W's brother), never really exhibited a want to become president before last week.

He has no internal motivation!!!!!!! Sort of like that other Republican they pulled out of the closet, last time around.. the actor guy, never got far because his lack of motivation was obvious. What was his name? He was on Law and Order, as an actor playing the part of a D.A. Can't even remember his name now.

Edited to add my brain finally kicked-in and went to work

Fred Thompson

Just another Republican in name only, who is really just after the publicity, not really willing to work like a "slave" like we expect Obama to do. (Yeah, us white middle class liberals who post here expect Obama to act like he owns the Congress, when a hundred gerrymandered districts and a poor campaign strategy from the Dems led to no one winning a seat away from a Republican district in Congress).

Politics is an ugly business, let's face it, and most of the Republican wannabe's are just nuts, and now Jeb Bush wants to run for prez? When he never had that fire for the last 8 years in his belly like Obama did?

Jeb Bush, running because his mother and father have that surname. George W., ran for office and lost the popular vote in 2000, but he had a Supreme Court to anoint him.

Obviously, we have to contend with these fools, who never wanted the job but were glad to run. I wonder how many days a Jeb Bush President would spend drinking on some boat off the shores of Miami if he won.





ffr

(22,647 posts)
32. 2016 better not be anything like the sit-on-our-thumbs 2014 mid-terms
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 07:44 PM
Dec 2014

Or you're looking at the next president.

 

Jim Lane

(11,175 posts)
33. Here's the REALLY frightening thing about Jeb
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 08:50 PM
Dec 2014

Out of all the Republicans who've been seriously mentioned as possible 2016 nominees, there's a good argument that he's the one who'd make the best President.

Now, before you jump all over me for saying something even remotely positive about Jeb, answer a question -- from the universe of prospects that I specified ("Republicans who've been seriously mentioned as possible 2016 nominees&quot , which one do you think would make a better President than Jeb?

He might also be the one who has the best chance of winning the general election. I know he has a toxic last name. I still think he'd be a stronger candidate than Cruz or Paul or Rubio or Perry.

polynomial

(750 posts)
37. Oh yes we can get fooled and they will try it
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 09:44 AM
Dec 2014

This is Project Grand Slam going for gold. They know America is loaded with the majority that will watch commercials and vote against their intensions. That is spooky action at a distance.

Perhaps we are witness to one of Einstein's predictions in Quantum Mechanics. Einstein mentioned something like there is action at a distance, he called it spooky action.

However,

"Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Richard P. Feynman" One of the best physicist in our time.


If Jeb really does make a run for president, the Media, Cable, Hate Radio talk and especially the commercial time is exposing the real wide open in your face cash cow political machinery. All known and operated by both parties.

The open air, or free air mainstream Media Journalist are the front line of the political cash cow profiteering machine. The cable and satellite are there too.

The everyday Journalist sound off to the ninety nine percent area. These everyday propaganda machines are the links to the ninety nine percent of America that have been intentionally schooled for no brain commercial advertising.

Gerrymandering, corporate franchising, Central Banking and Reverse Mortgage are key political tools too in what is an action at a distance oligarchy society that will be firmly establish.

So far it pays off to sack the treasury wage wars all the while committing war crimes, and torture. So far we have not felt the real misery of what is to come. This Political governance uses terror and fear has paid off extremely well for the profiteers.

Or as Rush Limbaugh says frequently “Screwled” in education. Most of these electorate will vote against their interest with the right persuasion with follow up commercials. This has been going on for the past decades.

The political figures will float trial balloon with Jeb as an experiment because if you could buy insurance from a lizard or a pig the media could convince you Jeb Bush is the second coming of Christ.

These lieutenants of the political cash cow machine, the political profiteers are polished and paid very, very well. They are the modern mercenaries of the new system that Bush and Company has used since the civil war they are Carpet Baggers in the new millennium.

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
40. No! Never...Ever...Again!
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 01:11 PM
Dec 2014

Terrifying.

All the crazy Bagger's that will run...and Jethro will look calm and sane.

The voters option...Clinton.

We're doomed.

Quixote1818

(28,903 posts)
41. I saw this brought Michael Schiavo back out into the public eye
Fri Dec 19, 2014, 09:01 PM
Dec 2014

since this scum bag tried to make it look like he killed his wife for political gain.

tosoris

(23 posts)
42. gosh no! not another bush in the white house
Sat Dec 20, 2014, 08:36 AM
Dec 2014

it will be a disaster either way. far worse than bush senior and george dubya put together.



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