{"id":12152,"date":"2015-12-29T00:09:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T00:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12152"},"modified":"2015-12-29T00:09:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T00:09:57","slug":"still-pulling-for-jeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12152","title":{"rendered":"Still pulling for Jeb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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John Ellis Bush, aka Jeb, is trying to goad Donald Trump into making more stupid pronouncements.<\/p>\n

To be honest, I\u00a0might be one of the few Americans, let alone non-Republicans,\u00a0pulling for Jeb to get Trump’s goat.<\/p>\n

Jeb wants Trump <\/a>one-on-one, in a debate. Just the two of ’em. Man to man.<\/p>\n

It won’t happen, of course, given federal election rules that prohibit the exclusion of other declared presidential candidates.<\/p>\n

Jeb, though, is trying to inject some of the energy that Trump has said is missing from his campaign.<\/p>\n

Why am I pulling for Jeb?<\/p>\n

OK, a couple of reasons.<\/p>\n

One is that I long have admired the man’s family and its history of public service to the country. I point specifically to his grandfather, the late Sen. Prescott Bush, and — of course — his dad, the 41st president of the United States, George H.W. Bush.<\/p>\n

Daddy Bush — known as Poppy to his family — in my view was the most qualified man ever to serve as president. He brought a stellar public service resume to the White House.<\/p>\n

The second reason is that while I didn’t vote for older brother George W. for any public office — as Texas governor or as president — I happen to like him personally. I’ve met the 43rd president on three occasions: once on an elevator in New Orleans during the 1988 GOP presidential convention; in a lengthy 1995 interview in Austin not many months after he became governor; and in 1998 when I interviewed him in Amarillo while he was seeking re-election as governor.<\/p>\n

My face-to-face contact with George W. Bush persuaded me beyond a doubt that he got a\u00a0 bum rap from those who accused him being a dim bulb. Bush proved to be an amazingly quick study as governor.<\/p>\n

Will the younger Bush be able to energize his moribund campaign? I hope he does and I also hope he’s able to knock Donald J. Trump down a peg or four along the way.<\/p>\n

I am not going to predict it will happen, but my version of hope does spring eternal.<\/p>\n

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John Ellis Bush, aka Jeb, is trying to goad Donald Trump into making more stupid pronouncements. To be honest, I\u00a0might be one of the few Americans, let alone non-Republicans,\u00a0pulling for Jeb to get Trump’s goat. Jeb wants Trump one-on-one, in a debate. Just the two of ’em. Man to man. It won’t happen, of course, … Continue reading Still pulling for Jeb<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1424,1890,1899,2429,5246],"class_list":["post-12152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-h-w-bush","tag-george-w-bush","tag-jeb-bush","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12153,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152\/revisions\/12153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}