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Originally Posted by roachboy
as for the question of jeb bush running for president: i think you'll find that it never happens. even the right knows that, as of now, bush is among the least popular presidents ever, that his policies are not widely supported by the public, and can derive the obvious consequence--that another bush would be understood as more of the same. jeb would be among the finer gifts the right will give the rest of us. and i doubt very much that even the right's arrogance goes so far as to authorize a second bushrun for president any time soon.
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I agreed with everything you said until this paragraph. I think he will eventually run, and it wouldnt' at all surprise me if he won. The public has an amazing ability to come down with political amnesia. Remember, Bush Jr's dad was president, and was so horridly unpopular that he didn't even get two terms, even though he was the Reagan administration's golden boy. Yet the public elected bush in '04 - an amazing feat considering that even though they didn't elect him in '00, they still got a 4 year preview of what a legitimate Bush administration would do.
So unless Bush were to turn into Hitler version 2.0 tomorrow, I don't think his incompetence would significantly hurt his brother's chances.
And Ustwo, republicans have no business whining about a permanent underclass when it's the republican-backed wealthy tax breaks that sustain the underclass today.