Jebbies little secret

[deminks]

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I wrote a piece for Salon about Jeb Bush's foreign policy. I recount the history of Poppy and Junior and their relationship to the "realists" vs the "neocons." I recapped some of the familiar stuff about the Project for a New American Century and then this:

And what does all this have to do with Jeb? Well, he happens to be the only Bush who was a card-carrying member of the PNAC. He was a neocon long before neocons were cool. In fact, one must suspect that his early defiance of his father and brother in this regard signals the act of a True Believer. He didn’t need to do it. He was Governor of Florida, not head of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He must have really thought the cause was righteous.

(snip)

Trying to manage these various pulls of family loyalty and defiance with all these warring ideological constituencies would be a challenge to the most skilled politician who has been sharpening his game for years in anticipation of a presidential run. That politician is not Jeb Bush. Right now he’s being given a smooth ride because the press and the political establishment is afraid that the lunatic fringe might get a crack at the white house and they see Jeb as the only sane alternative. The problem is that Jeb’s one of the crazies too, always has been.

The bottom line is this: if you liked Dick Cheney, you’re going to love President Jeb Bush. It turns out that Jeb’s the guy W was pretending to be.

(end snip)

Salon article:

Jeb’s quiet wingnutty past: Why he has to distance himself from… himself

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/13/jebs_quiet_wingnutty_past_why_he_has_to_distance_himself_from_himself/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. He may look sane.......but that's the problem. He's not.

[cwydro]

4. Yup.

Gotta agree.

[BrotherIvan]

2. "The problem is that Jeb’s one of the crazies too, always has been. "

Jeb is worse than crazy, he is quite literally a soulles, heartless, gaping maw of greed and evil. If this country wants to jump into the abyss, it will elect Jeb Bush. His reign will be Bush I & II on steroids. He is Public Enemy #1 right now because there truly is no greater threat to the people of the United States.

[colsohlibgal]

3. Scary

Dubya could barely walk and chew gum at the same time, Jeb has him beat upstairs, no doubt, but that's as low a bar as one can imagine.

Both of them, and Poppy Bush, have gotten a free pass from the nefarious dealings of patriarch Prescott Bush, Poppy's dad, who had some questionable dealings with Hitler and the Nazis.

Bushes. Clintons. I'm tired of both families. We fought for our freedom from monarchies. Oh and the damage Cheney...err Dubya did was immense, and Bill Clinton helped repeal Glass-Steagall which played a huge hand in the crash of 2008.

[truebluegreen]

5. Michael Schiavo recently opened up about the extent of Jeb's wingnuttiness

and true believer-ship. He was in the fight early, kept the other thing going far past any kind of sanity, even kept after Schiavo long after the cause was lost, the woman was dead and the autopsy was in. Crazy mofo.