A 3rd Bush family member running for president? Oh, no! Say it isn't so.

So, Jeb Bush - son of President George H. W. Bush and younger brother President George W. Bush and former governor of Florida - announced this week that he is 'actively exploring' a 2016 presidential candidacy on the GOP ticket.

All I can say to that is "Oh, my god, no! No, no, no, no,no,no!" This country does not need anymore Bush family baggage in a presidential race - let alone letting one who is a RINO* to say the least
It's not like either of the preceding Bush family presidents were anything terribly successful. In a lot of ways they were complete disasters. Both set up the most-liberal, most destructive, most-anti-American presidencies in US history to immediately follow theirs.

George Herbert Walker Bush's single-term presidency was anything to get excited about. Certainly his was a "closet liberal" presidency marred by clumsiness like "Read my lips! 'No new taxes!" when he turned right around and went along with Democrat-majority congress' proposals for a bunch of new taxes. Yet he defeated Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and evicted his invading army from Kuwait just as he promised. And afterward he had one of the highest approval ratings of any US president...only to let it wither away a year later and lose - resoundingly - to the draft-dodging, self-admitted dope smoker (but remember; he 'never inhaled') Bill Clinton.

And certainly the two-term presidency of his oldest son, George W. Bush, Clinton's successor, was marred with controversy and turmoil both political and economic. Though he steered the country through the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil (September 11, 2001) and quickly defeated the Taliban which had sponsored it on the battlefield in Afghanistan and kept the country free from attack for the remainder of his presidency, Bush quickly squandered the country's new-found patriotism after 9-11 by engaging it in an unpopular war in Iraq (eventually deposing and executing Saddam Hussein). And his economic policies and sympathies toward amnesty for illegal aliens and other "big money" interests alienated the Conservative political base that had swept him into power post-Clinton in 2000.

But for the GOP to even consider Jeb Bush as a leading potential presidential salvation after 8 years of economic, political, judicial/legal and otherwise destruction poured out on this nation by the regime of "president" Barry Hussein Obama just goes to show the moral and leadership bankruptcy of the Republican Party.

Small wonder I changed my political affiliation from Republican a couple elections back. And each stupid move like this one just convinces me I did the right thing.


*Republican In Name Only (as in registered Republican but liberal/Democrat politically)