Jeb Bush To GOP: Don't Attack Obama

In an interview with the LA Times, President Bush's brother Jeb explained why he isn't running for Senate and asked Republicans to go easy on the new president:

Still, the former governor said he would continue to advocate for conservative ideas, and he offered a bit of advice to fellow Republicans: Don't target the new president with the same kind of partisan attacks that he said Democrats had hurled unfairly at his brother -- attacks that he summed up as "Bush-hating."

"The opposition should be about ideas, and not what my brother suffered through in the last eight years," he said. "I don't wish that on President Obama."

Bush said he had been impressed so far with Obama's appointments and called the president-elect someone who is "smart, disciplined, not rash."

On Sunday, former President H. W. Bush said that he hoped Jeb would run for Senate in Florida and one day, for president. The younger Bush son announced on Tuesday that he would not run. He said his decision wasn't based on politics, but on his "personal journey."

Comments

[FaceYourFears]

Don't attack Obama.....he's one of us.

[ProudNeoCon]

Read comments on this post. A lot of people have so much venom that they can not accept anything nice about anyone named Bush... Pathetic...

[miamia]

Bush took our surplus and turned it into a depression.

And he took the nations good will and his 90% approval rating and turned it into venom.

That's his fault.

It's called personal responsibility.

You like to throw that word around, well now he gets to eat it.

[GingerB]

Barney seems like a good dog. There, are you happy now?

[SurrealPumpkin]

After 8 years with JEB! as my governor I can tell you, he's earned the venom.

[GingerB]

ProudNeoCon, what exactly are you proud of?

[tomk2434]

the bush family looks at the american people, sees sheep, and thinks "lambchops"

so yeah its hard to say much nice about them.

[Hamatreya]

Yeah, Jeb,
Mel Carnahan.
Paul Wellstone.
The World Trade Center.
Shock and Awe.
We've got you covered.
The Bushes are disgusting.
What was that reporter's name, the one who died in the Anthrax attacks, the one who published the photos of the Bush twins rolling on a bar floor, under age and drunk?
These billionaires are getting another free ride. Just like WW1,WW11, The S&L Scam, The Crack Epidemic.... 911, Iraq, The Economic Collapse, The Bailout. It never ends.
You want to invade someone? Invade Switzerland, Invade Grand Cayman, the UAE, Invade Exxon and Halliburton and the Carlyle Group. You'll find out where the money went.
I just wonder if they stole nukes.

[BreakfastatTiffanys1]

"Bush-hating"

OMG!

[Nyla785]

Why don't these Bushes just go away and count their money.

[zoozey]

These Repubs are the most "victimized" whiny a$$es I have ever seen. First it is Ann Coulter and the poor little pity party on herself over NBC, then there is Rush ALWAYS whining, then there is Coulter with her violins out over the likes of Tom Delay and Joe McCarthy, of all people. It is always about THEM. They are so much like the schoolyard bullies who crumble like little girls when they, themselves are backed into a corner.

"Smart, disciplines, not rash"--that is how Jeb described Obama. Yes, Jeb--the absolute POLAR opposite of your poor suffering, arrogant, ignorant, obstinate, petulent, self-serving brother. And we are supposed to feel sorry for HIM!!!

Kiss my a$$, bushes!

[bujeeboo]

Jeb, your stupid brother deserved everything he got and if it were up to me, you would be sending him letters in prison for the rest of his unholy existence.

[skyeapril]

Amen!!

[joycehelene]

Jeb is not as stubborn or as stupid as his older brother, but the whole family should just leave and go far far away.

[stephanemot]

the latest Bush Legacy Revisionist mantra : making a martyr out of Dubya
the poor lad suffered - nevermind the 1M+ casualties caused by his crusade
http://e-blogules.blogspot.com/2008/12/bush-legacy.html

[Ourrias]

Hey, Jeb:

You might fire off a private e-mail to Ann Coulter on the don't-attack-Obama thing.

She obviously didn't get the memo.

[schatsie]

Bull stuff, just like Papa Bush said to Saddam not to invade Kuwait ((wink wink, don't listen to what we say)))

[zendem1]

I wish he'd take a personal journey off a very tall bridge.

[learnsomething]

"The opposition should be about ideas, and not what my brother suffered through in the last eight years,"

WTF! Jeb Bush must be smoking something.

[AliMB]

What Gov. Bush is saying is true... "Don't target the new president with the same kind of partisan attacks that he said Democrats had hurled unfairly at his brother" BDS (as was popularly coined) is very common (go through any Bush related thread on this website for evidence), and i didn't find it conducive to a productive discussion or policy, as it won't be productive when extreme cases of ODS breakout. I am also curious to know what was the real reason is for not competing for the senate seat that will be left by Sen. Martinez; Gov. Bush is very popular in Florida, leaving office in 2007 with over 60% in approval (even with his brother tanking in the polls). He would have been a shoe in

[zendem1]

Because he's been advised to wait. If things work out, he'll be on the ticket in 08.

[Lobo72]

We just had an election in '08. Pull your head out.

[Cesaria]

I think Jeb realizes that the harder they hit at Obama, it's the Republican Party who actually suffers.