{"id":13473,"date":"2007-11-04T11:35:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/13473.html"},"modified":"2007-11-04T11:35:09","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T16:35:09","slug":"please-stay-out-of-the-bushes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/please-stay-out-of-the-bushes\/","title":{"rendered":"Please stay out of the Bushes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President George H.W. Bush suggested this morning on Fox News that his family may still produce <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2007\/11\/04\/hw-bush-fox-news\/\">even more political candidates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bush &#8230; said that he would like to see another generation of Bushes in public office. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a grandson that would make a wonderfully able public servant if he ran, George P.,&#8221; said Bush. &#8220;And Pierce, Neil&#8217;s son. They have an interest in politics.&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If the next generation of Bushes were to enter public office, it would likely be more of the same politics put forth by the current president:<\/p>\n<p>* George P. Bush, the son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, has been actively involved in his family&#8217;s political fortunes since 1988, when he spoke at the Republican National Convention as a 12 year old. He was also heavily involved in his uncle&#8217;s 2000 and 2004 campaigns, working on outreach to the Latino community.<\/p>\n<p>* Pierce Bush, the son of high-priced consultant Neil Bush, worked on his Uncle&#8217;s 2004 campaign, telling Larry King that &#8220;George W.&#8217;s done a great job.&#8221; He also shares some of his uncle&#8217;s frat boy &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/politics\/pierce-bush\/douchebag-of-the-day-pierce-bush-160204.php\">folksiness<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hasn&#8217;t this family done enough? Can&#8217;t they just leave us alone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President George H.W. Bush suggested this morning on Fox News that his family may still produce even more political candidates. Bush &#8230; said that he would like to see another generation of Bushes in public office. &#8220;I&#8217;ve got a grandson that would make a wonderfully able public servant if he ran, George P.,&#8221; said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}