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Former
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Saturday that it's time for the Republican
Party to give up its "nostalgia" for the heyday of the Reagan era and
look forward, even if it means stealing the winning strategy deployed
by Democrats in the 2008 election.
"You can't beat something with nothing, and the other side has
something. I don't like it, but they have it, and we have to be
respectful and mindful of that," Mr. Bush said.
The former president's brother, often mentioned as a potential
candidate in 2012, said President Obama's message of hope and change
during the 2008 campaign clearly resonated with Americans.
"So our ideas need to be forward looking and relevant. I felt like
there was a lot of nostalgia and the good old days in the [Republican]
messaging. I mean, it's great, but it doesn't draw people toward your
cause," Mr. Bush said.
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I
remember thinking in 1999-2000, that if we had to have
another Bush in
the White House, Jeb was my first choice. Now I'd like to see at
least a century separate even another attempt at a third Bush
presidency. That said, Jeb does here articulate why today's
Republican
party is an irrelevancy, and will so remain, IMO, until these people
willing to trade principle for power are found only in the democrat
party with other Arlo Sphincters.
Leave Reagan behind? That
'nostalgia' Jeb talks about is for a principled attempt at restoring
government to something resembling the vision our founding fathers had
when creating it. Ronald Reagan was the embodiment of how
Hollywood
used to portray us, and how we used to think of ourselves. Jeb,
your brother George displayed a sense of decency, and love of
country-first that was
missing, and is again now. Too bad he missed
the part about government being the problem, and not the
solution. To
me, you're just as dead now as Jack Kemp (may he RIP).
Ronald Reagan is the America I once agreed to die for, and still
do. The Democrat's "something" is what I was fighting against
then, and still am, damn you.
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You can add up these 3 Bush's and they don't come close to two atoms of Ronald Reagan.
ReplyDeleteolds-mo-william
The Bush ship has sailed, and JEB missed the boat. I don't think the country will support another Bush Presidency after the way the media managed to frame the narrative on the last one.
ReplyDeleteBill
http://willstuff.wordpress.com
The problem with the Stupid Party (and a million thanks to Kim DuToit for coining the phrase) is that the leadership can't get their heads out of their butts, or their butts out the the DC-NYFC corridor. We have tried to tell them that we don't want Evil Party (KDT once again) Lite, but all they hear is the MSM trumpeting the "Center". I'm to the point where I say phuque (doesn't end in uck) the Repubs, I'm voting conservative 3rd party. The leadership of the Stupid party has made it as irrelevent now as are the Whigs.
ReplyDeleteSFAOV Sgsaur
Leaving RR behind is why the GOP is out of power.
ReplyDeleteIf I was to even try to argue that the Bush family was a positive for conservative America, what would I base that argument on? The first two years of Dubya? 41 was a spineless disaster that still can't find the gumption to defend his record. I never noticed any real magic in Jeb. Who died and made them the right wing Kennedys?
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ReplyDeleteThe best 3, and possiby only arguments in the world for why the Bush presidents were good for conservatives AND America and are:
1:Dukakis
2.Gore
3. Kerry
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Amen, Rodger.
ReplyDeleteGrinfilledCelt
Jeb just confessed that they don't have any ideas, but are willing to abandon tried and true ideas and principals in order to (re)gain power. republican/democrat it's the same damn thing, corrupt and useless
ReplyDeletePart of his comment was true: "the other side has something"
ReplyDeleteThey had a damned fine organization and plenty of money that won them the election. Their organization touched all the bases, stomping good people, giving us McCain, and getting out the vote where it was most important. Lefties live for politics, which makes doing all that easier, and conservatives haven't the taste for it and try to do something instead for themselves and their families.
If we don't man the phones, get out the vote, turn out to vote, get involved in primaries to make sure the Steele led RNC centrists don't foist more Sphincters and McCains on us in 2010, we are so screwed, FUBAR, for decades if not forever.
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