I am so pissed off at Evander Holyfield for not knocking Mitt Romney the fuck out with maximum force. It would have been one of the great moments of all time, especially if he'd had a great tagline while doing it (I can't come up with the perfect one, so I'm not going to try).
To the OP, I bet it's just that he hasn't been in your awareness as long. I don't think I actively wanted to punch GW in 1999.
I don't think I actively wanted to punch GW in 1999.
I'm pretty sure I did. The baffling thing to me about all that "have a beer with" stuff was that W always struck me as an insufferable asshole.
Oh hey, I can tie the whole thread together: Lately I've been doing this heavy bag training*, and one of the instructors has the group do "anger management", in the sense each person in turn of naming a person they'd like to punch, and then the whole group beats the shit out of their bags. I don't really hold personal grudges, so I pretty much go with Dick Cheney every time.
*when I was doing spin training for the century in Palm Springs, I'd watch their workouts and really liked the combo of learning boxing techniques and just generally going like hell for 45 minutes: 20 seconds of combinations, then 40 seconds of squat thrusts, 20 seconds of combinations, 40 seconds of pushups, etc.
I think Jeb as governor of Florida was not quite as punchable as W. as governor as Texas. Definitely not as punchable as Rick Scott, at least.
The "have a beer thing' (aside from his being a dry drunk) is because he was a goddamn frat boy. Of course it seems easy to have a drink with a frat boy! Doesn't mean it's a good idea though.
Speaking of punchability, LB, which justices got the Maryland county income tax case wrong?
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/13-485#writing-13-485_OPINION_3
People in recovery love to tack the "dry drunk" label on people who are infamously unpleasant or disliked; I'm sure some are drunks, dry and otherwise, but just as it is impossible for every rumored-to-be-gay famous person to be gay indeed, most famous jackasses are probably just jackasses.
I am with the OP on the ranking of punchability, with George HW, asshole though he was, hardly at all punchable.
This Nation cover (was it by Tom Tomorrow?) is from 2000 and captured it nicely, I think.
To Jeb's credit, I don't think he would actually be a worse president than his brother. So he's got that going for him
IDK. I'd punch Jeb Bush.
I'd punch him twice. Once for being a weaselly asshat, and once for being GWB's brother.
I'm sure he is very punchable. His face just doesn't scream "punch me" the way W's does.
I get more of an "accidentally" trip him as he walks by from Jeb than a punch him in the face (which certainly was what GWB was calling out for.)
To Jeb's credit, I don't think he would actually be a worse president than his brother.
Left to his own devices, perhaps, but what about to the extent he has to accommodate the contemporary Republican party to win?
AIMHSHB, I met Jeb when he visited my high school, and boyhowdy did I ever want to punch him. I have vague memories of my newspaper staff (we were in the press room) trying to help me calm down once that fucker had left.
I think that was the same year that I ran into his first (I believe) lieutenant governor at the airport. I wanted to punch him, too.
But I'll say this much for Jeb--he improved FL's hurricane readiness, at least as far as the public could tell. The Katrina/FEMA disaster would not have happened on his watch.
16.3: Didn't FEMA also pour a lot more money into Florida than Louisiana? Possibly because of swing state status?