Tag: Jeb Bush
Barbara Bush Feels like the Rest of Us: ‘We’ve Had Enough Bushes’
He’s by far the best qualified man, but no. I really don’t. I think it’s a great country. There are a lot of great families, and it’s not just four families or whatever. There are other people out there that are very qualified and we’ve had enough Bushes.
— Former First Lady Barbara Bush, telling CNN she does not want her son Jeb to run for president in 2016.
George W. Bush ‘Disciplined,’ Not Just Dumb?
He is like the most focused, disciplined guy. To imagine being a former president and not having an opinion on anything over the last four years, really? I mean, to have that discipline, to be respectful of the president that hasn’t been as respectful of him as he should have been? Man. I could have never done that.
— Jeb Bush, in a CNN interview, on his brother, former President George W. Bush.
Jeb Bush Notes that GOP is the Party of Anti-
All too often we’re associated with being anti-everything: anti-immigration, anti-women, anti-gay.
— Jeb Bush, quoted by USA Today, in an address to the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Jeb Bush Does Not Know Secret GOP Handshake
I don’t know what the Republican establishment is. I haven’t learned the secret handshake, and I don’t know where to go for a membership card.
— Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), quoted by Time.
Jeb Bush: Who Republicans Evoke When They Can’t Beat Democrats
With the people in the field right now, I think it will be difficult to beat Bill Nelson. I still think Jeb Bush might don the cape and get in.
Florida State Senate Pres. Mike Haridopolos (R-Merritt Island), discussing the U.S. Senate race for the seat currently held by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.). Haridopolos dropped out of the contest this year, leaving challengers that Vice Pres. Joe Biden referred to at the recent Florida Democratic Convention as, “the seven dwarfs.”
Not Bushwacked Again!
We would have been fine with just one.
We had two, we should be done.
But mis-leading the nation
Has become a Bush family tradition,
And now both Georges want the Jebster to run!
Jeb! Sends Lawyers After Deb! for Using Exclamation Point
If anyone thought there were issues too petty for a former governor to unleash his lawyers over, Jeb Bush’s most recent actions should put such ideas to rest.
Even Florida’s most jaded political observers — including the Republican ones — are shaking their heads now.
Not only does Bush want Florida Senate District 8 candidate Deborah Gianoulis (D) to stop using her nickname in campaign materials, she is not to use the exclamation point, the colors red and white, or the letters “e” and “b.”
