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Elder Bush would like son Jeb to run for US president

Jeb is a Catholic and they will want to keep their CRW voting base. Again I would look for a manipulation, evolution or some kind of reconciliation between the Catholics and CRW. They have time.

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Elder Bush would like son Jeb to run for US president
01 June 2005

WASHINGTON: George Bush, the former United States president and father of the country's current leader, would like his son Jeb to also run for president when the timing is right.


Florida Governor Jeb Bush has repeatedly said he does not plan to run for president in 2008, trying to dampen speculation that another Bush could be on the next Republican ticket for the White House.

In an interview on CNN's Larry King Live, former President Bush said he would want Jeb to run for president "someday," but now was not the time.

"The timing's wrong. The main thing is, he doesn't want to do it. Nobody believes that," Bush said.

But he and wife Barbara both said they believed Jeb, 52, did not want to run in the next presidential race.

Bush said he did not have a favourite candidate for the Republican nomination to succeed his son, President George W Bush.

Barbara Bush said she believed Senator and former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton would be the Democratic nominee in the 2008 presidential race. "I'm not going to vote for her, but I'm betting on her," she said.

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