In new book, “JEB: America’s Next Bush”, author states, “Jeb Bush is going to hate this book.”

[seafan]

Book lambastes Jeb, predicted presidential bid


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By Bill Cotterell
February 12, 2007

TALLAHASSEE — “Jeb Bush is going to hate this book.”

That’s the opening salvo in a 370-page broadside by a veteran journalist who is convinced that Florida’s most famous ex-governor wants to be president. In “JEB: America’s Next Bush,” reporter Shirish Date advances a plausible-on-paper scenario for Florida’s 43rd governor to run for the nation’s highest elective office.
Date writes the run could happen even as soon as next year, despite Bush’s repeated denials of national ambition.

“Given his personality, given his sense of mission, given that his father and his clearly less-qualified brother have both accomplished this, it’s hard to imagine Jeb not running for president,” Date writes.
Although his surname is tattered by his older brother’s low approval ratings, both Bushes remain popular with the party loyalists who vote in GOP primaries. And Date reasons that, at 54, Jeb Bush is too young and ambitious to languish in commercial real estate boardrooms and policy-wonk think tanks around Miami for long. Bush left the Governor’s Mansion in January at the term-limited end of eight years as Florida’s chief executive.

“For Jeb, the biggest factor that will push him into a presidential campaign will be his own boredom,” Date writes.

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Date makes no secret of his disdain for Bush’s conservative policies. In “JEB,” he accurately recounts the impact of Bush’s tax cuts, his dismantling of affirmative action, his cavalier attitude toward public records and open meetings, school tuition-voucher plans and other landmarks of the administration.

But his narrative also is marked by ventures into less strictly objective areas, such as calling Bush “not only a liar, but an accomplished one” and describing him as “a tall, mean guy with a giant head and twitching nose hairs.”
Date said in an interview he doesn’t dislike Bush. He just thinks winning outweighs fair play in the autocratic chief executive’s “bred to rule” approach to government. Bush did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.

Gov. Charlie Crist might be a hindrance to any future political ambitions Bush harbors, Date said.

“Charlie can be an absolute menace to Jeb’s future,” Date said.

[htuttle]

1. "a tall, mean guy with a giant head and twitching nose hairs."

Bullseye!

[peekaloo]

3. sounds like an evil manatee.

:rofl:

[AndyA]

2. NO F*CKING WAY, JEB!

That’s the opening salvo in a 370-page broadside by a veteran journalist who is convinced that Florida’s most famous ex-governor wants to be president.

We have had ENOUGH of the Bush Crime Family™ thank you very much.

Your ancestors provided assistance to Hitler.

Your Father furthered Reagan's assault on the Constitution.

Your Brother Neil is a crook (Silverado Savings).

Your Brother George is a lunatic who has done more harm to this country than Osama bin Laden.

NO MORE BUSHES - STOP SUCKING THE PUBLIC TIT AND GO AWAY!

Fortunately, I think George has ruined any chance of Jeb becoming pResident, I think Americans will turn away from this family in the future, especially when the stink from GWB's White House escapades hit the media.

[liberalhistorian]

9. The whole family's "entitlement mentality", where they

believe they are entitled to rule, indeed, even have a divine right to it, is truly sickening and has done far more harm to this country than can even be imagined. "Bred to rule" mentality pretty much sums it up.

[UTUSN]

4. Will my nightmare never end. n/t

[durrrty libby]

6. That is what I was thinking only it sounded more like this...

Fuckin A...What a God Damn nightmare,

Will it ever end?

[William Bloode]

5. Never happen.

G-dub has done ruined it for any other Bush........i hope.

[tsuki]

7. I'll hit the pavement on this one, and even talk to Republics. n/t

[JacksonWest]

8. Wow. A bold prediction.

Too bad he's not going to run. It would be suicide.

[Sperk]

10. I predict that they're going to sneek him in through the VP slot....watch out

Romney, you are lying down with dogs! The really evil, rabid kind.

The Bushes MUST maintain control of the WH, they have way too many secrets hidden there.

[WinkyDink]

11. How porcine.

[HughBeaumont]

12. JUST like the sign says . . .

AND WE MEAN it, REPUKES!!

Fooled you once, shame on them.
Fooled you twice, shame on you.
Fooled you thrice, well, you're just a fucking dumbass that needs a lobotomy and voting rights revoked.

[WI_DEM]

13. I thought after Poppy there would be no more Bush's and I was wrong

let's hope this country has finally learned its lesson.