Jeb says that George W. Bush is on of his main Middle East advisors

[Gass3268]

"What you need to know is that who I listen to when I need advice on the Middle East is George W. Bush."

This is not going to help him distance himself from his brother.

[NHI]

oh good lord. Hardly his own man...

[Lief 🗽]

LOL

This guy's really going off the deep end, isn't he? What a shambles.

[Stranger in a strange land]

ROFLMAO!!!

[Bull Moose Base]

Won't hurt him in the primary.

[xavier110]

Won't hurt him in the primary.

Can you imagine the gen. election ad, though...

[bobloblaw]

This guy is such a moron, it is incredible. The GOP deserves a through thrashing if Jeb is the nominee

[bobloblaw]

Won't hurt him in the primary.

Yeah it will. GOPers are smart enough to not want to neutralize Clinton's weaknesses.

[ElectionsGuy]

Good lord, if the GOP nominates Bush, they deserved to be officially named the stupid party.

[King]

RIP Jeb

[CountryClassSF]

A plus in my book. 

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

"What you need to know is that who I listen to when I need advice on the Middle East is George W. Bush."

This is not going to help him distance himself from his brother.

Perhaps, with Obama's growing list of failures (Iraq, Libya, Yemen, and arguably Syria and Egypt, too), he's going to decide that since he can't shake his brother and his last name, he might as well embrace them, at least on the foreign policy front.

"My brother won in Iraq and Afghanistan, Obama and Hillary Clinton lost them."
"When my brother was in charge, the only thing that overthrew Arab regimes was US."
"Syria, Libya, and Yemen weren't havens for Al Qaeda when my brother was president."
"When a Bush is president, we win wars in the Middle East."

And more along those lines, though not with that exact phrasing, obviously. Not that I agree, but the seed of the argument is there. And it would only get better if Iran were to pull out of talks and detonate a demonstration nuke before the election.

[Ebsy]

This is campaign ending. No Democrat or independent is going to vote for a third term for George W. Bush.

[CountryClassSF]

This is campaign ending. No Democrat or independent is going to vote for a third term for George W. Bush.

"Currently, 84% of Republicans, 46% of independents, and 24% of Democrats have a favorable view of Bush, each up more than 10 points since 2009. However, the more recent improvement in his ratings, a five-point overall uptick since November 2010, has been more apparent among Democrats, whose rating has increased by 10 points since then."

http://www.mediaite.com/online/poll-americans-now-kinda-okay-with-george-w-bush/

[Sumner 1868]

This is campaign ending. No Democrat or independent is going to vote for a third term for George W. Bush.

"Currently, 84% of Republicans, 46% of independents, and 24% of Democrats have a favorable view of Bush, each up more than 10 points since 2009. However, the more recent improvement in his ratings, a five-point overall uptick since November 2010, has been more apparent among Democrats, whose rating has increased by 10 points since then."

http://www.mediaite.com/online/poll-americans-now-kinda-okay-with-george-w-bush/

Carter's favorability ratings rose very well in the Reagan years, but no Democrat wanted to be associated with his administration irregardless, because forgiving isn't forgetting. Same thing with Bush.

[Ebsy]

This is campaign ending. No Democrat or independent is going to vote for a third term for George W. Bush.

"Currently, 84% of Republicans, 46% of independents, and 24% of Democrats have a favorable view of Bush, each up more than 10 points since 2009. However, the more recent improvement in his ratings, a five-point overall uptick since November 2010, has been more apparent among Democrats, whose rating has increased by 10 points since then."

http://www.mediaite.com/online/poll-americans-now-kinda-okay-with-george-w-bush/

CountryClassSF strategy: throw extraneous information into a discussion until everyone else gives up.

[Fuzzy Says: "Abolish NPR!"]

Won't hurt him in the primary.

Yeah it will. GOPers are smart enough to not want to neutralize Clinton's weaknesses.

Republicans are tires of the Bushes because they both have left unpopular legacies.

[Ebowed]

What a ghastly confession to have made.  It won't be the last time we hear about it, that's for sure.

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Maybe it's not politically smart, but I'm okay with it personally.

[Tender Branson]

LOL, what a joke.

But could actually work with Republicans, a party full of warmongers and morons ...

[PPT Spiral]

Anyone who believes that Jeb would take a more realist approach has not been paying attention as much as they should.

[Stranger in a strange land]

This is campaign ending. No Democrat or independent is going to vote for a third term for George W. Bush.

"Currently, 84% of Republicans, 46% of independents, and 24% of Democrats have a favorable view of Bush, each up more than 10 points since 2009. However, the more recent improvement in his ratings, a five-point overall uptick since November 2010, has been more apparent among Democrats, whose rating has increased by 10 points since then."

http://www.mediaite.com/online/poll-americans-now-kinda-okay-with-george-w-bush/

CountryClassSF strategy: throw extraneous information into a discussion until everyone else gives up.

All presidents, even disgraced, unpopular ones like Nixon and Dubya, see their favorability rise after they leave office. Dubya's ratings, and Jeb's along with them, will drop like a rock once the Bush name gets dragged back into politics, especially once his opponents start running attack ads.

[pbrower2a]

George W. Bush as one of the advisers on foreign policy for his brother? He might as well have an Enron crook as an adviser on economics.