Topic category: Partisan Politics
Will Jeb Bush Finally Follow His Father's Example and Accept Donald Trump's Leadership?
George H.W. Bush became president because he stopped accusing Ronald Reagan of voodoo economics and backed him for President as his running mate.
That act of humility led to his two terms as vice president and one term as president and his son George's two terms as president.
Is there enough humility and graciousness in his son Jeb, the failed president aspirant backing natural born Canadian Ted Cruz's now futile presidential campaign.
do you remember when a reporter posed the following question to then President George H.W. Bush: "With all due respect, Nancy Pelosi has called you incompetent, a liar, the emperor with no clothes and, as recently as yesterday, dangerous. How will you work with someone who has such little respect for your leadership and who is third in line to the presidency?"
President Bush's replied:
"I’ve been around politics a long time. I understand when campaigns end and I know when governing begins. And I’m going to work with people of both parties. You know, look, people say unfortunate things at times. But if you hold grudges in this line of work, you’re never going to get anything done. And my intention is to get some things done, and soon—we’re start visiting with her Friday with the idea of coming together."
Peggy Noonan deemed that reply "the sound of political graciousness" (http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2014/11/03/how-to-lose-and-win-graciously/).
Jeb's been around politics a long time too.
Jeb has been embarrassed by the amazing rise of Donald Trump.
Will Jeb honor his dad by following his example and support Trump, now the only Republican presidential aspirant who can win nomination on the first ballot?
It will require both political graciousness and energy.
Jeb backing Trump now might be just what his son George's political career needs.
Can Jeb do it?
If so, will he do it?
If not, will he ultimately wish he had paid closer attention to the example of his own dad?
Michael J. Gaynor
Biography - Michael J. Gaynor
Michael J. Gaynor has been practicing law in New York since 1973. A former partner at Fulton, Duncombe & Rowe and Gaynor & Bass, he is a solo practitioner admitted to practice in New York state and federal courts and an Association of the Bar of the City of New York member.
Gaynor graduated magna cum laude, with Honors in Social Science, from Hofstra University's New College, and received his J.D. degree from St. John's Law School, where he won the American Jurisprudence Award in Evidence and served as an editor of the Law Review and the St. Thomas More Institute for Legal Research. He wrote on the Pentagon Papers case for the Review and obscenity law for The Catholic Lawyer and edited the Law Review's commentary on significant developments in New York law.
The day after graduating, Gaynor joined the Fulton firm, where he focused on litigation and corporate law. In 1997 Gaynor and Emily Bass formed Gaynor & Bass and then conducted a general legal practice, emphasizing litigation, and represented corporations, individuals and a New York City labor union. Notably, Gaynor & Bass prevailed in the Second Circuit in a seminal copyright infringement case, Tasini v. New York Times, against newspaper and magazine publishers and Lexis-Nexis. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed, 7 to 2, holding that the copyrights of freelance writers had been infringed when their work was put online without permission or compensation.
Gaynor currently contributes regularly to www.MichNews.com, www.RenewAmerica.com, www.WebCommentary.com, www.PostChronicle.com and www.therealitycheck.org and has contributed to many other websites. He has written extensively on political and religious issues, notably the Terry Schiavo case, the Duke "no rape" case, ACORN and canon law, and appeared as a guest on television and radio. He was acknowledged in Until Proven Innocent, by Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson, and Culture of Corruption, by Michelle Malkin. He appeared on "Your World With Cavuto" to promote an eBay boycott that he initiated and "The World Over With Raymond Arroyo" (EWTN) to discuss the legal implications of the Schiavo case. On October 22, 2008, Gaynor was the first to report that The New York Times had killed an Obama/ACORN expose on which a Times reporter had been working with ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief.
Gaynor's email address is gaynormike@aol.com.