Why is Jeb called "Jeb"?

[Ignacio Upton]

Jeb is really just his full initials (John Ellis Bush.) Anyone find it weird that he's calling himself "John Ellis Bush Bush"? Shouldn't he just go by John Bush?

[niyad]

1. bighead or jackass works for me.

[NoPasaran]

2. I think it's a play on the Confederate cavalry general "Jeb" Stuart

Whose name really was James Ewell Brown Stuart.

[Ignacio Upton]

26. Yeah but Stuart didn't use his last name

In such a redundant fashion

[NotGivingUp]

3. that IS weird!

[SmokingJacket]

4. Ooops, didn't read post carefully!

nt

[muntrv]

5. HW apparently was trying to assimilate into the good ole boy culture.

[RadiDem]

6. easier to spell and say than 'Gomer'?

[benddem]

7. to be different

from John Bush the uncle. I think the family has called him that all along.

[ikojo]

8. It's an acronymn of his given name

John Ellis Bush...I think acronymn is the correct word.

[SoCalDem]

9. John Ellis Bush..J.E.B. n/t

[Canuckistanian]

10. Poppy and Babs just like silly names.

It's their rebellion for being denied permission to go to the Circus with the poor people.

[jmowreader]

11. You've seen him, right?

Jeb Bush won the special award for "Bush family member who looks most like he'd stick a refrigerator out on the front porch of the governor's mansion."

As opposed to his brother George the Younger, who really did that.

[David in Canada]

14. Actually,

George W. Bush is older than John Ellis "Jeb" Bush.

GWB was born on July 6, 1946 while JEB was born in 1953.

[jmowreader]

17. "George the Younger" has nothing to do with Jeb

George Herbert Walker Bush is George the Elder.

His idiot bastard son is George the Younger.

[Mabus]

12. I thought it stood for Joke of Experimental Biology

but then, that's just me.

[Rosemary2205]

13. I read he's been called Jeb since childhood.

Certainly closer to reality than "John Wayne" or "Mohammed Ali". It's just a name so we all know who the heck we are talking to. It's fairly meaningless really.

What's meaningful is Jeb's level of incompetance and dishonesty.

[Redstone]

15. Jerkoff (is my) Elder Brother?

Redstone

[youthere]

16. Why is George W. called president? It's a crazy world.

[XOKCowboy]

18. It's that "folksy" bs the Bushies are so good at...

They're freakin' Connecticut Yankees but always seem to convince the simple people to believe they're down home country folks.

[Ignacio Upton]

29. That brings me to another question...

Why does George W. have a slight Texan accent while Jeb and none of the other family members have one? I know he embellishes it on the campaign trail, but I think it's still party real.

[HughMoran]

19. Because "fucking ass hole" is too difficult to say

on a regular basis :D

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. Sounds better than "Jab" (Just Another Bush)

[laststeamtrain]

21. Come & listen to my story 'bout a man...

...Sorry I don't know the story.

:evilgrin:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

22. Obviously, because it sounds "Southern Fried".

[eallen]

23. There's no rhyme or reason to nicknames. Let it be.

[madrchsod]

24. sounds better than jethro?

[Warren Stupidity]

25. DumberAss works for me.

[Beelzebud]

27. Makes him sound like just one of the rednecks.

[DoYouEverWonder]

28. Sure beats calling him

asshole.

[MODemocrat]

30. JEB are the iniials of his full name: John Ellis Bush

I found out about this a while back.

[JCMach1]

31. wrong! it's JEBtm get it straight or face a civil suit....