Friends: Jeb Bush may not run for Senate

[seafan]

Well, put up or shut up, Jeb.



Friends: Jeb Bush may not run for Senate

Jan. 6, 2009 at 2:07 PM
UPI

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Jan. 6 (UPI) -- Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush may turn down pleas for him to run for the U.S. Senate because of family considerations, friends say.

Even though Republican Party officials are excited at the prospect of Bush, brother U.S. President George Bush, running for a seat to be vacated by GOP Sen. Mel Martinez, others say he may disappoint them, the St. Petersburg Times reported Tuesday.

"I know it's a big struggle for him," former Florida Republican Chairman Al Cardenas told the newspaper. Cardenas, who says he believes Bush, 55, is still undecided, added, "As his friend, I think maybe he's better off where he is. As a Republican who loves his party so much, I know we need him."

Unnamed friends told the newspaper that despite Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush, touting him on national television as a terrific potential future senator or U.S. president, he's seriously weighing the toll a Senate run would take on his family and his consulting business.

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Perhaps Jeb is more concerned about the toll a Senate run would have on him because of THIS family:



Timeline: Terri Schiavo case, March 31, 2005

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Who wants Jeb Bush to reign supreme over deeply personal family decisions?



What's it gonna be, Jeb?

Don't fall for this cat-and-mouse. This jackal's going to make his move soon.

[WI_DEM]

1. I hope he doesn't run because in FL I think he could actually win

and then he'll use that as a launching pad for 2016.

[newscott]

2. Please if there is a God

Would She or He at least spare us just this once?

[AndyA]

3. No more Bushes in politics. Bury them and salt the ground!

From Grandpa Prescott selling illegal arms to the Nazis to the latest abuse currently occupying the White House, the Bush Family has f*cked America up one side and down the other for generations.

No more Bushes in public (dis)service! EVER!!

[UTUSN]

4. K&R #1 for, please PLEASE O great Zeus!1 Make it so!1 n/t

[Turbineguy]

5. He should probably at least wait

until George W croaks.

[MiniMe]

6. He is smarter than I thought if he decides it is best to keep the Bush name out of

politics for a while.