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HAMILTON, OH -- In his first public campaign appearance for Mitt Romney, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush did not shy away from attacking President Obama, and advanced the presumptive GOP nominee's messaging this week.
“There are a lot of positive reasons to support Mitt Romney but I want to give you a reason that it is important: because the current president of the United States doesn’t get it,” Bush told the crowd inside United Performance Metals. The president “said in Virginia: “If you got a business, you didn’t build that, somebody else made it happen.” Now that was kind of like saying the private sector is doing good but its the economy that is doing bad. These are insights into the thinking of a man who has had no practical experience in creating jobs.”
Campaigning in the battleground state of Ohio Wednesday just hours before Mitt Romney himself appears in the state, Bush said it is Obama who has created “a morass” and “a dark cloud over our country” that only Romney can help improve.
“I am so tired of the president of United States –- with the awesome seal he gets to go around with -– pointing, trying to create divisions. Trying to punish people rhetorically for the hard work that will restore American’s greatness,” he said.
Bush’s comments come amid a week in which the tone of the presidential campaign has taken a more divisive tone, with harsh words being exchanged between the Obama and Romney campaigns.
Echoing Romney’s comments just yesterday, when the former Massachusetts governor accused Obama of cronyism, Bush called for an end of policies that allow for failed loans that aid companies, like Solyndra.
“Crony capitalism needs to be rejected and eliminated in our country and what we need to do is restore entrepreneurial capitalism where government plays a role but it is a limiting role. And where we celebrate success rather than punishing it,” he said.
Bush, whose name was once included as a possible vice presidential pick for Romney, shed no direct insight on any VP speculation but did predict that two states are vital to the November election:
“There are two states that actually matter a little bit more -– my beloved state of Florida, which is like the purplest of all the states in this election and Ohio. If we do our part in Florida and you do your part in Ohio, I believe Mitt Romney will be the next president of the United States and the restoration of America’s greatness will begin.”
Gov. Bush, a member of the prominent political Bush family, kicked off his speech giving a “Bush family update” to the couple hundred person crowd. The 43rd Governor of Florida said his parents -- former President George H. W. Bush and former first lady Barbara Bush -- and his older brother -- former President George W. Bush -- are doing “pretty good.”
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I wonder why the Romney camp thinks that Jeb Bush appearing in Ohio will actually help him.
Perhaps it's because he's not Mitt Romney, but still, with the George W. baggage and all, voters everywhere are not going to see Jeb as a plus for responsible economic growth.
Not to mention the voter fraud allegations in Florida when Jeb was governor and "W" was running for president--that should be helpful too!
"We have met the enemy and he is us!" Pogo by Walt Kelly
Jeb's credibility issues begin with his family name and end with his incoherent message. With friends like this, who needs enemies?
NolimitSoldier, as the Spankster would say"ComeOn Man", whatsmatter, you No likey what Chicken George did to the Economy, that Americans(and the World)is stuck with.
Malibu Mitt could score some Points about Saving JOBS, if Only he would use His "Crony Capitalism" sources, & step in & Save about 176 Jobs in FREEPORT,Illionois.Mitts Baby, Bain Capital is Only 4 short months away from closing down this facility& sending these JOBS to COMMUNIST China! Why is that Happening? It's because the Business is NOT Profitable enuff(even thier making $$$)!
With all these JOBS going overseas(mainly Communist China), How much longer before the English language is Gone & we're all speaking Chinese & Mandarin?
ComeOn Man, StepUp Mitt, Show America how Beautiful America really IS !
You Betcha!
Occupy SoggyBottom!
No Limit Soldier-
We can't quit talking about GW Bush until the big gaping wound he left in the economy has had time to heal. Eight years of damage can't be cured in a little over three years.
Republicans still talk about Reagan and Carter, we get to talk about Clinton and "W".
Mitt's gotta be careful using various surrogates, eventually he'll find a good one and the GOP will wonder why they aren't going to nominate them instead of Romney.
Maybe that's why they have been even more inept than Romney, he doesn't look quite so bad by comparison.
The essence of this election will be that, barring the unforeseen, the GOP will present Romney, a rather colorless individual. He is probably a decent man. He has been lied about continuously by his opponent, but that was to be expected, especially when a man the senior living Democrat characterized as a Chicago thug is his opponent. But Romney, in a fair election would probably win. This is because most consider Obama untrustworthy, unpatriotic and pretty much a liar. He is either incompetent in matters of the economy and foreign relations or else he is deliberately trying to wreck the United States. I suspect many Democrats are kind of working for Obama and giving his candidacy lip service, but will vote against him. He hopefully will lose. Many will vote for Romney to be rid of Obama, not because they think Romney will be either super or a miracle worker.
For the record and from the record, the Bain charge against Mitt is not true. Two liberal papers, the New York Times and the Washington Post admit Romney was gone from Bain when he said he was gone. What are the motives of those who continue to repeat this outright lie? Maybe to mask their advocates failures? Maybe to keep the debate on a Goebbels-like basis, the 'Big Lie'.
Why do pollsters disagree so much?
There is certainly some disagreement – even in final polls just before an election, but when you average all of the polls, you tend to get a better overall picture – probably because you are then greatly enlarging the size of the 'sample', thus minimizing the 'margin of error'.
One of the best sources in this regard is Realclearpolitics.com, which is an 'average of the polls'. Their accuracy over the last two Presidential Elections (2004 and 2008) has been quite good – beating all of the major pollsters, although they do have a slight Democratic bias (1.4% in 2004 and .35% in 2008).
One caveat that needs to be made with regard to Realclearpolitics.com, however, is that in the process of averaging polls, they 'mix apples and oranges' to some extent, which distorts reality – For example, they may combine some polls of 'All Adults' with polls of 'Registered Voters', and other polls of 'Likely Voters'. This can result in significant errors when estimating an upcoming election because Pollsters recognize that polls of 'All Adults' are typically biased towards Democrats by about 7% (when compared with actual election results), and polls of 'Registered Voters' are also biased in favor of Democrats, but with a smaller margin of about 4% (see link below for an explanation). All major pollsters recognize that polls of 'Likely Voters' are the best indicator of election results, but most of them don't switch to 'Likely Voters' until about a month before the elections – to avoid an embarrassing result when their final poll is compared to actual results..
If you look at the poll average issued daily by Realclearpolitics and make the adjustments for 'Adults' and 'Registered Voters', you actually will find an amazing consistency among pollsters. For example, on July 17, 2012, the Realclearpolitics' average of 'Likely Voters' polls shows Romney with a 2% lead, and if you 'adjust' the polls of 'Adults' and 'Registered Voters' for the average bias in those polls, they would also show Romney with about a 2% lead over Obama, even though their overall average favors Obama by about 2% because of the 'Adult' and 'Registered Voters' mix.
Of course, these polls change constantly, and we'll get a much clearer picture as the election approaches.
http://www.polimerican.com/adults-vs-registered-vs-likely-voters/
One last point for those who want to make a 'guess' as to the favorite at any point in time is the 'adjustment' for 'Undecided Voters', which most pollsters say are about 7% of the electorate at this point in time. Studies have shown that when there is an Incumbent running for election, most of them 'break for the challenger' by anywhere from 65% to 85% (see link below)- typically they are 'Undecided' because of dissatisfaction with the Incumbent, but just haven't made that final commitment to vote against them. If this holds true in 2012, then that could add anywhere from 2% to 5% to Romney's total . At this point in time, it appears that Obama could be in serious trouble.
http://www.mysterypollster.com/main/2004/10/the_incumbent_r.html
Hey, I see the retard's little brother is helping Mitten's out.....
The only baggage left at the WH is obama. obama's baggage is his message and his associates...Bill Ayers, Rev. Wright, George Sorros (a very rich man who obama claims if you are rich... you are evil and that the Government made you rich) nancy pelosi, barbara boxer, acorn, solayndra, trillion dollar stimulas to nowhere, 15 tillion deficit which he increased by 6 trillion, screw oil and coal...we are going green at the expense of high energy costs, high gas prices, high unemployement which is even higher if you include those working are underemployed, part time employees, "I am on welfare now, so I am not counted in the unemployement numbers, 85,000 new disability recipients, Do I need to go on. thank you liberals for all of the above.
Jeb Bush is married to a hispanic. Isn't it hypocritical to block hispanic and Black votes?
Jeb Bush -- Man, you are telling that lie from FAUX Noise too? So I guess McCain is it, the only Republican with some intellectual honesty. Wow, sad.
tom343 -- Since you say so, it must be true -- NOT. I guess you tune in exclusively to FAUX Noise too? You and the other delusional rightwingers trolling in here...
Here is a great piece on the rightwing hypocrisy, and lies they are trying to tell:
And the "strategery" of digging up old nontoversies used back in 2008 not only won't work on a sitting president (who is clearly vetted and well known), but won't work on a president the people like. Keep up the great job Brownie, er uh Romney.
Glad Jeb got all his talking points straight - whether or not they're actually factual.
Ursula, he learned that from his brother's administration - if you repeat lies often enough, sheeple will think they are facts - i.e. Saddam was involved in 9/11, he has weapons of mass destruction, "Mission Accomplished", we don't need warrants to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens, etc.
FirstRead this line of attack is taken out of context...normally you like to be sure that is part of the reporting on Team Obama attacks...but the glee that Jeb is coming to Romney's side, you forgot you have a job you need to
pretenddo! It's still BAIN and Tax returns...I cant believe people might vote for a guy that thinks there are 57 states in this country......
Can't find anything else? I'd rather vote for a guy who made just one slip and not for a guy who is holding out on his taxes.
OMD
It is still the economy. It is still an average unemployment rate of 9.1%. It is still an average increase of Federal Debt of $4.1 Billion EVERY DAY!!!
Team Obama can try to deflect to inaccurate statements about Bain, when Romney left Bain, and tax returns, but when people vote on the state of the economy.
The surrogates act like they're not sure how to act when stumping for Romney. On president Obama everyone will remember the president is inclusive in his dealings for all American's. He froze White House pay scales on his first day and worked with last Congress to pass the PPACA.(Health Care Act) This is his signature issue with the Supreme Courts blessing. Obama began phasing out unnecessary and outdated weapons systems. Obama signed the Stimulus Act saving jobs in America and the TARP act which saved banks and the banking system. President Obama oversaw the bailing out of the American auto industry saving millions of jobs. He signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act, which was designed to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive credit card practices. He pushed through and got passed Dodd-Frank, one of the largest and most comprehensive Wall Street reforms since the Great Depression. An impressive list of terrorists no longer pose a threat to the security of the American people because President Obama actually focused on the war on terror utilizing drone aircraft taking out over fifty including Bin Ladin. And don’t forget that America helped Libyans take out brutal dictator and terror supporter Muammar Gadaffi on President Obama’s watch.
The surrogates act like they're not sure how to act when stumping for Romney. On president Obama everyone will remember the president is inclusive in his dealings for all American's.
He froze White House pay scales on his first day and worked with last Congress to pass the PPACA.(Health Care Act) This is his signature issue with the Supreme Courts blessing. Obama began phasing out unnecessary and outdated weapons systems. Obama signed the Stimulus Act saving jobs in America and the TARP act which saved banks and the banking system. President Obama oversaw the bailing out of the American auto industry saving millions of jobs.
He signed the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act, which was designed to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive credit card practices. He pushed through and got passed Dodd-Frank, one of the largest and most comprehensive Wall Street reforms since the Great Depression.
An impressive list of terrorists no longer pose a threat to the security of the American people because President Obama actually focused on the war on terror utilizing drone aircraft taking out over fifty including Bin Ladin. And don’t forget that America helped Libyans take out brutal dictator and terror supporter Muammar Gadaffi on President Obama’s watch.
Let's see, we're supposed to listen to a guy who a) organized 'traffic stops' in poor neighborhoods in 2000 and made sure that 'those people' were unable to vote, and b) supposedly wasn't responsible for polls closing three hours early in districts where Janet Reno was supposed to do well. Plus, he stands for the policies of his brother George W. Bush, who really _was— responsible for the crash of 2008, and _not— President Obama (even though those who watch Fox News may have heard differently).
Oh, yeah, and what about selling those junk bonds to school districts? Nice guy, that Jeb.
President Obama created the "morass"? Talk about amnesia. Jebbie's real point is that the President hasn't fixed his party's screw ups fast enough. Romney and the Repubs can't even acknowledge their mistakes, so why would anyone believe they have any solutions?
Mitt Romney is a tax evader! Also, what jobs has he created? What happened to the 2010 jobs the republicans promised? I feel better sticking with President Obama. Atleast I know who he is but Mitt Romney and his friends seem a lot more dangerous to me than the Koch brothers, Murdoch, Adelson etcx. Also just ask the folks in Illinois who will be losing their jobs in Nov. because of Bain once again sending jobs to China. No Mitt, not you.
If I were Romney I would tell anyone from the Bush crime family to not bother. It might just be suicide for a candidate when people realize he has Bush crime family support.
Willard is a real American? Draft dodger, dog hater, Vulture Capitalist, and possible tax evader. True wealthy American, right.
The present Republican Party is a cabal of hypocrites , thinly disguised racists, supporters of plutocracy funded by Wall St , with extreme right-wing fascist leanings , and they are determined to reduce our once glorious democracy into a nation of the super rich and their surrogates ( the 5% ers ) being served at minimum wage by we the many. Sad ! If we elect them to office it will be a reflection of our political ignorance, disregard for our children's future, loss of our reputation as gaurdian of freedom throughout the world and the re-emerging of the principle of rule by 'divine right' of the rich and powerful. Maybe it is God's plan for them to succeed--it takes total decline of moral direction to engender another American Revolution. This Texas Independent is voting a straight Democrat ticket in November.
Another bad move by the romney camp because why would you want to be around a person who's brother put tne economy in the toilet(bush jr) and help him win florida with voter fraud in 2004? This is purely a desperate move and showns how clueless the republicans are.
"Bush carries Romney's message in swing state Ohio"
Wow, talk about carrying a light load!
MittWitt is so out of touch he doesn't have a clue. And Bush campaigning for Mittens, is like Goofy campaigning for Daffy Duck. When is this circus going to end, if that is the best the Republicans can do, I think their future as a viable political party is in serious jeopardy. I have never voted a straight ticket in fifty years of voting, but this year very well may be a first.