It's official. It's Jeb Bush.

I want God to arrange for Santorum to be the GOP nominee in 2016, is what that means.

But since you didn’t say it with your mouth, it’s not appropriate to say “From your mouth to God’s ears.”

Whelp, there goes the plans to elect Zombie Taft.

But what about The House of Mouse? They’re still okay, right?

Hopefully, they’ve kept the Taft bathtub in storage for just such an eventuality.

I can see Mickey as POTUS and Goofy as Veep and Donald as Defense Secretary – but, of course it doesn’t matter, Uncle Scrooge will really call the shots and pull the strings, just like he does now.

And so does Santorum, so that’s two prayers . . . maybe we should start a prayer chain . . .

Aside: never really understood where the idea of Clinton as fat came from. While he obviously didn’t spend as much time in the gym as Bush II or Obama, Bill Clinton was, if anything, relatively skinny.

But they’ve already got the campaign posters ready :smiley:

He doesn’t look skinny, he looks like he’s wearing a well tailored suit, and that’s the point of wearing those. He doesn’t look so good here. And you may wish you could unsee this one. Where did the idea come from? I’m not sure, but I thought he admitted on the campaign trail that he ate a lot of junk food and needed to lose some weight.

Fair enough, skinny might be a bit of a stretch. But still, even in jogging get-up, he’s not noticeably fat.

Just seems weird. Most things people make fun of politicians, while they might be unfair, have at least enough basis in truth that you can see where they’re coming from.

He’s not obese or anything, no. I’m not sure anyone ever said he was. Perhaps the SNL sketches with Phil Hartman made people think of him as a guy who liked to pig out.

Or cause a recession.:rolleyes:

They raised taxes because the recession was driving up the deficit. The economy didn’t go into a recession because taxes went up.

I know it’s not up there with foreign or economic policy, but I found his rolling over to the knuckledragging fundies in the Terri Schiavo matter more than a little troubling. Speaking only for myself — obviously — I’d need confirmation that he has sufficient stones to tell the KDFs to take a flying fleech before I’d consider him qualified for the job.

Stones? He didn’t follow their orders; he’s one of them. And the Schiavo affair is also the first thing I think of when people start discussing Jeb.

Yes it did. And it made it worse.

<Insert joke about Aladdin and the Middle East here>

I honestly can’t tell if that’s a joke or not?

You realize the economy went into recession before the tax increases happened, right? Is that the reason for the bizarre phrasing in this post- which suggests the increases somehow caused the recession and made it worse at the same time?

It’s not. Obama’s victory seems to have galvanized pkbites’ CCF (Conservative Curmudgeon Factor).

Dons don’t wear shorts, Bill.

He’s got a chubby face, so even when he’s not on the heavy side, he doesn’t look skinny. Michael Kors has a similar problem. (In so far as it’s a “problem”, of course.)