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Title: Jeb Bush to help party rebuild OR Yes It's True They Are Bat Crazy
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Published: May 1, 2009
Author: Miami Hearld
Post Date: 2009-05-01 23:41:51 by tom007
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Jeb Bush to help party rebuild Former Gov. Jeb Bush and other Republican leaders are holding the first of a series of town hall meetings aimed at remaking the party's image. Get Adobe Flash player * Jeb Bush's career in photos BY BETH REINHARD breinhard@MiamiHerald.com When national Republican leaders brainstormed about repairing their party's image after the setbacks of the last two elections, it was only natural that they would turn to Jeb Bush. The popular two-term governor who led the fourth largest state to Republican dominance. A bilingual, telegenic and powerful near-celebrity. A policy wonk who heads his own education think tank. Who better to travel the country, mingle with voters and articulate the Republican Party's agenda through the newly formed National Council for a New America? Bush is slated to join former presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Republican congressional leaders at the group's first town hall meeting Saturday in northern Virginia. ''He's really the perfect person to do it because he governed successfully for eight years in a swing state, a purple state, as a conservative and left office very popular,'' said Justin Sayfie, a former Bush aide who last year started his own group called ``Rebuild the Party.'' But Bush's brand of leadership is also associated with the rigid conservatism that some Republicans blame for repelling voters and most recently, veteran Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who switched parties. Dubbed ''King Jeb'' by one Democratic lawmaker, Bush intervened in the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case, helped wrap up the controversial 2000 presidential election that put his brother in office, and pushed through taxpayer-funded vouchers for private schools. ''Jeb may be a better spokesman for the Republican Party than Rush Limbaugh, but that's a very low bar,'' quipped Democratic state Sen. Dan Gelber of Miami Beach. ``He wears the right-wing badge very proudly, and as governor he didn't have any appetite for moving the party to the center.'' The new group also includes Republican presidential nominee John McCain, prompting the national Democratic Party to circulate a blogger's snarky observation that 'things are really humming along when your `rebranding' effort is led by your recently crushed presidential nominee and your discredited party leader's brother.'' Sayfie called that a ''cheap shot.'' He added, ``People judge the governor on his record and the president on his record.'' The Republican Party's attempted makeover is getting under way just as the current governor of Florida, Charlie Crist, is mulling a high-stakes bid for the U.S. Senate. The Democratic Party preemptively targeted Crist this week in its first advertisement of the 2010 election. The spot is running only in Tallahassee, but it signals that the Democratic Party intends to play hard for the seat now held by Republican Mel Martinez. PRESSURE ON CRIST Specter's defection to the Democratic Party could increase pressure on Crist to run, since he's the closest the Republican Party has to a shoo-in. Or the Senate could seem less intriguing to Crist since Democrats are poised to lock down a filibuster-proof majority. Crist said Specter's switch wouldn't influence his decision and didn't necessarily reflect on the state of the Republican Party. ''He's got to do what's in his heart,'' Crist said. Other prominent Republicans said Specter's timing hurts at a time when the party is struggling to offer credible alternatives to a popular Democratic president. ''The Specter departure is significant because of the low point the party is in right now,'' said Al Cárdenas, who served as chairman of the Republican Party of Florida under Bush. ``Our party is thirsting for new and creative ideas. At the present time, we've kind of fallen flat in terms of the quality of our substance and style.'' 1. Full Story 2. 1 3. 2 4. Next » * recommend * email * print * share * Buzz up! FARK it! Post to MySpace Add to facebook Send to AIM Seed Newsvine Add to Reddit Add to Google Bookmarks DIGG This Add to del.icio.us Join the discussion The Miami Herald is pleased to provide this opportunity to share information, experiences and observations about what's in the news. Some of the comments may be reprinted elsewhere in the site or in the newspaper. We encourage lively, open debate on the issues of the day, and ask that you refrain from profanity, hate speech, personal comments and remarks that are off point. In order to post comments, you must be a registered user of MiamiHerald.com. Your username will show along with the comments you post. Thank you for taking the time to offer your thoughts. Comments (0) You must be logged in to leave a comment. Login | Register
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#1. To: All (#0)
The popular two-term governor who led the fourth largest state to Republican dominance. A bilingual, telegenic and powerful near-celebrity. A policy wonk who heads his own education think tank. Who better to travel the country, mingle with voters and articulate the Republican Party's agenda through the newly formed National Council for a New America? Could this be a partisan hack???
"Satan / Cheney in "08" Could a bear defecate in yon woods?
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! YES! YEEESSSS! Use YET ANOTHER BUSH to "reform" the Grotesque Old Pederast party. YES! I think they should put EVERY member of the Bush clan into the highest possible offices! What better way to put a "fresh face" on the "Got Ours Party"? Oh yes, yes, please, please put Jeb Bush in charge of the Gay Oligarch Party. YES! YES! YES! DO IT! DO IT! DOOOOOOO ITTTTT! YES!
it was only natural that they would turn to Jeb Bush.
#2. To: tom007 (#1)
Could this be a partisan hack???
Lord Acton
#3. To: tom007 (#1)
When national Republican leaders brainstormed about repairing their party's image after the setbacks of the last two elections, it was only natural that they would turn to Jeb Bush.
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#4. To: Elliott Jackalope (#3)
Something tells me you are way too excited about the prospect of Jeb Bush "reforming" the R wing of the party/gang.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
#5. To: James Deffenbach (#4)
What I really want is to see the Republican party puke and die. I want to see it fail, collapse, expire, cease to be, join the crowd invisible. I want to see gophers deliver mail to it. I want to see it fade into the history books, to be forever consigned to the chapter headed "grotesque failures that everyone was extremely happy to see dead and gone".
| Gold and silver are REAL money, paper is but a promise. |
#6. To: Elliott Jackalope (#5)
You fergot, "I want to see it's bloated corpse heaved onto the pyre; I want to see it erased from the page of time."
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#7. To: tom007 (#0)
this is definitely a *you've gotta be sh!tting me*
The smooth criminal transition from Bush/Cheney to Obama
#8. To: Elliott Jackalope (#5)
I think that would be ok but would only take care of half the problem. The D wing of the party needs to go too. We need to start from scratch 'cause what we have now ain't working.
What I really want is to see the Republican party puke and die.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
#9. To: James Deffenbach (#8)
Agreed. I'm no fan of the Democrats either. But man, do I genuinely despise the Republicans. It's a case where I really dislike one, but deeply loathe the other.
| Gold and silver are REAL money, paper is but a promise. |
#10. To: Elliott Jackalope (#9)
To me, they are equally despicable. Obama has proven in his short time there that he is going to make Bush look like an amateur when it comes to spending other people's money and it appears he is never going to get us out of any wars, just start new ones. What a sorry sack o' $#it Obama is.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
#11. To: tom007 (#0)
You just can't make this stuff up or proof they are completely clueless.
But Bush's brand of leadership is also associated with the rigid conservatism that some Republicans blame for repelling voters and most recently, veteran Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who switched parties.
"Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life." — Dr. Richard Lindzen, MIT Professor of Meteorology
#12. To: James Deffenbach, Elliott Jackalope (#8)
My worry is that when it dies they will slap another name on it with the same ole leadership doing the same ole crap.
I think that would be ok but would only take care of half the problem. The D wing of the party needs to go too. We need to start from scratch 'cause what we have now ain't working.
"Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life." — Dr. Richard Lindzen, MIT Professor of Meteorology
#13. To: farmfriend (#12)
My worry is that it isn't going to die, just morph into what Russia was under Lenin and Stalin. It appears to be headed that way.
My worry is that when it dies
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
#14. To: Elliott Jackalope (#5)
Haha.
I want to see gophers deliver mail to it.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#15. To: James Deffenbach (#13)
Yes.
It appears to be headed that way.
"Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life." — Dr. Richard Lindzen, MIT Professor of Meteorology
#16. To: farmfriend (#12) (Edited)
Good suspicion, as that is precisely what is likely to happen.
"My worry is that when it dies they will slap another name on it with the same ole leadership doing the same ole crap."
#17. To: Ferret Mike (#16)
They obviously have an agenda that leads to fascism. They will get there any way they can. Those in power will not give it up so easily.
"Controlling carbon is a bureaucrat's dream. If you control carbon, you control life." — Dr. Richard Lindzen, MIT Professor of Meteorology
#18. To: James Deffenbach (#10)
Genghis W. Bush was such a disaster that the Jews were able to put a black saint in the White House a generation early. The bankers, as usual, are still calling the shots. Obama has given them complete control. More than likely Israel will innate World War Three before the year is out. Millions, perhaps billions will perish before the Zionist entity is eliminated from the Middle East.
To me, they are equally despicable. Obama has proven in his short time there that he is going to make Bush look like an amateur when it comes to spending other people's money and it appears he is never going to get us out of any wars, just start new ones. What a sorry sack o' $#it Obama is.
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
#19. To: Zoroaster (#18)
Plausible. Perhaps unnecessary, and maybe impossible given all factors. But worth considering.
#20. To: Deasy (#19)
Mine is a worst-case senario. The only certainty is that the international bankers have consolidated and extended their control of America under Obama, who'a Zionist puppet.
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
#21. To: Zoroaster (#20)
The worst case scenario is the Israeli Samson option, which could not only end WWIII but bring down a thermonuclear rain of death upon every living creature on the planet. That's the kind of psychological blackmail this SLC has on the world.
#22. To: Deasy (#21)
It all boils down to the assassination of JFK, who was not in favor of Israel becoming a nuclear power. LBJ gave Israel the green light.
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
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