No offense to Jeb Bush, but this suggestion from the current President Bush is just a bad idea:
(CNN) – For only the second time in nearly three decades, there won’t be a Bush on the presidential ballot this November. But that absence may not be a permanent one, the current White House occupants hinted Sunday.
President Bush was asked by a SkyNews correspondent whether the end of his term marked the end of the Bush presidential dynasty that began with his father’s Oval Office tenure 20 years ago.
In response, Bush singled out his brother, who has often been mentioned as a possible Republican presidential contender. “Well, we’ve got another one out there who did a fabulous job as governor of Florida, and that’s Jeb,” he said. “But you know, you better ask him whether or not he’s thinking of running. But he’d be a great president.”
Frankly, I think at this point that we need an unofficial moratorium on anyone named Bush or Clinton running for President for at least the next 50 years. Dynasties are a bad thing in general, and a worse thing in American politics. The Bush’s have already accomplished something that only the Adams family did and, much like John and John Quincy, the first President Bush was, in retrospect, much better than the second. We don’t need a third.
June 16th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
It’s sickening to me that W thinks that folks would be OK with such an idea. Gross. These folks all need to be very very far away from any sort of leadership position.