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Topic: Florida Lawmakers Gush Over Jeb Bush |
Florida Lawmakers Gush Over Jeb Bush
Associated Press, by Gary Fineout
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Posted By:jackson, 2/15/2013 8:53:27 AM
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| TALLAHASSEE | Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush returned Thursday to the state capital, where he was showered with high praise and urged by fellow Republicans to run for president. Bush was making his first visit to Tallahassee in more than two years. His last visit came when he attended Gov. Rick Scott´s inauguration. He made stops in the Florida Capitol, where he talked to legislators about education and immigration — while stopping short of rendering his opinion on such items as Scott´s own pitch this year to give teachers an across-the-board $2,500 pay raise. "The Legislature is about ready to start,"
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Comments: He´s running for sure. And giving people like me more reason to say a pox on the Republicans and tuning out completely. To call it discouraging is insufficent.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Pros7767, 2/15/2013 8:59:56 AM (No. 9177745)
No more Bush presidencies. 2 are enough unless we plan to hand the 2016 election to the Dems again.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
StormCnter, 2/15/2013 9:00:50 AM (No. 9177748)
Nothing like judging quickly, hmm? What do you say we wait a bit and see if Jeb wants to run and, if he does, what he has to say? There will be many possible candidates to choose from.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
tisHImself, 2/15/2013 9:13:54 AM (No. 9177771)
I hope he recieves twice as much honest consideration as moderate Republicans gave everyone whose last name wasn´t Romney. The Bush machine is broken. Demand more than well connected mediocrity the hallmark of previous Bush administration.
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bubby, 2/15/2013 9:14:38 AM (No. 9177772)
Well it doesn´t matter if he runs or not Hillary will be our next President and she will continue the destruction of our country. The Democrats will make sure along with the support of the Republicans that all the illegals who get amnesty will be eligible to vote in 2016. Between amnesty and all the voter fraud the Democrats have perfected we are headed to a one party rule like Venezuela.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LouD, 2/15/2013 9:14:56 AM (No. 9177773)
It seems some people are putting Jeb Bush into the Sarah Palin category. Don´t even consider Sarah-Jeb-Marco,, etc., as a candidate for president. Right away they are showing their own prejudices. Never mind who would make the best candidate; I just don´t want so and so. The dems may fight over the nomination, but they actually back their candidate, even if they are worthless, while the pubs continue to snipe at their candidate because their choice couldn´t run.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Johnny Angle, 2/15/2013 9:24:29 AM (No. 9177792)
Bush Gush Derangement Syndrome.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 2/15/2013 9:31:38 AM (No. 9177807)
Great! Then, FLorida can keep him.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Carpe Diem, 2/15/2013 10:11:41 AM (No. 9177899)
Stay out ´da bushes´.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lala, 2/15/2013 10:22:08 AM (No. 9177926)
Fine, let him be governor of Florida again. He was, I believe, a successful and well-liked governor. But he needs to stay our of the POTUS race. I´m sure he´s a decent, smart man and probably should have been president instead of his brother. But that ship has sailed. No more Bushes.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 2/15/2013 10:56:49 AM (No. 9177998)
I don´t think Jeb Bush wants to run for President. Many people here in Florida would like him to do so because he was the best governor Florida ever had. I was glad that Florida has no foreign policy because of the immigration issue but it does not so I was well satisfied with everything he did.
When Rubio was running for the Senate, Jeb kept a low profile but I knew he was a Rubio backer because Jeb´s sons were very active campaigners for Rubio. Some people now think he would be Rubio´s rival for the candidacy but I doubt it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
sanchin, 2/15/2013 11:11:39 AM (No. 9178032)
Articles like these have the same effect as my throwing bread in a Japanese Restaurant´s Carp (Koi)Pond.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
enuf8, 2/15/2013 11:18:40 AM (No. 9178047)
Here again, the MSM/LSM will be pushing THEIR choice for a Republican nominee. When will the alphabets start their mantra of the same.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lostinmassachusetts, 2/15/2013 12:20:51 PM (No. 9178169)
As well they should. He was a great governor, and would make a great president. And to #1, #6, #8 and other anti-Bushies, you are entitled to your opinions, but save your "No More Bushes" rant for the next meeting of Bush-Derangement-Syndrome Sufferers Anonymous.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
absalom, 2/15/2013 2:45:16 PM (No. 9178445)
#13. So Jeb Bush would make a great POTUS. Based on what? To be taken seriously, an opinion needs to be grounded in reality. ´Read my lips Bush´ was a one term feckless failure who ushered in Clinton. George the Compassionate, arguably the worst R POTUS of the century, gave us the Iraq fiasco, exponential govt growth, skyrocketing debt and deficits, the bailout of autos and banks plus Obama. But things will be different w/Jeb. Really??? All you have to know about the Bushes is that they are the spawn of Prescott and Samuel, core members of the turn of the century secular, progressive and corporatist gang who produced the likes of Hoover, Landon, Dewey, Wilkie Rockefeller, Scranton, Romney Sr, among others; losers all. Of course rock solid blue Mass, thinks the likes of Edward Brooke and Willie Weld are the measure of great R politicians. Sad.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Sunhan65, 2/15/2013 10:20:18 PM (No. 9179106)
Well, I was recently reminded that Jeb Bush was a two-term governor.... So he´s got that going for him.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 2/16/2013 1:32:23 AM (No. 9179225)
He will run because mamma Bush wants to see three Bush´s in the wh before she leaves this earth. Count on it.
Count on many not voting at all.
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