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Subscribe to RSSNBC's Chuck Todd talks to msnbc's Thomas Roberts about how Jeb Bush's endorsement of Mitt Romney could add to the push to end the GOP primary infighting.
Jeb Bush endorsed Mitt Romney for president on Wednesday, giving the former Massachusetts governor another important boost from the prominent political clan.
Bush, a figure whom many Republicans had urged to seek the presidency, called Romney this morning to inform him of his plan to endorse, according to a Romney campaign official.
The former Florida governor joins his father, former President George H.W. Bush, in endorsing Romney. Jeb Bush's brother, former President George W. Bush, has not made an endorsement in the race.
Jeb Bush said in a statement:
Congratulations to Governor Mitt Romney on his win last night and to all the candidates for a hard fought, thoughtful debate and primary season. Primary elections have been held in thirty-four states, and now is the time for Republicans to unite behind Governor Romney and take our message of fiscal conservatism and job creation to all voters this fall. I am endorsing Mitt Romney for our Party’s nomination. We face huge challenges, and we need a leader who understands the economy, recognizes more government regulation is not the answer, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism and works to ensure that all Americans have the opportunity to succeed.
As Bush's statement indicates, his endorsement comes at a point in the primary where Republicans, following Romney's win in last night's Illinois primary by a wide margin, may begin to rally around Romney's candidacy. A popular figure within the GOP, Bush had been one of the few major Republicans yet to make an endorsement.
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Fiscal Conservatism?? Who the hell is he trying to kid. Republicans have been reckless, radical and dishonest since they began practicing "Voodoo Economics". They took a balanced budget, a budget surplus and a thriving economy and turned it into the worst economic disaster since the First Great Republican Depression.
You would have to be an imbecile or a Republican to believe this nonsense.
Trust me, they have a lot of people on their side who have drank from the Eternal Well of Koolaid!
Just look at all the Blank Stares in their eyes!
I don't know what koolaid you're drinking...but...you are full of it....I think you are talking out of your a$$....Obama is the one that destroyed this country...and believe me the American people know it....so keep spinning your liberal bs....nobody believes it anymore....
Obama has been in office going on his 4th year...how many damn budgets has he came up with....tell me....none...none...he has increased the debt by 5 trillion dollars.....trillion dollars....
Romney for President.....
Obama....the end of an error...
Johndevine: you haven't a clue what you are talking about. The budget surplus you speak of was during the Clinton years, but was a result of a republican controlled congress. Republicans are responsible for that. Also, the 8 years of GW Bush were years of prosperity and low unemployment levels even after the 9/11 attacks. Bush was forced to run up the national debt, a lot, to ramp up national security and the airlines, and NY city, plus go after Al Qaeda. It wasn't until the last months of 2008 that the mortgage crisis came about and the economy faltered. Obama, in 3 years and 2 months has added more $$$ to the national debt then Bush did in 8 years
Well John keep calling the majority idiots, or your going to alienate more people.
dixie girl- I can usually tell by a person's comment if they are educated or not.
You... are not ! Teabagger ????
JeezusismyDog - The deficits under Bush were clearly going down until the housing market crashed. The surpluses under Clinton were a direct result of the dot com boom and nothing to do with government spending or who was in office. The repeal of Glass-Steagall led to our current situation. Here is the quote from Bill Clinton's book admitting it was a mistake. The Republicans and Democrats both bear responsibility for our current situation. The link below is a very informative non-partisan view of what led to our current situation.
http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-how-big-banks-are-rewriting-the-rules-of-our-economy/
FY04 412,844
FY05 318,617
FY06 248,196
FY07 162,831
@dixie girl - think again!!!! It was George Bush and his republican cronies that got us into a false war in Iraq. George is the one who started borrowing billions of dollars from the Chinese to fund the false war. His company and Cheney's company were illegally assigned (should have been a bid job) to support the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. So the billions borrowed by Bush and his cronies paid their companies who in turn put millions of dollars into their personal accounts. in simpler terms borrow the money so thier companies are insured payment thus insuring they get payment into their personal bank accounts. So in other words George and gang started the huge deficit and made money as thousands of US soldiers gave their life fighting the false war. So in other words they have Chinese "blood money" in their personal accounts. If you have not noticed the economy is getting better despite the republicans trying to put roadblocks up against Obama. Understand what is going on before you make false statements.
@dixie girl - sounds like you are still fighting the civil War. News flash it is over and the North won. so now you can go to school and learn some american history before you go making false claims.
JeezusismyDog - The notion of an unfunded war is only for budget purposes. My numbers are based on what was actually spent and what was actually received. They are taken directly from the Treasury's web site.
http://www.fms.treas.gov/mts/overview.html
Gotta love it, even Jeb Bush surrenders his principles to vote for "Wall Street Bail Out Romney"
GOP 1st,,, Principled Conservatives & Unprincipled Tea Party LAST
OBAMA - BIDEN 2012 ----- TAKING AMERICA FORWARD
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the worst governor our state ever had ,the man who the state supreme court twice shot down his plan to take tax dollars to support private schools. Public money to support private enterprise,the man who gave us the f cat test to judge how public schools performed so that he could take away their funding and give it to private education, it started a boom in new private schools who defrauded the state government of millions until they could be caught. next to him the only worse endorsement romney could get would be his brother, the man who took pres. Clintons tax surplus and instead of lowereing the deficit gave the money back and tripled our deficit team Bush what a joke, to bad the joke is on us!
Well said!
But now we have Gov. TrickyDick Scott that is a known THIEF by stealing taxpayer funds from Medicare /Medicaid to the tune of $2.1 Billion yet the moron Repub/Teabagger electorate in Florida believed his $75 Million dollar worth of adds that he was clean of wrongdoing because he refused 75 times to answer questions (so as not to implicate himself) in front of a grand jury.
Please someone buy my house so I can leave this retarded state of Florida.
And move to Californification or M@ssholeachussets
We are headed for a financial debt crisis no matter who wins the elections in November; our national debt has grown too large, too fast and continues to spiral upward. Corporations know it, which is why they are maintaining huge balance sheets and keeping money on the sidelines instead of investing it by growing their operations in this country. Those with financial assets and have the benefit of good financial advice know it and continue preparations to deal with it, which is why they maintain a conservative posture ready to act as the crisis hits. It is remarkably easy to prepare for a financial crisis when you can see it coming. At this point the only real question is how deep an economic crisis it will be.
Romney is the best prepared in terms of skills and experience to help us deal with the coming debt crisis. That does not mean that there won’t be considerable pain and suffering, even if he can get Congress to go along with the needed tough medicine. But at least we would avoid the catastrophic result of another 4 years of Obamanomics. One of my favorite sayings is fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Should Obama win in November I will hunker down in protective mode and ride out the storm. I will have protected myself and my family. The cries of woe will come from those who put the community organizer in office for another term to bail them out and share some of what I have protected to maintain a comfortable lifestyle. My response will be simple, “no way”. You made your bed and you get to lie in it.
Peter,,,, Just a few problems amigo, you've been getting your information from conservatives..... They are the ones who destroyed our economy & have no policies Americans want
Just hating Obama for nonsense reasons isn't a policy to take America into the 21st century
Americans, not even conservatives want the Romney ideas.... They like their Medicare, Medicade & Social Security ---- Even more, Americans don't want another Middle East War
"One of my favorite sayings is fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me."
That's the one GW Bush forgot while on camera....what a joke!!
Perhaps the most critical measure of our economic health as a country is our total national debt to GDP ratio. An economy hits the danger zone when the ratio exceeds 100%. The following numbers show how Obama’s policies have failed this country.
U.S. Total National Debt to GDP ratio:
1992 – 60% (Bush Sr. last year in office)
2000 – 60% (Clinton last year in office)
2006 – 63% (Last year of Republican Congress)
2008 – 70% (Bush Jr. last year in office)
2009 – 85% (Obama 1st year in office)
2010 – 93% (Obama 2nd year in office)
2011 – 102% (Obama 3rd year in office)
2012 – 105% (estimated to exceed)
Peter17
Cutting and pasting BS info from some Republican based website doesn't show anything. Bush NEVER paid for ANYTHING, he just pushed the bills off into the future for the next president. Why are you Republicans sooooo stupid you refuse to view the overall picture.
BTW- the day before Bush Sr. left office he transferred debt he accumulated onto the national debt, but I never hear you idiots touting that. Or how about your great Ray-Gun that said in his own words that taking the national debt from $800 Billion to 2.3 Trillion during his term was his greatest FAILURE. Oh, but you won't talk about that either.
Peter
Libs can't deal with numbers. No concept. No budget no clue.
colormepurple - since when does government data come from a Republican based website?? I thought Obama was a Democrat.
The Bush name is poison in this nation. Remember -- Bush 41 was voted out of office after 1 term and his little boy 43 left the nation in the worst shape since the depression. This endorsement is worthless.
Well said
I happen to like the name.
Still have his picture up since he is the last President America had.
I still refuse to accept that he was president. He was appointed in 2000 by the Supreme Court to end the Florida debacle and Kerry bowed out of Ohio in 2004 to avoid another such fiasco. He never won a legitimate election.
You mean the Worst president America ever had.
Huge surprise, huh???? Crooks, liars, and cheats tend to hang together....more comfortable that way....
Oh, and Jeb, about that gun legislation you signed into law in 2005 before you left the governorship in FL......yeah, it isn't working out too well for some. Ask Trayvon Martin's parents....
DJ4N6.... your comment describes the Obama administration to a tee...corupt...liars...cheats...mmm...mmm...mmm...
There is going to be a big difference in this election...Obama has a record...a very bad record....it don't look good for all you lefty liberals.....
dixie girl, your name says it all. Follow the yellow TP/Republican road and you will be wearing the burka shortly.
slightlyold.....you must be real old....you don't know anything about me so stfu...
dixie girl, no just slightly old and remember the fight we had to acquire some of our rights and now the fight starts again. Any woman who votes for a TP/Republican votes against daughters, nieces, neighbor, friends and themselves. And the burka is a real future for the women of the United States.
But, also, can't understand why the men aren't standing up for the women in the lives. Do they really want to support and raise a dozen or so kids. With no additional income. Probably not.
As for me shutting up. Not gonna happen. Been loud and demanding since the 60s. Oh, Dixie Girl, 73 is slightly old; old is 103.
The lemming media of today and the stupid talking heads are all soiling their diapers with this news. Who the heck cares about Jeb Bush and particularly about anyone with the Bush name. The media needs to wake up.
NO, screw the media, the "people" need to wake up and take up arms against all these elitist A-Holes.
And what about the elitist Ahole democrats? There are a lot of them.....but they get a pass by you? The media for the most part is totally biased and therefore mere entertainment. I have two homes one in Mid Florida and one in Detroit, I do not go out anywhere in one of these cites with out a weapon. Guess which one.
Jeb? Jeb endorses all kinds of bad stuff.... guns at work, shoot when you're afraid, anything the NRA wants, wtf
Jeb Bush is a lower life form. This X-Scumbag politician has destroyed Florida along with his scumbag Republican counterparts. They have allowed the old Sunshine Laws (that were in place to protect citizens) to be removed so they can sell out the people of Florida behind the scenes without anyone being able to see what the skunks do in the dark of Tallahassee. Only one good place for this scum of society...and he can take Gov. (THIEF) Scott with him.
When is George W. Bush going announce his endorsement?
when some wants it, which is never...
Romney gets a Bush endorsement only one more to go and he wins the trifecta of corrupt American insider government. With an endorsement from the Saudi family he will have practically been adopted by the Bush family.
I think the Saudi family will probably endorse your man Obama...after all he is the only President to bow down to a Saudi....what a freaking idiot we have in the WH...
I remember George W. Bush kissing the King of Saudi Arabia on the lips and then walking away holding hands.
See for yourself;
https://www.google.com/search?q=bush+kisses+saudi+king&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Q6l&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Th5qT6yoLIHKsQLLhNChCQ&ved=0CCoQsAQ&biw=1680&bih=873
Dixie girl, I think you should keep in mind that the Bush family wealth comes from oil and they have a long standing history with the Saudi royal family.
Much about politics is driven by oil these days and we would be a much stronger nation if we could break our addiction to it.
Hey Dixie Girl, In case you missed it DuhBya also bowed to the King AND Kissed his Ring.
You liberals are the biggest liars on earth...disgusting people...
I posted the link with dozens of photos from all over the world showing George W. Bush kissing the King of Saudi Arabia on the lips and then holding hands with him.
You afraid to look little girl?
I will post it again for you.
https://www.google.com/search?q=bush+kisses+saudi+king&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=Q6l&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Th5qT6yoLIHKsQLLhNChCQ&ved=0CCoQsAQ&biw=1680&bih=873
The problem is she is TOO stupid to look at it.
Members of the gop/teabagger party are beyond help.
They think it is 1950.
I never faulted Mr. Obama for the greetings to State officials of any country, its common practice in most country's with monarchies. The apologizing is what I didn't care for I completed two tours of duty in the middle east having met several dignitaries (The military has overseas "homeport" training ) to teach Americans how not to piss off people in that country, they say nothing about apologizing to your guests!
The apologizing thing is a fabrication of the right wing.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/sep/22/mitt-romney/mitt-romney-repeats-claim-obama-went-around-world-/
@dixie girl - Not only is the Bush family in cahoots with Saudia Arabia oil but also remember that Usama Bin Laden was from Saudi Arabia and George Bush Jr. was a business partner with the Bin Laden family for many years. Probably still is but this information is in hush mode. So again before you make false statements get the facts straight. I'm sure if you know how to google on your computer and look up Bush family ties with oil tycoons in the middle east you will find lots of information that will tell it like it is. They are a greedy family and it does not matter to them who they destroy to keep making money off of oil. So open your eyes and ears and try to understand the truth before you make an ass of yourself again.
Where's the Dubya endorsement?????
Oh I get It! - any endorsement from him is the "kiss of death"
and yet his silence tells the world even Republicans think he was a disaster.
Damned if he do, damned if he don't
... and not a MOMENT too soon.
Obama signs executive order allowing for control over all US resources....hey msnbc...where is this story..... don't want to have a story that would hurt Obama...the state controlled media....
you fell for an Internet hoax. LOL!
Thermen Merman...sorry not a hoax....you see your radical left wing media don't report anything that's negative towards the POTUS....he is the worst President ever...a total failure....Barrack Hussein Obama.....mmm....mmm....mmm...
So what do you call the folks who fell for the rhetoric from Obama, the snake oil salesman, retarded?? Considering the incompetence demonstrated by Obama over the past 3 years, no person in their right mind would consider voting for him again.
dixie girl is as ignorant as they come. Got much ed u cation ?
Most of our wealthy elite are Democrats. I assume that they'll vote for Obama as they did in 2008.
The one thing we will hear today is that Mr. Obama is attending a photo op intended to make it look like he was approved the "oil pipeline" Watch for it on the NBC tonight. It makes it look like he has approved the entire pipeline.
@therman merman - dixie girl is a hoax no one can be that stupid, oh wait George Bush Jr. fits the bill.
OMG dixie girl you are total blithering idiot. If you are going to try to post some information on here be sure you can back it up. If you are not able to read please have someone read things for you so you understand things first before you post on here.
I'm more than a little surprised that Jeb would endorse anyone at this point. His name is still in the hat as a possible alternative candidate if this goes to a brokered convention.
I would never vote for him, I'm just saying that he seems to be working against his own best interest here.
Then again Palin is that hat as well. He may just be trying to bail out before she sets it on fire.
Nothing.
Iowa, Jeb is waiting until Obama finishes his second term, then he will hope the people have forgotten about his brother's screwups.
Opposed to soros's "One World Government"?????
Vote comrades soros, van jones and obama OUT!!!!!
Gary, when was soros, van jones elected to office, and what position in the cabinet do they hold? I think you need some cranium/rectual surgery. Ask Murdoch and faux noise for help getting the surgery.
sally, the instant obama took office!!!!!
Soros is pulling obama's strings and
van jones is running obama's ows
the triangle of anti-America progressives!!!
obama pledges were to;
frank marshall davis
and george soros
and prays to saul alinski!!!!!!!!
Don't forget to sign the on line petition to "Fire Holder"!!!!!
Just when I was beginning to warm up to Romney, a Bush screws it up. Will you Bush's please go away?
Jeb Bush is just sucking up to establishment GOP because he wants to be the 2016 presidential nominee.
LOL good luck with that.
I am an independent and had not decided who to vote for. However, Jeb Bush following Donald Trump pretty much does it for me.
The bush-scum has been a blight on American politics -- and the entire world --for decades. The damage these self-described "blue-blood" criminal elitist-scum have made for is almost unimaginable.
And, make no mistake, the stink of kkkarl rover is always lurking in the shadows of the bush-thieves... and you can bet kkkarl-boy gave the nod for the timing of this pathetic endorsement to put jeb's puss in the news.
The whole right-wing fascist "New world Order" plan was first torpedoed by President Clinton knocking out bush-maggot-senior after only one term (and only one war).
And, when these scum fixed the 2000 election (FL), and 2004 election (OH), you see what the fascist GOP delivered... total rapiong of our economy, two unfunded wars to steal energy resources for their constiuency, anf handing huge tax breaks to their upper 1% criminal cohorts...
These samne scum are still trying to push jeb-thief down our throats, and trying to portray him as some sort of GOP-savior... whenm in fact, jeb-bush represents the END OF AMERICA AS WE ONCE KNEW IT!!!
The GOP is not a political party and has not been one since bush-senior sat his stink in the White House as VP to reagan. That point marked the beginning of unprecedented lawlessness, manipuated wars, and a march to literally handing the entire economy over to the upper 1% criminal elite.
What the bush-made, kkarl rover guided GOP is today -- is a wall-street owned and elitist managed TREASONOUS CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE, period.
jeb is just part of the scheme... looking for any small opportunity to get in power.
1965: 'If I Were the Devil' (Warning for a Nation) - Paul Harvey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LJc8Mzg0C-c
Wow, in 1965, Paul Harvey already saw through the Progressives and their plan to destroy the country as we knew it then.
re-electing YOUR marxist incompetent who occupies the White House would mean the end of the American Constitutional Republic.
re-electing YOUR marxist incompetent who occupies the White House would mean the end of the American Constitutional Republic.
No Larry -- this nation has survived people like George W. Bush and Richard Nixon and we will continue after January 20, 2017 when President Obama leaves office. I remember you right wing fanatics saying the same thing about Kennedy, LBJ, Ford, Carter, and Clinton. Your unending gloom and doom has never been close to coming true. The sky is not falling.
One idiot endorsing one other idiot equals two idiots.
Oh Wow, that surely should help Mitt.
Jeb can fix the election results for him.