In the last month, I've heard a lot about the possibility of a Jeb Bush run for president and whether or not he could win either the nomination or the general election.

I just don't know what to write.

I know many are saying he's got a lot to overcome to gain the GOP's nomination but that we are even seriously debating or considering the prospect of a Bush III presidency after the unmitigated disaster that this nation suffered under Bush II, that the "Bush" name isn't completely toxic now, that the prospect of "Jeb Bush for president" isn't the punchline to some joke...

...well, I'm just speechless. I'm totally at a loss for what to write about what it says about my country that the prospect is even considered.

Gah!

The Bush name is hardly a mark of quality is it.
The Kennedys I get the Clintons I get but Bush the turd, I mean third.
On the other hand is there a republican candidate that isn't a joke?

Bush the Turd...I like it. If it wasn't for the fact that he (again like his bro and dad) would destroy our economy and try to blow the shit out of the rest of the non christian world, I would vote for him just so John Stewart would have an easy 4 years ahead of him. I can't imagine the Turd would fall far from the Ass....hahahaha

(December 18, 2014 at 5:20 pm)Minimalist Wrote:

I am not sure this is appropriate...even for A69

(December 18, 2014 at 5:07 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: In the last month, I've heard a lot about the possibility of a Jeb Bush run for president and whether or not he could win either the nomination or the general election.

I just don't know what to write.

I know many are saying he's got a lot to overcome to gain the GOP's nomination but that we are even seriously debating or considering the prospect of a Bush III presidency after the unmitigated disaster that this nation suffered under Bush II, that the "Bush" name isn't completely toxic now, that the prospect of "Jeb Bush for president" isn't the punchline to some joke...

...well, I'm just speechless. I'm totally at a loss for what to write about what it says about my country that the prospect is even considered.

Gah!

From what little I've paid attention to, any Repub presidential candidate would be disastrous, whether it be Bush, Cruz, Perry or whoever.

They've got near-historical majorities in the house and senate, as well as a slew of governorships. On the other hand, anytime a president is elected and has what seems to be a very favorable congress, they don't seem to get much done. But the GOP nominee could enter 2017 (ETA: assuming he won) with a pretty sizable "mandate."

The problem is that democrats do vote in the presidential elections. That's where the republicunts go all to shit.

(December 18, 2014 at 5:25 pm)Beccs Wrote: From what little I've paid attention to, any Repub presidential candidate would be disastrous, whether it be Bush, Cruz, Perry or whoever.

You know, that's much of the problem.

We only get two political parties in America, thanks to the way the system is rigged. So if it's not too much trouble, I'd like both parties to contain rational candidates ready to debate the issues intelligently, coming up with practical solutions to the problems of the world.

That one of our political parties has gone completely insane and is only capable of producing a clown car full of either incompetents or wackjobs for what should be the most coveted political job opening in America is truly a sign of how far away from rationality much of my country has drifted.

Whichever wackjob the Republicans pick, the alternative will, I'm utterly depressed to say, likely be Hillary Clinton, a corporate-friendly Conserva-Dem.

And people wonder why so few Americans vote.

We need to get Elizabeth Warren to run against Hilary