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Subscribe to RSSFormer Florida Governor Jeb Bush said the 2012 election would have been a good time for him to run politically, but he personally is not ready to have made a run for office.
TAMPA, Fla. – Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Sunday that he’s “not motivated” to seek the White House and follow in the footsteps of his presidential brother and father.
Bush, whom many Republicans had implored to run for president this year, acknowledged on “Meet the Press” that 2012 would have offered a prime opportunity for him to seek the Republican presidential nomination.
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But Bush, who had been scheduled to speak here on Monday night of the Republican National Convention before weather forced the cancelation of that day’s activities, would not rule out a future run for president, though he did not seem eager to do so.
“I don't think about it. I'm not motivated by it. It takes an incredible amount of discipline and ambition,” Bush told moderator David Gregory.
“I'm not there yet in my life,” the former Florida governor added.
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Jeb Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush, served as president of the United States from 1989-1993, and his brother, George W. Bush, served as president from 2001-2009.
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Jeb will never be close to the White House. Remember he's the guy who fixed the Florida polls so "dummy" Bush George could win the election. He's one of the biggest fat slobs ever to think he can ammount to anything now. He can always get a job cleaning toilets.
I'm a Republican and I would vote for the Devil before I'd vote for Jeb Bush. Enough Bush's already. Jesus H. Christ....can't we find anyone better?
Wow..great research @EEngineer..kudos on your comment!!!
Well Jeb says Obama's policies have failed. What is certainly evident is that the Obama Administrations policies saved the WORLD and the U S A from the TRULY FAILED POLICIES of 8 Years of G W BUSH and the REPUBLICAN CARTEL.
How any REPUBLICAN can stand up and say that the OBAMA ADMINISTRATION policies have failed is ABSOLUTE INSANITY. Any REPUBLICAN who makes such a statement MUST BE VEIWED AS MENTALY INCOMPETENT!
Thank you OBAMA ADMINISTRATION for saving our country from the FINANCIAL, ECONOMIC DISASTER that the REPUBLICAN CARTEL STEERED our COUNTRY and the WORLD into!
Saved the world? Wow! Can I get some of what you are taking?
the bushes have done a lot of damage to this country.
Another Bush in the WH? Not only do I not think so. I KNOW it will NEVER happen.
Three wars and countless thousands killed while the last two Bushies were in charge...not to mention the trillions in debt they rang up when deficits didn't matter....no thanks we're already too bushed for more
The country is in bad enough shape without another lousy Bush in the white house. That's all we need, it would be a new apocaypse.
Ahhh Heck NO!
The last thing this country needs is another Bush in the White House.
H.W. was a mediocre president who would be a foot note in history if not for the first gulf war. Overall I'd rate him as doing no harm and no good for the country. He maintained the status quo and that was about it.
W. was the destroyer of worlds as far as I'm concerned. He spent all of his politically capital gained from 9/11 to settle a personal vendetta in Iraq, destroyed our economy and made enemies of many of our allies over seas.
I'm still not sure that Jeb didn't have anything to do with the 2000 election fiasco in Florida that led to W. being anointed by the Supreme Court, even though he lost the popular vote. All hail king George.
We have gotten wise to your dad’s “Kinder Gentler Nation” and your brother’s “Compassionate Conservatism”. Read my lips, "Just go away".
Jeb is just bidding his time until 2016....
He also hoping the "Far Right Crazies" his brother and his brothers brain "Turd Blossom" stirred up will crawl back into the holes they came out of.....
Jeb Bush made the comment that, Barack Obama should stop blaming his brother, "Dubya" for today's economic climate. Okay...let's evaluate! Has America regained yet, all the billions he wasted on two senseless wars that have netted this nation absolutely NOTHING? Has she rebounded from having surplus money and then going straight into this nation's greatest recession EVER!? Has America recovered yet from the de-regulation of Wall St? Has the American economy bounced back yet from the millions of foreclosures that occurred during his watch; a complete housing market crash? Have this country's brave veterans healed yet from the loss of life and limb that they suffered for NO GOOD REASON other than the GREAT LIE that Dubya and Chinface decided to tell about WMD that were never found because they never existed? Have the American workers gotten back their jobs and careers yet that he and other ReSuckicans sold or gave to China (for other favors) and other nations elsewhere overseas? Dubya even sold some of America's sea ports, and DAMN!!! How does America recover from that one?
When these questions can be answered in the affirmative...then and only then, will it be time to stop blaming Dubya!
Right on? right on...