Jeb Bush says a 2016 run for the White House is not ruled out. This as the former Florida governor makes the rounds pushing his new book, Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution. Bush told Matt Lauer of the Today Show that a decision to run for Republican Party nomination is still a long way off. Bush will be speaking at the CPAC 2013 convention in Baltimore along with Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney, as well as other GOP notables. There has been some ire in the Media about Chris Christie not being invited to be among the 22 speakers at CPAC, although they forget that he gave the keynote address last year, which usually means no invite the following convention. So, is America ready for another Bush presidency?
I have mixed feelings about Jeb Bush. He seems okay in general and I′m sure his heart is in the right place. What bothers me, I suppose, is the growing suspicion that the only candidate the Republicans can field to win the presidency is another Bush. Have not two been enough already?
Politically, the GOP has a much deeper bench of potential candidates than do the Democrats for 2016. Aside from Chris Christie and Marco Rubio, we also have Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, Scott Walker and Bobby Jindal at the very least. Then there are the wild cards like Sarah Palin, Rick Perry and Dr. Ben Carson, who appears to be gearing up for some political career after he retires from Johns Hopkins. For the Democrats, we have Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Kind of like those old, cheesy movies where two iguanas are passed off as dinosaurs locked in a life and death struggle.
Jeb Bush may do a 2016 run for the White House given that he has some credentials on immigration and education issues which could be favored by voters. Even by those naughty, Low-Information-Voters! Bush wiggled out of committing to running for president when interviewed by Matt Lauer on the Today Show Monday. The Republican Party is still getting over the Mitt Romney loss and many see Marco Rubio as a potential savior for the GOP. But there is no doubt that Jeb Bush carries a lot of gravitas and political influence. Which brings us back to the question of whether or not America is ready for another President Bush?
March 5th, 2013 at 12:58 pm
Yeah why not, prolly better chance than anyone against Hillary.
March 5th, 2013 at 1:13 pm
You honestly believe that another Bush will win?
March 5th, 2013 at 1:18 pm
Meanwhile, the Dow hits a record high.
Oh, I forgot, it is meaningless, inflated, biased, irrelevant and indicative of nothing.
March 5th, 2013 at 9:48 pm
Yeah Buzz !
What with Obamacare kickin’ in and Gun Control up for a vote, ya’ll might as well run Hilary Clinton up the flagpole to save the day.
Zzzzt !
( that wuz the sound of the Democrat Party hitting the Bug Zapper before the end of the Kenyan’s term )
March 5th, 2013 at 10:34 pm
I very much doubt that Hillary Clinton will be defeated in 2016. However, Jeb prolly gives the best chance to win and can actually bring the party back together unlike anyone else.
March 6th, 2013 at 6:24 am
Whenever the Dow hits its high it crashes. Obama is trashing America and the Dow will follow shortly.
Hillary Clinton did such an awful job in the middle east she probable would win the presidency. Americans and the Democrat Party love incompetence. Poverty, lazyness dishonesty and government relience is the fashionable way of live in the U.S. Hillary and Bill set the trend and the media and the unseful idiots embrassed it.
March 6th, 2013 at 7:08 am
I’m not so sure about Hillary being an automatic win in 2016. Mother Nature has not been kind to Hill-Dog.
March 6th, 2013 at 8:14 am
Well Chrisie would be a “formidable” challenger, oh wait a minute, I forgot, he failed the GOP purity test.
Nevermind.
Yeah, go with another Bush.
Or any of the recent speakers at the CPAC event.
Speakers? Palin and Perry? Really?
Jindal is right.
Thank you.
March 6th, 2013 at 9:19 am
We’d see “Zeb vrs Clinton” as the word “Bush” will still be a no-no. I can almost visualize Oct of 2015 when Gallup polls that that 58% of Republicans think Zeb is the GOP contenders only name (something like Cher or Bono or something). Media Matters will be posting how Fox News has only aired the word “Bush” 14 times.
So Zeb releases a book 1 day saying we have to deny citizenship to unauthorized immigrants because it’s “absolutely vital to the integrity of our immigration system that actions have consequences” only to go on Morning Joe the next day to flip-flop by supporting a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
So it looks like Zeb has to distance himself from being a Bush or a Romney all while being a Bush and a Romney.
March 6th, 2013 at 9:52 am
Yawn, I respect myself too much to enter a 2016 election fray at this point.
If anything, the way the White House and the left are going Bush 2 could get a third term.
Who knows, maybe the sequestration will force to have no election at all and we’ll be stuck with another Chavez til he croaks.
March 6th, 2013 at 9:53 am
“we’ll be stuck with another Chavez til he croaks.”
Robert prolly got a woody just hearing that.