Political Wire: Jeb Bush Has a Mitt Romney Problem

[flpoljunkie]

Jeb Bush Has a Mitt Romney Problem

December 11, 2014By Taegan Goddard

Businessweek reports that Jeb Bush’s recent business ventures “reveal that he shares a number of liabilities with the last nominee, Mitt Romney, whose career in private equity proved so politically damaging that it sunk his candidacy.”

“Documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Nov. 27 list Bush as chairman and manager of a new offshore private equity fund, BH Global Aviation, which raised $61 million in September, largely from foreign investors. In November the fund ­incorporated in the United Kingdom and Wales­—a ­structure, several independent finance lawyers say, that operates like a tax haven by allowing overseas investors to avoid U.S. taxes and regulations.”

http://politicalwire.com/2014/12/11/jeb-bush-has-a-mitt-romney-problem/

[djean111]

1. That is something the GOP will admire, just the way they admire Christie's brutality and venality.

Remember, our "bugs" are their "features".
The only thing that can hurt Jeb or Mitt is if the billionaires do manage to agree on which one of them to put their primaries money on, in order to save money.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. You betcha! Laws are for peons.

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

3. The problem Jeb shares with Mitt

Is that to win the nomination he would have to become the next etch-a-sketch. He would have to back track on everything he ever said or did and at the end of the day, I don't think he could do that... there's just too much video...

[marble falls]

4. Where to locate the car elevator?

[flpoljunkie]

5. Good one!

[Arkana]

6. Another old, rich, white guy!

Well, I guess the last one worked out so well we should do it again, right?

[Jamaal510]

7. Like Willard,

nobody likes him (not even his party's own base), and he appears "centrist" and "sane" in contrast to some of his would-be GOP competitors such as Rand Paul and Ben Carson.

[davidpdx]

8. I hope Jeb's past comes back to haunt him just like it did Rmoney's

It's never too early to start getting recordings of him at events and letting people know what a scumbag he and his family are.

[Kablooie]

9. Actually I think Jeb has a good shot at winning.

he is positioning himself as an honest Independent broker who doesn't follow the herd.

If this image continues and with Hillary cuddling up to Wall Street slime balls he may draw a lot of votes away from the Democrats and win the election.

[yellowcanine]

10. Not to mention two George Bush problems.