Jeb Bush

The Republicans need to find a superior candidate that will lead the GOP, if we want to get Obama out of office in 2012. Jeb Bush is the former Governor of Florida. His father George H. W. Bush was the 41rst President of the USA. His brother, George W. Bush was the 43rd President of the United States. They hope that Jeb's son, George Prescott Bush might run for an office in the future. Jeb Bush has said in the past he does not want to be President of the United States and did not campaign for Senator in 2010. As of May 2011, he has made it perfectly clear he does not want to run for President.

He is very capable, but "Bush Fatigue" still has a strong hold in the land, and that would weigh against Jeb.

Like genghis said, we just finished 8 years of W so I doubt America would embrace another Bush. The name is old news with most people.

And after that, how about one of the Bush family dogs or cats?

Didn't we already have one retard for president.

As Governor, Jeb heroically saved every Florida taxpayer about 70 cents.... by denying false teeth and eyeglasses to the elderly and handicapped poor.Unfortunately, that kind of cruelty resonates with some voters.

People would really have to hate the fuck out of Obama for anyone named Bush to even get a whiff of the nomination...

THREE STRIKES AND AMERICA WILL BE OUT.

I think when Obama gets done, AMerica will be crying for another Bush to come into office!

I think the last name has him at a disadvantage for presidential nominee, I think the American public is sick of Bush's.

It is way past time for the Republican Party to put the entire Bush family into the past.

I like Bush.... Oh, you mean the former governor... sorry. Apologies to Jeff Dunham and Achmed the Dead Terrorist) More seriously, this brand name has run its course for the GOP.

NO MORE BUSHES!! WE'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THAT STUPID FAMILY

We've already had 16 years from that family. We don't need any more repeats of their politics.

Can we please have someone who is not a Bush or a Clinton?

Jeb is an old Brand name. Heck Chelsie Clinton may run!

I like Jeb Bush for president! Like Bobby Kennedy as a younger brother of Jack Kennedy! The former U.S. President George Bush Sr. said, "My son Jeb was not so interested to run for the president in 2008. But if a Democrat wins the president in 2008, he will run for the president in 2012!"  President George W. Bush said, "Jeb makes great president". Jeb Bush carried the unpopularity and disaproval of his brother George, but he is a better awesome conservative 2-term governor or U.S. senator who had been a real estate broker-developer who is a better economic solver than Alan Greenspan (who caused the economic major problems in the USA that ruined President Bush's economic job approval).

Yes Jeb is great. I think this man is sooo much better than W.

I do think Jeb could do a better job than George W., but I don't think he's going to run because it still would be considered too close to his brother's Presidency, and also given to the fact that George W. really didn't do that great of a job.  W's morals and Christianity that he claimed he had was the only thing going for him.

The last name brand is done for now.

Four years is just not enough time to go state to state, county to county adjusting the alignment of voting machines.

After this eight year fiasco, the Republicans might want to consider exhuming the body of Confederate cavalry leader J.E.B. Stuart and run that corpse- instead of picking anyone with a surname remotely like Fearless Leader's, never mind his kin.

At the risk of sounding like a Nair commercial....please....no more Bush.

Jeb has a fair chance of being the next Republican front runner. All he has to do is change his name, go on a massive steroid regime, put on Moari war paint until he looks like an Uruk-hai and run on a platform that says he, too, just rose from the netherworld...

I like bush, but not the political ones if you know what i mean!  Im talking about the ones you go down on!

Regardless of his qualifications, his last name would do him in.

Jeb Bush? Jeb freakin' Bush? You think this guy knows more than (1) the husband, (2) the Florida court system or (3) the Supreme Court? You people that just loooove the law have to live with the courts (multiple) decisions. Jeb Bush in charge of a family decision is like Jim Morrisson in charge of a rehab clinic. Save Terri? Save her from what? Years of bedsores and eating strained peas through a straw? Toughen up, people. Update- LOVE THAT AUTOPSY, eh? Ain't that science somethin'?

Now he's going after Michael because the autopsy didn't show evidence of an eating disorder- despite the fact that the autopsy wouldn't show evidence regardless of whether there was one or not. Sounds like sour grapes to me.

Politicians getting involved in this would be a huge mistake. The courts are supposed to interept the laws and make judgements based on their interpretations. Its just that simple.

One aspect of this whole issue that none of the legal commentators in the media seem to be focusing in on is the distinction between public and private law. Yes, the Congress and the President intervening in a state courts' ruling was in violation of the federalism and separation of powers, but how was Jeb Bush's intervention outside of his mandate according to law? Very basically, there are two types of litigation, public litigation involves the government as a party in a suit, and private litigation, which is a suit involving the affairs of private individuals. The Schiavo case was a dispute between two individual parties, the government was never at any point a party to this suit. Under common law, state action is not permissible in a private case where there is no state or federal issue at stake. This stems from the whole notion that individuals have the freedom to make their own claims based on the merits of the situation. Unless there is any state or federal issue at stake, the ... Read more

Just like I said for his brother, this isn't a decision to be made by the executive branch.

So let's play this out. Let's say that Jeb organizes an Elian style rescue of Terri Schiavo and succeeds in prolonging her life. This would mean that a politician ignored the state and federal courts, and literally took the law into his own hands. I'm not saying this stuff doesn't happen - it happens all the time in places like Russia, Peru, and Venezuela where rule of man has a history of trumping rule of law. But having lived in a few countries like this, it's sort of frightening when men are making up the rules as they go along. Those of you that have read my posts on politics know that rule of law is a pretty big deal to me - I hope that Jeb doesn't get caught up in the emotion and the politics and the drama of this one sad case and do something that sets a scary precedent.

This has been a sad use of an issue for political gain. What gives Jeb the right to interfere with an individual's choice to die?

Toughen up people? What, prey tell, should we toughen up to? Would you say that to the victim of a rape? Would you say that to the family of a murder victim? Would you say that to a child who had just been molested? Jeb Bush is certainly not the best person to decide Terri's fate but the current court system is very unregulated and major decisions that impact our lives are being determined, in many cases, by just one person's interpretation of the law.

Jeb Bush is lucky he can pick out his socks. the Bush's are like a liter of cats or dogs, they get dumber and more dependent the younger they are in the chain.

It isn't so much that he shouldn't decide her fate, he is not going to. It is too late, Terri will die the death that all of our Strict Constructionist Liberal Constitutional experts (who suddenly believe in states' rights) are clamoring for, and they won't even give Jeb credit for staying out of the fray. This is just another bash the political enemy list like so many others. The end run pulled by Congress and President Bush was all a waste of time and effort, whoever the original Florida judge was, who found that this sham of a husband (who wanted nothing more than her death and what's left of the malpractice suit money, and is the last person to see her before she went into this brain-damaged condition) is primarily responsible for this helpless woman, and can euthanize her if he so desires. Not humanely, quickly, by lethal injection. No, slowly, dehydrating and starving her, over a two week period. You are ok with starving an innocent brain-damaged woman, but someone who is co... Read more