# Bush thinks Jeb would be a "great" president. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 10, 2006, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263 "2006-05-10T19:47:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/21 "2006-05-10T21:34:31Z")
> [@Lightnin'](#): > > Actually, it sounds to me like they’re grooming Jeb to run for el Presidente. > > “Jeb is a good man. He plays well with others, and he’s kind to puppies and children” is saying something nice about his brother. Saying “Jeb would be a great president” is laying the groundwork for a presidential run. > > Come on. Tell me they’re not at least _thinking_ of having Jeb run. Who do you mean by “they”? I’m sure there are some people who want him to run, just like there are some people who want Condi to run. I give Jeb about a 10% chance of running and about a 20% chance of winning the nomination if he runs, and about a 20% of winning the general. I thnk the Bushes know they need to lay low for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/22 "2006-05-10T21:48:59Z")
Jeb _would_ make a better president than his older brother. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/23 "2006-05-10T22:57:45Z")
So would a damp mop. And the damp mop is edging out Jeb in the **kaylasdad99** scientific poll of likely voters named **kaylasdad**. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/24 "2006-05-10T23:32:52Z")
> [@John Mace](#): > > I think the Bushes know they need to lay low for awhile. Yet the lesson of 9/11 teaches us to strike while the iron is **hot**. 2008 would be a perfect time for a Jeb/Condoleezza ticket. If Jeb runs, he’ll likely get my vote in the primary. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/25 "2006-05-10T23:43:33Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > So would a damp mop. > > And the damp mop is edging out Jeb in the **kaylasdad99** scientific poll of likely voters named **kaylasdad**. Is this a poll? If so, put me down for the damp mop. ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/26 "2006-05-10T23:46:04Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Is this a poll? If so, put me down for the damp mop. Mop in 2008!! ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/27 "2006-05-10T23:49:01Z")
I’d like to nominate Strom Thurmond’s mummified left testicle. Gonad vs. Mop in the NH primary should be a good fight, I tells ya. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/28 "2006-05-10T23:53:49Z")
This is what they call, in PR, a test drive. Throw something out there and see what the reaction is. That is all. If reaction is horrifying, they just say “Hey the President supports his brother, big deal”. If reaction is good they say, “Go Jeb, seize the day, ride your brother’s coat tails”. ---
**Author:** ![Merhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Merhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merhouse)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/29 "2006-05-11T00:24:22Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Bush thinks Jeb would be a “great” president. Hey, GWB thinks **he’s** a great President, too. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/30 "2006-05-11T00:36:40Z")
Sorry, I arrived late. What’s this I hear about Dubya’s brother mopping Hillary’s face with his testicles? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/31 "2006-05-11T00:37:58Z")
Bush also thought that Brownie would make a great head of FEMA and that Rummy would make a great SOD and that his housekeeper (or whatever the hell she was) would make a great Supreme Court Justice. He also knew that Sammy Sosa could be of no use as a Texas Ranger. He’s got a real eye for talent. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/32 "2006-05-11T00:42:31Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > Sorry, I arrived late. What’s this I hear about Dubya’s brother mopping Hillary’s face with his testicles? 😕 Thank you. That made me smile. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/33 "2006-05-11T01:00:03Z")
Exactly how damp is this mop? Is it adequately damp to remove dirt and grease marks easily, or is it merely damp enough to promote mold growth and cultivate a sour smell after a while? More importantly, what kind of fish will Jeb choose as his running mate? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/34 "2006-05-11T01:33:28Z")
> [@Lissa](#): > > If reaction is good they say, “Go Jeb, seize the day, ride your brother’s coat tails”. 32% has _coattails_??? frayed cuffs perhaps, but coat tails? nah. would I vote for Jeb in primary? you betcha, just like certain conservatives voted for Geoffrey Feiger in the MI gubernatorial primary some years back. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/35 "2006-05-11T03:15:58Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > Exactly how damp is this mop? Is it adequately damp to remove dirt and grease marks easily, or is it merely damp enough to promote mold growth and cultivate a sour smell after a while? > > More importantly, what kind of fish will Jeb choose as his running mate? Well ,the one I had in mind was the latter. Of course, either one would meet the spec of making a better president than Jeb’s older brother. And either one would beat Jeb in my less-scientific-by-the-minute poll. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/36 "2006-05-11T04:28:29Z")
Nothing would thrill me more than to see Jeb as the GOP’s candidate in 2008. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/37 "2006-05-11T11:32:15Z")
> [@Terrifel](#): > > Exactly how damp is this mop? Is it adequately damp to remove dirt and grease marks easily Mop is damp with courage, liberty, and american values, and it is more than adequately damp enough to wipe out the dirt of poverty and the grease marks of terrorism from this great world floor of ours. > [@](#): > > or is it merely damp enough to promote mold growth and cultivate a sour smell after a while? Mop is damp enough to promote economic growth, and the spread the sweet smell of freedom Vote Mop 2008 ---
**Author:** ![RTA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@RTA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTA)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/38 "2006-05-11T12:33:47Z")
If Jeb had become governor the same year his brother got elected in Texas, they would have put him up for prez instead of W … W was clearly the B-Team “prince” in that bunch of royal family wannabes. Then we might not be in the same sort of mess we are in now; like his brother, Jeb is a Grade-A prick and a bully too, but at least he’s not a pig head and a dumb shit. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/39 "2006-05-11T13:35:29Z")
When I said in 2000 “You couldn’t get me to vote for Bush if you went into the voting booth with me and put a gun to my head,” I didn’t realize it might still apply eight years later. I’m hoping for Hilary and Rudy! ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263/40 "2006-05-11T13:51:58Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > My nightmare scenario for 2008 is Jeb Bush against Hillary Clinton. “The best thing about this group of candidates is that only one of them can win.” – Will Rogers [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-thinks-jeb-would-be-a-great-president/356263.md?page=3)