Posted on 02/16/2013 7:09:33 AM PST by JohnPDuncan
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said he would strive to be like Lyndon Johnson, the Democrat famous for expanding the U.S. welfare state through the "Great Society," if he were elected president.
According to the Miami Herald, Bush made those comments Wednesday night in San Antonio, Florida at Saint Leo University, while speaking about education, immigration, and energy policy.
Bush did not address Johnson's Great Society and War on Poverty programs, about which Ronald Reagan once famously quipped, "We had a war on poverty, and poverty won."
Instead, he was referencing Johnson's mastery of the so-called sausage-making process in Congress.
He vowed to approach the presidency as "master of the Senate," as biographer Robert Caro described Johnson.
“He went and he cajoled, he begged, he threatened, he loved, he hugged, he did what leaders do, which is they personally get engaged to make something happen,’’ Bush said of Johnson. Bush cited Caro's latest book about Johnson, The Passage of Power, which covers the first part of Johnson's presidency.
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Out wit da Bushes.
I am starting to guess Sarah Palin is on the sidelines deciding whether to run as an independent or not.
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Independent Presidential runs don’t produce national winners. It is better to work from within the party to select the most conservative nominee possible.
The last independent to win a state was George Wallace in 1968 with five states [AR, LA, MS, AL and GA], some 9 million plus votes [13.5%] and 45 Electoral Votes.
The one previous to that was Strum Thurmond in 1948 with four states, some 1 million plus votes [2.4%] and 39 Electoral Votes.
LBJ had their FBI files from J Edgar Hoover.
And this was when the “appearance of impropriety” actually mattered.
Jeb Bush is an idiot.
I really liked Jeb when he was my governor in Florida...
I guess the bloom is off the rose...
I think Jeb Bush would be a great President. He won’t be perfect, but certainly better than what we have, and better than Hillary or Bill Clinton. There is better choices out there, but they will be smashed to smithereens by the time the Primaries are over. Maybe if a semi-conservative (though Jeb I don’t know) pretended to be liberal, maybe we would win one, in the same fashion clinton and obama pretended to be centrist.
I think Santorum will be heavily involved in the next go around. Sadly Palin will be faded off into the sunset by then, she maybe part of the cabinet, if the next administration is smart.
GOOD GAWD!!!!!!
Boy, do I wish we could find a candidate with the guts to voice such views. Immigration was intended to benefit the country, not to be the ultimate bank-breaking welfare system.
But I see how it’s trending. The GOP is going to go along with the compassionate amnesty crap, and conservatives who believe we have to do SOMETHING will be swept right along.
“Jeb Bush, please STEP AWAY from the deep end of the candidate pool...get back to the shallow end where you belong.”
Tom Tancredo was one of the few who wanted to deport illegals and he was for limited government too. Hope he runs again. That’s who we need
Answer: Just what we need after the current turkey.
Comment: LBJ and his contemporaries are responsible for initiating the policies leading to the current mess. He was a bad governor.
“Have the last two presidential elections really taught us nothing?”
They have. Because of crossover voting by liberals and the MSM brainwashing the uninformed voter, we will almost certainly never have another conservative candidate. I suspect the best we can do is have an American socialist-lite, like GWB. But I’ll take one of those over what we have now anytime. (Do you really want our nuclear deterrent decreased? Do you really want hundreds of thousands or millions of illegals gaining instant citizenship and access to welfare?)
If we can start another party and get enough Congressmen to agree to cross-over if it wins, then and only then can we have another Reagan.
We also need to stop running the walking dead, like McCain and Dole.
In addition, candidates who poll really poorly and have no chance need to resign early in the primaries. (Yeah, I know, never happen.) As my dad pointed out, when McCain was running, I wasted my primary vote on a wonderful conservative who essentially took 5% of the vote from a more viable but further to the left candidate, who still might have been acceptable.
There’s a bit of gamesmanship and we’re getting beaten consistently because there is nobody like a conservative George Soros, funding the conservative side of the games. If we had that kind of money backing all kinds of conservative grass roots efforts like the liberals do, then we could have another Reagan, or a Palin.
The most ridiculous statement I heard this year.
There is a 100% certainty that Bush would be a terrible President.
The Bush family has shown themselves to be rabid Statists.
The two Bush's destroyed Conservatism.
I am deadly serious when I state that I would vote for the RAT candidate over Jeb. Jeb would follow up No Child Left Behind with , No ILLEGAL Left Behind. Amercia does NOT needy dynasties.
We expect the left to hate our Constitution. The damage done by the Bush's, with regard to limited government, is great.
Jeb would be a destructive, anti-Conservative President.
Yep, I agree with you. And the fact that Karl Rove threw him out of the White House is another positive in his column.
His parents actually called him LBJ Bush when he was younger
Hey Jeb, I won’t vote for you. I would probably not vote for any of your friends either.
Finally, a little honesty from a Bush.
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