Jeb Bush To GOP: Don't Attack Obama

[babylonsister]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/07/jeb-bush-to-gop-dont-go-a_n_155850.html


Jeb Bush To GOP: Don't Attack Obama
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | January 7, 2009 09:09 AM


In an interview with the LA Times, President Bush's brother Jeb explained why he isn't running for Senate and asked Republicans to go easy on the new president:

Still, the former governor said he would continue to advocate for conservative ideas, and he offered a bit of advice to fellow Republicans: Don't target the new president with the same kind of partisan attacks that he said Democrats had hurled unfairly at his brother -- attacks that he summed up as "Bush-hating."


"The opposition should be about ideas, and not what my brother suffered through in the last eight years," he said. "I don't wish that on President Obama."

Bush said he had been impressed so far with Obama's appointments and called the president-elect someone who is "smart, disciplined, not rash."

On Sunday, former President H. W. Bush said that he hoped Jeb would run for Senate in Florida and one day, for president. The younger Bush son announced on Tuesday that he would not run. He said his decision wasn't based on politics, but on his "personal journey."

[polichick]

1. Not what his brother suffered through?! It was his brother making the whole world suffer!

[47of74]

10. The GOP Waaaambulance Rides Again!

[Pale Blue Dot]

2. So he's pissed off liberals, but won over Jeb Bush and Pat Robertson.

Great!

[ananda]

4. I am totally not represented ..

.. but crazed limbaughtomized conservatives are.

What a world.

[marimour]

18. actually

with an 82% approval rating seems like he only pissed off the extremes on both sides. I can handle that!

[alsame]

What his brother suffered? These self-absorbed, self-pitying

criminals known as the Bush Family should all keep their mouths shut from now on.

[glowing]

3. Oh another history revisionist... Its the Democrats that blocked the Bush

from being effective... Now they are in the minority and its all about bi-partisanship.

[Democrats_win]

5. W bush politicized his presidecy. He deserves the worst. THE WORST!

[BattyDem]

6. What your BROTHER suffered through the last eight years?!!?

Are you kidding me?? Have you noticed what he's done to our country? Have you heard about the suffering? We lost two skyscrapers, a major city and thousands of American lives. To top it off, we're stuck in two wars and our economy is in the toilet ... and HE'S the one who suffered?!?!?

That entire family has no freakin' clue! :eyes:

[Me.]

7. Another Message From The ConeHeads

Delivered from LaLa Land

[stop the bleeding]

11. Haha. *smiles*. nt

[DJ13]

8. "Give him some time to fix my brother's fuckups, THEN attack him"

[monmouth]

9. I'm predicting snow in Florida no later than six o'clock today. This guy

and his minions here in Florida did a lot of checking to see how he (Jeb) would do if he ran. They did not receive the answer they wanted...LOL.

[azmouse]

12. Yeah, and Clinton never, ever got attacked by the angelic Reps...

:eyes:

Hey Jeb. Wake up and smell the shit your brother heaped on this country.

[lib2DaBone]

13. Neocons...always adept masters at manipulating the press via soundbites...

"what my brother has suffered through".

They did "trial float" the JEB for Senate meme, and they saw how hated the Bush name is...

[bobd0]

14. Don't trust him. He's a Bush. nt

[louis-t]

15. Bushies don't have the good sense to just

slink away.

[zbdent]

16. so he admits his brother suffered from a LACK OF IDEAS ...

[peacetalksforall]

George caused suffering. Sorry if he suffered from his transparently held hate and

the ways we learned about it. Sorry that he was President.

[peacetalksforall]

17. George caused suffering. Sorry if he suffered from his transparently held hate and

the ways we learned about it. Sorry that he was President.

[LisaM]

19. This is actually completely typical of the Bush family. They love power.

I don't know if anyone's read some of the extremely odd notes G.H.W. Bush penned over the years to various presidents. They are very weird and sycophantic. He wrote notes to Nixon, Ford (IIRC), and Reagen. They're in the various biographies of the Bush family.

The Bushes, as I see it, firmly believe in elite and non-elite. They don't seem to be particularly fussy about how someone achieves elite status. This explains G.H.W. Bush's friendship and partnership with Bill Clinton. Under different circumstances, he wouldn't have socialized with Bill on a bet, now, he's okay. Sure, they like the old families and the Saudi Royals, but it's clear that there are other paths to the Bushes' favor.

[babylonsister]

20. Good insight. Someone on KO tonight

mentioned that the Bushes 43 thought the Clintons' taste was 'tacky' and wanted to change the colors post-haste.

[LisaM]

21. They apparently haven't gotten a glimpse, then, of their own taste

which runs to beige, and scrolly. I can refer you to 1) the HORRIBLE rug in the Oval Office (Clinton's was much better); and 2) the White House web site. Their taste is really execrable.