Yeah right – that’s what the country wants, another Bush in the White House because the first two worked out so beautifully. The first one was a lying, one term failed president and the second one barely won in 2000 and 2004 and was so ineffectual he paved the way for Barack Obama. Dream on! Not only no, but HELL NO! This is not a monarchy as a commenter wrote.
by Jamie Weinstein
George P. Bush told The Daily Caller on Wednesday that although he wishes his father, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, would enter the 2012 race for the White House, he doesn’t count him out as a future presidential contender.
“I think that time will only continue to benefit not only my uncle’s record [former President George W. Bush], but my dad’s opportunity to run for higher office,” the younger Bush said, while answering whether the notion of “Bush fatigue” has weighed heavily on his father’s electoral considerations. “Make no mistake about it, I think a lot of people sorely miss and would relish some sort of return of that type of approach to leading our country.”
“It’s not do or die in this cycle by any means,” Bush added. “My dad’s a young guy.”
Bush did suggest, however, that the immediate perception of his uncle after he left the White House may have hindered his father’s short-term electoral options.
“For better or for worse, they share the same name, they share the same blood, and kinship, and therefore it’s just difficult,” he said.
George P. Bush himself is widely seen as the heir to his family’s vaunted political legacy. He told TheDC that, having recently returned to Texas from a tour of Afghanistan as an intelligence officer in the Navy Reserves, he is focused first on building his family and his career in real estate.
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