Jeb Bush to Skip Republican Convention

[Rose Siding]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Gov. Jeb Bush said Tuesday that he won't attend the Republican National Convention next week in New York, where his brother will be renominated, because of the Hurricane Charley recovery.

"There will be a role later on for me to play" in the presidential race, Bush told reporters. "The recovery phase of this is important to get started and ... being up in New York is inappropriate."
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Bush said he had planned to have a limited role anyway, saying he doesn't really like the national political scene.

"I just don't like all that big dog, big foot national stuff," said Bush, who attended the 2000 Republican Convention in Philadelphia. "I'm going to help my brother and we've got a great team in place and they're working really hard, but being on the Today Show to talk about inside political stuff is not who I am and that's kind of what you do when you're at these national conventions."

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-convention-jeb-bush,0,5903307.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

So is he not going because of the hurricane or because he doesn't like nat'l politics anyway? Or is it deep seated resentment that George beat him to the Wh? Or is it really something as simple as still having a few voting machines left to rig...

[goforit]

1. How convenient!!.......WTC 911 spirits haunting their(*) pittiful souls!!

So how brave are these whimpy Bushes?????

COWARDLY PSYCHOPATHS!!!!!

[soothsayer]

2. Eh, who cares. I hope lazy dumbya doesn't show up either

Asswipes all.

[Cha]

3. Funny!

"Or is it really something as simple as still having a few voting machines left to rig"...

I go with this.

Does that mean he doesn't vant to be president?

[AndyTiedye]

12. Maybe Someone Left a Window Open In the Diebold Machinez Storeroom...

...when Charlie came through. ;-)

It would be too bad if those nice shiny new voting machinez got all full of water :nopity:

[KoKo]

4. Insider polls in Florida showing his popularity going down? Ties to Chimp

brother not the best advertisment right now? Doing the "behind the scenes evil work for his brother by putting the machinery in place to throw the Florida vote again? Or, just another nasty, arrogant Bush who disdains everyone and everything? :shrug:

[whistle]

5. Right, Jeb needs to stay in Florida and direct the programming....

...of all of the Diebold touchscreen voting machines and the disenfranchisement of minority voters through massive voter registration list purges. He is a lot of work to complete and only 73 days to do it in. Pumpkin head duffus:argh:

[Rose Siding]

7. I just hope he didn't have a tip off about anything

That was my first thought when we learned George wouldn't be there for anthing but his speech.

[NMDemDist2]

8. that's what hubby said too and hubby hasn't been wrong yet

he wonders what they have planned up there :scared:

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

13. Picking up the nomination

He's planning to pick up the nomination (and the sympathy vote) on the off chance that something goes BOOM! Hmm, I wonder what would happen if all the top people in the Republican party died in a terrorist attack. Things that make you go hmmm.

[Doosh]

6. heck, George W is practically skipping it himself!

only 5 hours in NYC???

[truthisfreedom]

10. just long enough to completely disrupt rush hour traffic both ways, into

and out of Manhattan. another perfect day in the land of make-believe!

[peekaloo]

9. big dog, big foot national stuff?

Big Head Jeb has a way with words.

[redandstinky]

11. Republican Convention Strategy

They are going to try to be as much like Democrats as they possibly can. I'll betcha. It will drive their far-right, racist voting base crazy, but they're going to do it. In fact, two bucks says they take a positive view of stem cell or some other issue that the Dems dominate. Now would be the perfect time to call for something really hardcore like universal healthcare and see how far they go.