Jeb Who?
I don't think "Bush Fatigue" even begins to describe it. Maybe "Bush Capitulation."
It was George W. Bush vs. the republic, and we lost. But that's another story. My guess is that this Bush is counting on the fact that by the time he runs for Mel Martinez' seat in 2010, the American public, with its notoriously pigeon-sized memory, will have forgotten that most of its ills occurred during his brother's watch.
By then, we'll be blaming Barack Obama, either for causing our problems or for not fixing them quickly enough. There will be enough voters looking back with nostalgia at the Bush years to put old Jeb over the top.
Until then, it's just "Jeb."
CHAN LOWE has been the Sun Sentinel’s first and only editorial cartoonist for the past twenty-six years. Before that, he worked as cartoonist and writer for the Oklahoma City Times and the Shawnee (OK) News-Star.
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The real problem is that I registered republican just so I could vote against the most moronic candidates in the primary, but it always seems as though when a Bush is running in Florida that some sort of deal gets done and there is no primary opposition.
Posted by: Tom | December 5, 2008 8:07 PM
Oh, God...please, not Jeb again...
Posted by: Painkiller Jeff | December 5, 2008 11:34 PM
If I hear more about Jeb being a "wonderful Governor"!!! Right, as long as you don't believe in public schools and do believe in privatizing our entire government. The only thing better about Jeb than his brother is that he would have not allowed Cheney and Rumsfield to control our foreign policy.
Posted by: peanut | December 7, 2008 6:30 PM
Jeb's whole reason for being on this earth seems to be to get rid of public education and let the privates teach everyone. That's because the market always take care of itself and private business is always more efficient than government. Like the banking industry. Or the auto companies.
Posted by: Andrew | December 10, 2008 8:18 AM