Jeb backing McCain

At least that's the Buzz we're hearing today, that the former governor with impeccable conservative credentials has sent a check to the presumptive GOP nominee. It's a clear message to Republicans skeptical of McCain.

A word of caution, however - we haven't heard confirmation yet from Jeb himself.

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Big surprise! Jeb is supporting the Republican Presidential Nominee. Did we think he would support Hillary?

[UF Student]

ALL ABOARD!!!!!

A bold political move there, old boy...

McCain/Bush

McCain/Terminator

McCain/Terminator

McCain / Terminator makes no sense. Arnold cannot deliver California to the Republicans.

McCain / Bush or McCain / Crist makes sense.

This is one Republican who is just going to sit this election out.

[Charlie Brown]

JEB you have lost your credability and "cpmservative credentials" with this conservative.

[Charlie Brown]

JEB you have lost your credibility and "cpmservative credentials" with this conservative.

Hillary/DiBenigno

[Omega83]

5:36 is a Buzz Blog rookie and does not know that it is a different terminator being references

[terminator]

Omega:
I'll take the compliment anyway.

But seriously, could the real Terminator, not the prodigious Buzz blogger from somewhere down the bottom of the peninsula be a VP candidate?

Hailing from Austria, he'd be ineligible to become President should something happen to Mac.

Could he still serve as VP but just be passed over in the event of presidential succession?

Also, wasn't Arnold's father a member of the Austrian SS after the Anschluss?

It's ironic Jeb's endorsement comes one day after Romney dropped out. Jeb, you're slipping. Better get back to work on destroying Florida public schools with your foundation for florida's demise!

Thank you JEB!

[But what about McCain's carbon tax.]

Global cooling alarmism ahead?
Thomas Lifson
The debate over global warming theory is turning into a contest between two explanatory models for climate change: human activity or solar activity. Now comes news that solar activity may be declining, signaling that we may (no alarmism here) be entering a period of global cooling. Investor's Business Daily explains:

Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada's National Research Council, is among those looking at the sun for evidence of an increase in sunspot activity.

Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century.

Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle.

This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.

IBD puts this into context:

As we have noted many times, perhaps the biggest impact on the Earth's climate over time has been the sun.

For instance, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany report the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years, accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth's temperature over the last 100 years.

R. Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center of Canada's Carleton University, says that "CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on long, medium and even short time scales."

Rather, he says, "I and the first-class scientists I work with are consistently finding excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations of the sun and earthly climate. This is not surprising. The sun and the stars are the ultimate source of energy on this planet."

Patterson, sharing Tapping's concern, says: "Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth."

"Solar activity has overpowered any effect that CO2 has had before, and it most likely will again," Patterson says. "If we were to have even a medium-sized solar minimum, we could be looking at a lot more bad effects than 'global warming' would have had."

The time horizon here allows potential political feedback in the next two presidential cycles, should actual cooling take place and refute the anthropogenic enthusiasts, the warmist cult, as I call them.

Occam's Razor suggests that solar activity ought to be a baseline assumption for climate change. In addition to being simple and direct, it has demonstrably driven climate in the past. A few dubious models based on historical statistics of questionable accuracy, pushing a convoluted explanation in which variations in a trace gas (CO2 is 385 parts per million of the atmosphere by volume) drive climate, should be greeted with skepticism until conclusive evidence is in hand.

A new Maunder Minimum would be unpleasant for many. But those still believing in carbon dioxide as a climate driver might begin advocating carbon subsidies and doing penance for buying all those carbon credits.

Kudos to Jeb for moving to unify the GOP. And it wouldn't hurt his feelings if McCain put him on the ticket either. That's what he wanted from Romney.

[mixolydian]

Jeb Bush steps up as always.

Class act. He puts the party first!

From The Politico ..., via TalkingPoiontsMemo, 2/8/08

"Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), a certified public accountant, had pushed for months for an internal audit of the National Republican Congressional Committee, according to GOP members, but the committee’s treasurer at the time was reluctant.
Finally, at a recent meeting, the now former NRCC treasurer, Christopher J. Ward, relented, giving Conaway what was supposed to be an official internal audit from 2006. That document was a fake, the GOP members said. Even the letterhead on which it was sent was a forgery.

[R's even too stupid to think they could get away with forged documents!]

Revelations about the falsified document touched off an unfolding scandal that has rocked the NRCC and spurred a criminal investigation by the FBI into the committee’s accounting procedures.

Fearing the fallout from the discovery, the NRCC informed its principle lender, Wachovia, of potential accounting problems. Wachovia, which declined comment Thursday, had lent the committee $9 million in 2006, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Knowing the bank was required by law to notify federal investigators of any “suspicious activity,” the NRCC also alerted the FBI, Republican insiders confirmed.

At the same time, NRCC officials notified the FEC that the committee may have filed inaccurate disclosure statements."

what?

CROOKED R's'?

can you visualize a lng line of R's marching off to jail for all sorts of criminal activities?

btw, FATJEB as a running mate is terminally STUPID!!

it will be YEARS before a "bush" can even be elected village idiot!!

5:36, aka dumba@* I was talking about our beloved, communist, always wrong terminator, not the almighty Arnold. It was a joke. Get with the program already.

Oh, termie... U suck. Nice moustache.

5:36, aka dumba@* I was talking about our beloved, communist, always wrong terminator, not the almighty Arnold. It was a joke. Get with the program already.

Oh, termie... U suck. Nice moustache.

Their's no one else to back after Romney's gone so Jebby steps up to the plate. He should take his smuggling wife and move to Texas, if they'll have him, but check her bags before they leave.

Huckabee is a court jester, comedy relief only.

http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000926.htm

No conservative should give Senator McCain a penny til he renounces his support for tax payer funded destruction of human life through embryonic stem cell research.

The convictions and difference between a true beliver and a pragmatist is his stand on core beliefs. Reagan was a true believer.

McCain on the the hand is neither a true believer or a pragmatist, he's a liberal.

Out with Republican mediocrity in with leadership.

[Chris]

"No conservative should give Senator McCain a penny til he renounces his support for tax payer funded destruction of human life through embryonic stem cell research."

That's pretty stupid. There are 50 other issues that are a hell of a lot more important to the future of this country than that one.
Damn religious nuts. How did we get stuck with them?

"The convictions and difference between a true beliver and a pragmatist is his stand on core beliefs. Reagan was a true believer."

I assume you're not talking about Nancy.

Termie's ego is only surpassed by his ignorance. Events have proven him wrong every single time. No brains, no ethics, all sleaze.

Jeb is a class guy who places party before preference.

Correct Chris, I was
not talking about Nancy Reagan.
She consulted astrologers for counsel while in the White House if you recall.

Defending human life is not stupid, and shouldn't be underestimated as a critical moral issue.

The Gipper would never have gone for it, particularly with tax payer's money.

"Defending human life is not stupid, and shouldn't be underestimated as a critical moral issue."

I don't think it's stupid, I think making it the only issue on whether to support a candidate for President is stupid.
Being strong on the issue of defending human life could also include someone who isn't going to back down against fighting islamic terrorism.

"The Gipper would never have gone for it, particularly with tax payer's money."

Considering his wife is one of the major advocates for it these days, some people might disagree with your assessment.

Reagan was his own man and would never have compromised the means justifying the end. He was a man of prinicple.

His wife on the other hand consulted astrologers and was not a true believer.

Very interestin'

Reagan was sort of his own man and did compromise at times when the end justified the means. He was a man of principle - when convenient.

By implication, Reagan via his wife consulted astrologers and was not a true believer either.

JEB!/Romney

6:30 you did not know Reagan... apparently.

Your assumption about being a man of principle "when convenient" is more a description of today's Republicans.

Including the one this thread is about.

Listened to McCain yesterday, and boy is he sucking up to the conservatives. I guess the Jeb Bush support confirms it. C'mon DEMs! Vote Vote Vote or we're going to get "Four More Years!"

Gee thanks, Jeb. That ought to get out the anti-Bush vote.

Jeb Bush steps up as always.

Class act. He puts himself first!

Every time!

[Dee]

This was not a smart move. The grass roots conservatives are increasingly developing an us vs. them and them spirt. The sense that the party elitist are selling them out is becoming overwhelming with every additional endorsement McAmnesty gets. Using the BUSH name serves to throw distrust fuel on the fire not salve.

Of course this is about the party not the people so carry on and win one for Dole!!!

Dee,

Jeb stood with McCain on the immigration issue this summer, or di you forget that?

McAmnesty will blow a nut by the middle of June, and everyone will see the REAL lil’ Johnny Napoleon… the whole country will run like hell in the other direction.

Let me by the first to congratulate you; President Obama and Vice President Clinton!

Does this mean that Cristi will now be backing Obama, since the only reason he endorsed McCain was that Jebbie endorsed Romney?

Jeb didn't endorse Romney you bozo!

Jeb first threw his quazi support behind Romney... blue bloods stick together. When Mitt dropped, the Republicon came out in Jeb and he jumped on the McAmnesty bus!