After spending months distancing himself from his family’s political legacy, Jeb Bush surprised a group of Manhattan financiers this week by naming his brother, former president George W. Bush, as his most influential counselor on U.S.-Israel policy.
“If you want to know who I listen to for advice, it’s him,” Bush said Tuesday, speaking to a crowd of high-powered investors at the Metropolitan Club, according to four people present.
Embracing George W. Bush as a foreign-policy confidant is a risky and unexpected move for the former Florida governor as he readies for a likely presidential bid. While the former president’s approval ratings have improved since he left office in 2009, his foreign-policy legacy — particularly the long war in Iraq — remains deeply unpopular. He has also become anathema to some conservative activists for presiding over an increase in the federal debt, among other policies.
Having George W. Bush associated with your candidacy as an adviser is akin to having Sarah Palin endorse you for office in Alaska. That is a non-starter.
George W. Bush is the man that the entire country recognizes as having caused almost irreparable harm to the country. Having his last name is bad enough, but actually eliciting advise from him?
Seriously?
Jebbie just handed his opponents all of the ammunition that they will need to undermine his candidacy.
Hillary must be smiling from ear to ear today.
Holy Mother of Dog.
ReplyDeleteHaha, let me guess. He's gonna ask Dick Cheney to find him a VP? And who then proceeds to find himself the most appropriate??
ReplyDeleteBwahahahaha!!
Why not? Cheney could take Bill Clinton out to hunt or something. I tell you, the GOP gets more clueless by the hour...they have no idea what Americans think, nor do they care. The Jeb Bush comment explains why Georgie was out there trashing Obama's foreign policy last week (in a leaked closed door meeting.)
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My memory is a little weak in this, but isn’t that exactly what occurred in 1999? Thanks for reminding me of that. LOL
m baker: your memory is 100% correct!
DeleteNow we got a party! Let's bring 'em all back, 'go fuck yourself' Cheney, 'we don't do body counts' Rummy, 'mushroom cloud' Condi, and 'cover the tits on that statue' Ashcroft. Who says you can't go home?
ReplyDeleteThese people really do live in hermetically sealed bubbles, don't they?
ReplyDeleteLike Murica could afford another 4 years of Dubya's Foreign Policy...
ReplyDeleteOh Mah Gawd!
These TeaPublicans don't have the slightest bit of reality or short term memory...
Weapons grade stupid.
ReplyDeleteJeb is one of th signees of the New American Century Project which was the basis for the invasion of Iraq. He is a war criminal like his brother, and Dick, I Have My Own Bunker, Cheney.
ReplyDeleteInteresting points regarding PNAC:
DeleteStuart Elden has stated that "The influence that PNAC had was astonishing".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
And Hillary too for voting yes to authorize the use of military force in Iraq correct? Seeing as that was actually the legal go-ahead.
DeleteI honestly don't think he wants to win. I'm not sure who is pushing him in that direction, but I don't see any burning ambition there.
ReplyDeleteIt may be his mother.
DeleteMaybe George has been teasing and goading him. George seem like he was (is) an asshole of a big brother.
DeleteJeb is running to prevent W from being tried for war crimes. W ran to prevent H.W. for being prosecuted. The family that slays together stays together.
ReplyDeleteThey are still pandering to the nut cases, it did not work the last time and it won't work now. It makes you ask yourself are they really that stupid? or do they not want to win this time either, they had a great candidate in John Huntsman and they blew it, apparently he was considered to smart for the Republican Party.
ReplyDeleteJeb is toast. Just my opinion, but he's got too big an albatross around his neck. He came out early saying he was 'his own man' then promptly names ex-Bushies as being on his 'team.' There hasn't been too much hoopla around him, either. It seems his party isn't cotton-ning(?) to him.
ReplyDeleteHe hasn't officially announced yet either meaning he can still pull in the big money without accounting or counting it!
I think his waltzing into the White House is NOT a forgone conclusion.
Did Barbra Bush drink while pregnant? Every pregnancy? Or was it the polluted water in Crawford or wherever she conceived her evil spawn?
ReplyDeleteLOL. It was all of the above.
DeleteBabs and HW never lived in Crawford. W moved to there to create the false image that he was a Texas rancher, er, rauncher.
DeleteActually, here's a fun fact: the ranch in Crawford was owned by someone else up until 1999. Bush never lived on a ranch or in Crawford. But he and Karl Rove hatched a plan to make Bush appear more like Reagan so, hence they came up with the idea to buy Bush a ranch and next thing you know, he's 'living' there ... a real cowboy, like Reagan. He's as phony as the day is long.
DeleteRemember that Jeb gave his brother the White House in 2000. I met a young woman years ago who was one of those "irate" Floridians (except that she lived in Michigan and worked for the GOP) who protested outside the sites where votes were being recounted. She thought it was a great lark! Look at the result though. No, Jeb, you should stay as far away from your brother as humanly possible. But then, I sure don't want you or anyone else in your family ever near the White House again, so keep relying on your sibling. It only shows that you're no brighter than he is.
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That photo! W appears to be the brighter brother. Jeb looks like a grown up Trig.
ReplyDeleteIs it an optical illusion, or are Jeb's head and face about 50% larger than W's? Maybe it means he has a larger brain?
ReplyDeleteIt really does look like that, doesn't it? They are so close to each other as to be hanging in, but George's head is very much smaller. Weird.
DeleteI guess the Republicans really want to lose again, what do they know we don't, another economic collapse?
ReplyDeleteDumber and more dumber.
ReplyDeleteI still feel ill when I see a picture of that lying, thieving, murdering, double talking, back stabbing, dirty dealing, rotten, low down, arrogant, selfish, government tit sucking, son-of-a-bitch. ACK! And spit!
Just when you think things have gotten fucked up, they just get fucked upperer. How desperate IS Jeb to embrace the devil? Hey, Jeb, take your mom's advice (remember her? The one with the misscarriage in the jar?) The white house doesn't need another Bush.
ReplyDeleteToo bad you can't take that back. Neal's chances just quadrupled!!
This picture is amazing. Jeb seems to outdumb Dubyah in it. I didn't know that was even possible.
ReplyDeleteExcept for a very few, very ignorant people, George W. Bush is regarded as a total foreign-policy disaster.
ReplyDeleteEven the pundits of Fox News and the Becks and Limbaughs know better - but they get paid to lie to the stupids.
Let him go be president of mexico.
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