Bush Backs Brother Jeb for White House

[elehhhhna]

Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:57 a.m. EDT
Bush Backs Brother Jeb for White House

President Bush suggested Wednesday that he'd like to see his family's White House legacy continue, perhaps with his younger brother Jeb as the chief executive.

The president said Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is well-suited for another office and would make "a great president."

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/10/110112.shtml?s=ic

[niyad]

1. so now they are openly admitting they are going to steal the next election

[LuckyTheDog]

15. I knew it'd happen

The Bush family is setting up Jeb as a "reluctant" candidate by working to create a buzz now:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/10/D8HGVTAG1.html

[Radio_Guy]

41. Now now, sir

Remember the words of The Magistrate, "Loss by the side one favors is not proof of fraud in an election." If Jeb Bush does win the presidency with his brother's numbers in the sewer does not mean the election will have been stolen.

:eyes:

[sabra]

2. looks like it's on the AP

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. Dynastic Regime is more like it

Legacy my ass :dem:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

8. Lynne "Horrible Little Troll" Cheney on the concept of a "Bush Dynasty"...

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2005/cyb20050601.asp

Showing Silliness, Morning Shows Look at Hillary v Laura in 2008 (Wednesday June 1, 2005)

Showing their silliness, the ABC and CBS morning shows on Tuesday jumped on Lynne Cheney's joking suggestion that "I think Mrs. Bush ought to run for President. If we want to have a Bush dynasty, let's get Laura Bush." With "Battle of the First Ladies" on screen, Good Morning America opened with side-by-side photos of Laura Bush and Hillary Clinton. ABC's Robin Roberts, in Manhattan, ludicrously claimed such a match-up was "the talk of Washington this morning" and called the imaginary match-up "very interesting," leading reporter Jessica Yellin to agree: "It sure is." Yellin claimed that Senator Clinton's "newfound popularity has Republicans scrambling to find a worthy contender and you won't believe where they're looking." Yellin soon characterized a pedestrian remark from Senator Clinton ("The American military has performed admirably"), as an example of how "lately she's sounding awfully presidential." On CBS's Early Show, Rene Syler insisted from Manhattan that "everyone" in Washington, DC "is buzzing about another race involving Clinton and Bush. Only this time the potential candidates are both women." A giddy Thalia Assuras soon trumpeted: "Some say it would be the battle of the century."

[Marr]

4. Not even Diebold could wedge Jeb's ass into the White House.

His brother is quickly becoming the most hated President of the last 100 years. The name isn't going to help.

And the man looks like a baked potato.

[npincus]

5. when HELL freezes over

Jeb will be prez.

[gatorboy]

6. Yes because that's what America's been demanding lately...

More Bush in the White House!!! We just can't get enough of them! :eyes:

[RedStateShame]

7. If anyone knows anything about this

I had heard a few years ago that Jeb was originally supposed to be the Bush that avenged Daddy's loss in 2000, but there was word of a scandal that might be unearthed. Does anybody have anything on that?

[jojo54]

11. I haven't heard of anything.

Don't live in FL but keep digging RedStateShame. If you find anything, make sure you let us here at DU know about it.

[tsuki]

13. Rumors of shady real estate deals, his girl is an addict and his

son tried to intimidate Texas Rangers. And don't forget his wife tried to smuggle in to the US a lot of luxury goods. The Cleavers, they ain't.

[jean]

14. Recalling Jeb having one or multiple extra-marital affairs ...

but these articles are from early 2001, post-election:

CNN Reliable Sources transcript: "Media Carries Unsubstantiated Story of Jeb Bush Affair; Is the Press Softer on George W. Than They Were on Clinton?"

From Salon: Jeb Bush denies affair rumors.

[Nickster]

40. He's got ties to gun/drug runners for the Contras. n/t

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

57. No, the problem was that Jeb lost his FLA race, so shrub jr. was the

default shrub dynasty candidate.

[tridim]

9. No wonder we've been seeing a lot of Jeb's gigantic head on TV lately

This is their ace in the hole? Jeb!?

I don't think they understand that Jeb will automatically inherit *'s legacy as worst President in American history.

[rniel]

10. No more clintons or bush's for me

thanks. I don't believe in royalty. This is America (isn't it). Get some new bloodlines in there for christs sake.

[Marr]

16. I agree, and- want to hear something funny?

In 2000 I was actually naive enough to think that Bush would lose the election simply because he was the son of a President, and Americans wouldn't like the scent of aristocratic entitlement on Junior. What a fool I was.

Then again, I also thought the electoral process was more or less representative of the peoples' will just 6 years ago, and that the media actually presented something with a resemblance to facts.

I don't mean to ramble on, but back in 2001 I stayed in Britain and France for awhile. I'd just graduated and I had just enough money left from my college job (which I quit after graduation) to spend some time backpacking and taking the train around Europe. I'd never been there before, but my god- talk about having your eyes opened. They've actually got a media there, where relevant issues are debated and discussed with a degree of openness. I came back to the Bush 9-11 America, and man, what a slap in the face. European media makes ABC News look like Fox News. We're just inundated with blatant propaganda from every side; radio, TV, books... even advertising is infused with it.

[rniel]

17. America is nostalgic for kings

The good ole days of tyranny.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. Sure, just what I want...a doughboy, Neo-con, save-Terri idiot.

[Jack Rabbit]

18. Do you have a reliable source?

Thanks in advance.

[BrotherBuzz]

26. Think Richard Mellon Scaife is just projecting?

I wonder if Worldnutdaily is angry NewsMax Scooped them on this hard breaking news story. Methinks we'll be flooded with these 'news' stories in the coming weeks and months as they desperately try to shape the meme of the day.

Who's behind the conservative news site NewsMax

Christopher Ruddy came to prominence through his reporting work on the death of Vince Foster and other alleged Clinton administration scandals for the New York Post and the Scaife-owned Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. In 1997, Mr. Ruddy authored the book "The Strange Death of Vincent Foster." Also in 1997, Ruddy and Pat Matrisciana, producer of the anti-Clinton videotape "The Clinton Chronicles," worked together on a videotape titled "The 60 Minutes Deception," a counterattack on the TV show and its correspondent Mike Wallace for debunking Ruddy's views on Foster's death. Accuracy in Media help to pay for the video's production costs. Matrisciana and Ruddy held a joint bank account that at one point contained roughly $3 million, according to Joe Conason and Gene Lyons in their book "The Hunting of the President." Not long after the "60 Minutes" video was released, Ruddy started NewsMax.

NewsMax, headquartered in West Palm Beach, Fla., but incorporated in Nevada, operates under the parent company NewsMax Media Inc. The business model of NewsMax is based on "an integrated approach between online and offline publishing and direct sales." NewsMax's corporate shell was formerly known as Sequoia Digital Corp. NewsMax calls itself a "major news portal," as well as "one of America’s leading sources of balanced news coverage." It claims its print magazine has a paid readership of 240,000, but it told the Securities and Exchange Commission in a prospectus for a proposed public stock offering filed in March 2002 that the paid circulation was 59,395. Ruddy said at the end of 2000 total investment in the company was "less than $10 million," and the company became profitable in November 2000, though the SEC filing details that NewsMax has lost nearly $11 million from its founding in 1998 through the end of 2001 and had yet to turn a profit. NewsMax withdrew the proposed IPO in 2003. Ruddy is the largest shareholder of NewsMax Media; Richard Mellon Scaife is the third-largest shareholder.

NewsMax Media, which Ruddy called "a mix between an online content site and a direct marketer," which has approximately 50 employees, raised $15 million from unnamed private investors in 2003; that same year, it expected to reach $8 million in sales revenue and was part of a group that purchased the West Palm Beach building where its headquarters are located for $8.55 million. NewsMax has a book-publishing joint venture agreement with the Prima Forum imprint of Random House.

Ruddy, according to his NewsMax biography, is a media fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace. He holds a bachelor's degree in history from St. John's University in New York and a master's degree in public policy from the London School of Economics.

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/primer.html

[Jack Rabbit]

30. You bet we will see a lot of these

Regardless of what one thinks of Cheney or the Bush regime, Cheney does not want to be president. This will be the first time since 1952 that a sitting Vice President has not sought to succeed a retiring President. Moreover, the Vice President has won his party's nomination in every case.

The the GOP nomination a wide open contest that will expose splits in the party that have been kept quiet for several years. It will be interesting to see how some Republican candidates dance around criticizing Bush.

A wild card in the 2008 race is impeachment. Many here and elsewhere (including Mrs. Rabbit's son, Jack) believe that Bush and Cheney can and should be impeached and removed from office. Should that happen after the November elections, that will make Nancy Pelosi president. That will effect both party's primary campaigns. Will Ms. Pelosi want a term as President in her own right? If so, Hilary and the others will find it hard to beat her. If not, the race will be open but Ms. Pelosi's handling of the office will be something of an issue. If Bush and Cheney are impeached and removed, many Republicans will be angry with GOP candidates who abandoned them but few others will entertain the idea of voting for a Bush-Cheney loyalist in November.

Should Ms. Pelosi become president, my advice to her would be to form a caretaker national unity administration. She would not be a candidate in 2008 and her Vice President would be a Republican who supported the removal of Bush and Cheney but has no presidential ambitions and also will not be a candidate in 2008. The focus of her time in office would be to keep the government on an even keel and to facilitate national healing, which will be badly needed after a bitter impeachment battle.

[HamdenRice]

32. Pelosi does not become president

This comes up every so often and gets corrected. You are confusing the order of succession with the procedure that will almost certainly be followed if both the vice president and president are impeached and removed from office.

The order of succession only applies if the president and vice president are removed or die so quickly that successors cannot be appointed -- for example, in a single accident like a plane crash. If both the presidency and vice presidency are vacant, the Speaker of the House becomes president. You are assuming that after november 2006, the Democrats take the House and Pelosi as minority leader becomes speaker.

Impeachment is a political process that is slow and managed. Most likely, Cheney would be removed first (just as Agnew was removed before Nixon), and the president would appoint a new vice president with the consent of Congress under the 25th Amendment. Nixon appointed Ford. Bush is certain to appoint a "clean", popular republican, probably McCain.

Then when the president is removed the congressionally approved new VP becomes president.

Even if the president is impeached and removed first, and Cheney becomes president, the 25th Amendment would be invoked and Cheney would appoint a VP, again, certainly a republican.

[Jack Rabbit]

48. I understand that

Yes, I am assuming that the Democrats will take control of the House and that Ms. Pelosi will become Speaker

And I am anticipating that both Bush and Cheney will be removed from office almost simultaneously. The 25th Amendment will not apply in this case.

In the case of Agnew, he was removed first for wrong doing entirely unrelated to Watergate. No one had any reason to believe he had anything to do with the White House horrors. However, there is every reason to suppose that Cheney is a co-conspirator -- indeed, one of the principle instigators -- of the manipulation of pre-war intelligence. Bush and Cheney will fall together.

Under normal circumstances, you would be correct. These circumstances are not normal.

[HamdenRice]

56. Yes, but it is a managed process

Politicians, even under extraordinary circumstances of impeachment, will seek a predictable outcome. They are lawyers and are obsessed with orderly processes. They will remove Cheney first if they can in order to get the president they want.

There would be no reason to remove Bush and Cheney simultaneously, and I doubt that could be done anyway, given how much time and effort it takes to remove one person.

Also, I seriously doubt the Democrats will try to install a Democratic president through impeachment. That would just give too much ammo to the right wing to harrass that person and allege a Democratic coup.

If Cheney and Bush are impeached, the replacement will be a caretaker republican till 2008.

But most importantly, it will be a highly managed process under the 25th Amendment.

[bdamomma]

19. they are not the Kennedys

that is for damn sure. We need to get them out. Neil Bush ugh, how disgusting.

[TexasLawyer]

20. They're already selling the bumperstickers

I can't imagine people are buying these!




http://www.cafepress.com/progopgear/470123



There's even a Jeb for president "classic thong." Ewwwwwwwww!!!!

[benddem]

21. and * is such

a good judge of character...and what the job entails.

[PDX Bara]

22. Demon Spawn

One thing this country does NOT need is more demon spawn of "Beautiful Mind" Barbara Bush, whether or not Daddy can buy the White House for him.

[Felix Mala]

23. Brother President is the LAST thing GW wants...

There's a chance Jeb wouldn't do much worse and a chance he could do a little better because he isn't as much the pandering idealogue the GW is. All his life, GW has lived in his younger brother's shadow. The last thing he would want is for Jeb to be a "better" president. So he's spending some of his steamy "anti-political capital" to smear Jeb now.

[drmom]

24. Now that's just what we need...

...since the first two *'s worked out so well.

[Dinger]

25. Pleeeeease jebbie Run!

Gawd, imagine Wes Clark vs. SpongeJeb! Drooool!

I had visions of the giggling murder vs. Clark in 2004 (Kerry kicked *'s ass by the way), and if jebbie runs, and if Clark wins the nom, I can still dream!

[DrDebug]

27. @&*(#^@*(#**() @#)(***% *(*()#)(@(*#%* @)#%***()#@ %(*!@)%

n/t

[Rocknrule]

28. Who would steal Florida for Jebbie?

[robbedvoter]

53. Diebold. Operation ran much smoother in 2004 (thanks to Kerry, Bev

and state of the art). By 2008, it should run on automatic pilot

[Synnical]

29. Jeb Bush: Make The Money And Run

http://www.sptimes.com/State/92098/Make_The_Money_and_Ru.html

Jeb Bush followed the family game plan: Earn your fortune, then run for public office. A vast network of deals made it possible.

By ALECIA SWASY
and ROBERT TRIGAUX

© St. Petersburg Times, published September 20, 1998

What exactly does Jeb Bush do for a living?

The 45-year-old Republican nominee for governor has hawked luxury condos in South Florida, sold industrial sites for IBM, made bank loans in Venezuela and marketed giant water pumps in Nigeria. He has even tried to sell imported shoes to Wal-Mart.

His corporate ties are a web of more than two dozen companies, including obscure, privately held ventures called Uno, Uno Dos and Oriental Trading, and bigger public companies such as SunTrust, Anchor Glass, Ideon and American Heritage Life Insurance.

Bush's network is far-reaching and lucrative. The 27-year-old who arrived in Miami in 1980 so broke that he used his American Express card to pay his MasterCard bill is now worth $2.4-million.

The son of former President George Bush has followed the family's patrician play book: Hurry up and get rich, then go into public service. Trading on the famous family name, Bush gained entry to exclusive business ventures courtesy of wealthy Republicans.

Much more at link - it's a long article, but very informative

[BurtWorm]

31. Good lord, no!

Haven't they tormented us enough?!

[johnnie]

33. Isn't Jeb Catholic?

Pukes don't run Catholics.

[UTUSN]

37. Jeb believes La Virgen de Guadalupe delivered 2000 for Shrub

because the SCOTUS edict went down on 12-12-2000, her feast day. However, since Jeb knows better than anybody WHO delivered Florida, his SAYING that is just to win the Hispanic vote--you know, Hispanic wife, Jeb's Spanish-speaking, AND the Virgin. Funny how virgins have such clout in these Dark Ages days.

[ShortnFiery]

34. Oh no!

The horror ... the hor-ror! :scared:

[diamondsndust]

35. this shouldnt be so surprising...

I said back in '04 that they were already grooming Jeb for '08 ... if they put another clown in office, my azz is moving to jamaica or mexico!

[HamdenRice]

36. Why Jeb has to be elected president

This makes perfect sense from the perspective of the Bush family, Cheney and Halliburton and the treasonous neo con death cult.

If anyone other than a loyal Bush family member or retainer is elected in 2008, then there will be hearings, prosecutions and long prison sentences for treason, murder, torture, and war crimes. The only thing that can prevent this is "four more years" or really "eight more years."

With the rigged electoral system, anything is possible. I don't think they even care about the illusion of plausibility.

I could see Jeb down in the polls against Al Gore in 2008, say, Jeb 25% to Gore 75%, and Jeb would "miraculously" pull out a victory because some stupid, newly named demographic allegedly came out in droves -- maybe pink lawn flamingo Methodist lacrosse dads -- whose surge just happens to overlap with where ever there are electronic voting machines.

Then the stupid, lazy mainstream media would report that Jeb won fair and square because of this last minute surge of pink lawn flamingo Methodist lacrosse dads and anyone who doesn't believe it is a crazy conspiracy theorist.

[robbedvoter]

50. Flawless scenario. And Dems will promise that they'll try harder in 2012

and they'll convince the pink lawn flamingo Methodist lacrosse dads (PLMMLD) that they can do better - and they'll write books about how to reach this new, suddenly important demographic.
And also, that AFTER they'll win (by surrendering to the PLFMLD....) they'll take care of the voting machines.

[Ilsa]

38. They'll have to steal it for it to happen.

Jebby couldn't make it even in Texas. Bush's approval in TX is only 45% as of last month.

[robbedvoter]

51. Nawww! They wouldn't do THAT now, would they?

[lutefisk]

39. They aren't going to leave gracefully

It seems that almost everything they do is to ensure the regime will stay in power. They have spent quite a bit of energy purging every federal agency that could be a threat to their hold on power. They are planning to be in control far past 2008.

Jeb-Condi '08!

[bdamomma]

42. I would just hate to see this

[porphyrian]

43. They should run JEB!, then we'll win. - n/t

[bdamomma]

44. it depends who he'll (jeb) be running against

can we keep focused on 2006 first. this subject gives me the willies.

[robbedvoter]

52. Nope. Diebold will come through, once again.

Like twice before.

[lpbk2713]

45. Dumbya said Dumbya would make a great president.

So that's that. Case closed.


Being recommended for anything by this asshole is not an honor. It's an embarrassment.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

46. As long as Diebold, ES&S, Triad, Sequoia...

...etc., are in place, this is a frighteningly real possibility. A lot can (and very likely will) happen between now and '08. Another staged major terrorist attack on U.S. soil, martial law, political protesters and other dissenters rounded up and swept off to one of the Halliburton Hotels, completion of Neocon's takover of our judiciary...

It is said that history repeats itself, that's because it does:

http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/germany-1933.htm

[newportdadde]

47. Been saying this was coming for years.

[robbedvoter]

49. Heck of a job Jeb!

yeah, cuz W has such a good hand with pickings lately!

[npincus]

54. Trent Lott just said that Hillary would beat Jeb (on"Hardball")

Tweety thought this was very interesting.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

55. Neocons obviously want Hillary to be...

...the Democratic nominee in '08. That should probably tell us something.