"Why Jeb Bush Still Won’t Be the Next Republican Nominee
By DANIEL LARISON • March 31, 2014, 8:00 PM
Jim Antle contemplates what a Jeb Bush presidential bid would represent:
Alas, Jeb is giving little reason to think a third Bush presidency would mark the reemergence of a Brent Scowcroft-style realism. He has been recycling the usual hawkish lines about President Obama encouraging “American passivity” and Paul promoting “neo-isolationism.”
“He showed a lot of knowledge about foreign policy that he must have been working hard to acquire,” said Ari Fleischer, the former Bush 43 press secretary whose boss’s “knowledge about foreign policy” gave us the Iraq War. The setting was an event hosted by casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, who has suggested dropping an atomic bomb on Iran.
It isn’t surprising that Bush’s hawkish rhetoric appealed to the Republican donor crowd that he was addressing, but I still don’t see how anyone with the baggage associated with the name Bush and weighed down by the failures of the last Bush administration is likely to win the party’s nomination or general election. We’re supposed to think that the voters won’t judge the next Bush according to the failures of the last one, but that overlooks how family dynasty politics works. "...
OmniScience wrote: I have no problem with criticizing the Bush administration for their failures, I'm just sick and tired of our Teflon "Transparent" President getting a free pass on everything. I remember quite well all of the "Stupid Bush" comments and the media continually portraying him as dumb and incompetent.
That's because Bush was stupid, dumb and incompetent....
