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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Two Thoughts About Jeb Bush Endorsing Mitt Romney

Posted by on Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 12:32 PM

So here's Jeb Bush's statement from earlier this morning:

Congratulations to Governor Mitt Romney on his win last night and to all the candidates for a hard fought, thoughtful debate and primary season. Primary elections have been held in thirty-four states, and now is the time for Republicans to unite behind Governor Romney and take our message of fiscal conservatism and job creation to all voters this fall. I am endorsing Mitt Romney for our Party’s nomination. We face huge challenges, and we need a leader who understands the economy, recognizes more government regulation is not the answer, believes in entrepreneurial capitalism and works to ensure that all Americans have the opportunity to succeed.

A few thoughts:

1. That's pretty bold of Jeb, already his party's frontrunner for the 2016 nomination, to endorse his party's frontrunner after a big win. Perhaps he'll endorse gravity next. "It's the easiest way to keep stuff from floating off the planet and into outer space!"

2. This is another case of shitty timing for the Romney campaign. If Jeb Bush had endorsed Romney a couple weeks ago, nobody would be referring to him as a huge supporter of Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law. The minute a reporter gets access to Mitt Romney—and it could be weeks from now, the way the Romney campaign has been protecting their candidate from press availabilities, but still—I expect him or her to immediately ask Romney for his stance on "Stand Your Ground." Gun-owners in upcoming primary states like Louisiana and Pennsylvania will be very eager to hear what Romney says, and in a few months, independents will be very interested to hear his answer, too.

 

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Fifty-Two-Eighty 1
Where does he stand? That's an easy one. Wherever the NRA tells him to stand.
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty http://www.nra.org on March 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM
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I hate how far people are willing to go to avoid offending people not worth bothering with in the first place. As regards the gender of said reporter, a simple "him" would have sufficed just as well as a "her" rather than "him or her."
Posted by Central Scrutinizer on March 21, 2012 at 1:00 PM
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Gravity is just a THEORY, you silly! So of course the Jebster won't be endorsing it. It's a short slippery slope from gravity to evolution to godless communism, you know.
Posted by Daddy Todd on March 21, 2012 at 3:29 PM
Free Lunch 4
Wait - Jeb Bush is the best thing they've got for 2016? Elizabeth Warren will mop the floor with him.
Posted by Free Lunch on March 21, 2012 at 6:16 PM

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