Jeb Backs Romney

[Doug]

DOUG
GW and GHW Bush actually want Jeb to run in 2008! Jeb has declined, and backs Romney instead.

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Jeb Bush, who hasn't publicly picked a favorite in the Republican presidential race, privately is talking up the candidacy of Mitt Romney and steering some of his closest advisers to the campaign.

The former Florida governor has said repeatedly he won't be a candidate in 2008 despite encouragement from his father, the former president, and his brother, the current one. But Jeb Bush's support, even tacit, would be critical in the state that decided the 2000 presidential election.

"Governor Bush said, 'Before you commit, I want you to meet Mitt Romney. He is the kind of guy you will like no matter what,'" said former Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings. "The governor was very candid about the fact that he really liked this guy."

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[Dardedar]

DAR
I can't see how he has a chance in hell. At least 1/3 of republicans (the hardcore base) thinks he belongs to an unchristian, or pseudo-christian, cult. At least a huge chunk of the republicans will not vote for him under any circumstances. He's so done.

D.

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Oh yeah - just let Romney get ahead in the primaries and you will see multiple reprints of "Riders of the Purple Sage" passed around. There's plenty of anti-Mormon stuff out there and the wingnuts buy all of it. (Really ironic, too, since - except for "sectarian" differences - the Mormans and the other wingnuts are both largely sexist, racist, homophobes.)

[Dardedar]

[Hogeye]

Riders of the Purple Sage? Isn't that the Grateful Dead offshoot band that had the hit song "Panama Red"?

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Possibly, I don't know anything about the Grateful Dead, much less any offshoot bands. Riders of the Purple Sage is an old, exceedingly anti-Mormon, Zane Grey western.