# Serious thoughts requested on some 2016 candidates

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-thoughts-requested-on-some-2016-candidates/704295>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [November 11, 2014, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-thoughts-requested-on-some-2016-candidates/704295 "2014-11-11T01:26:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-thoughts-requested-on-some-2016-candidates/704295/181 "2014-12-20T10:10:32Z")

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> [@adaher](#):
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> … the Democrats’ only Cuban Congressman, …

That’s interesting. When did we start letting Cubans into Congress?

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**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-thoughts-requested-on-some-2016-candidates/704295/182 "2014-12-20T17:03:25Z")

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> [@Frank](#):
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> That’s interesting. When did we start letting Cubans into Congress?

Well, the only other Cuban-American democratic congressman, Albio Sires, was born in Cuba. So that almost counts.

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**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-thoughts-requested-on-some-2016-candidates/704295/183 "2014-12-20T17:06:19Z")

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> [@Velocity](#):
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> A better analogy would be if Nixon’s brother ran for president a decade after Watergate.

That is a better analogy. I wasn’t really making that analogy, more of a “Nixon fatigue”/“Bush fatigue”. After Nixon lost the Calif. governorship, he famously told the press “you won’t have Nixon to kick around any more” and _no-one_ would have disagreed. I worry at those who think “Bush fatigue” is some sort of real and permanent condition due to the excellent memories and judgement of the US voter.

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**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/serious-thoughts-requested-on-some-2016-candidates/704295/184 "2014-12-20T17:18:38Z")

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> [@Truman\_Burbank](#):
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> That is a better analogy. I wasn’t really making that analogy, more of a “Nixon fatigue”/“Bush fatigue”. After Nixon lost the Calif. governorship, he famously told the press “you won’t have Nixon to kick around any more” and _no-one_ would have disagreed. I worry at those who think “Bush fatigue” is some sort of real and permanent condition due to the excellent memories and judgement of the US voter.

Agreed, and a counter-argument is that every winning Republican ticket after 1972 has had a Bush on it (and you’d have to go back to 1928 to find a winning Republican ticket that didn’t have a Bush or Nixon on it.) So maybe they’d be crazy _not_ to nominate Jeb.

Maybe Jeb Bush just needs a [theme song like this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmKgITJejfg) to kick things off. 😉

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