Posted on 06/17/2015 7:35:10 AM PDT by jimbo123
In a setting that emphasized the Spanish language and Latino culture, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush announced that he is running for president.
Bush, the son of one U.S. president and brother of another, launched his 2016 campaign with a rally and speech at Miami Dade College, whose student body is more than 70 percent Latino.
Speaking in English, and adding some comments in flawless Spanish, Bush vowed make the most vulnerable in U.S. society – the disabled, minorities and women – a priority if he gets to the White House.
He called Florida a fitting place to launch his campaign because “this great and diverse state … looks so much like America,” he said.
The crowd, indeed, was diverse, and the event featured a performance by the daughters of Cuban-American singing icon Willy Chirino.
“We will take command of our future once again in this country,” said Bush, whose campaign logo is “Jeb! 2016.”
“We will lift our sights again, make opportunity common again, get events in the world moving our way again,” said Bush, whose announcement was preceded by a speech by his son, George P. Bush, who is the land commissioner of Texas. His mother, former First Lady Barbara Bush, was in the audience.
“We will take Washington – the static capital of this dynamic country – out of the business of causing problems," Bush said.
Bush stuck to his strategy of speaking highly of his family while also depicting himself as someone who is different from his relatives, who has his own views and lifestyle.
“Long before the world knew my parents' names, I knew I was blessed to be their son,” said Bush. “And they didn’t mind at all that I found my own path. It led from Texas to Miami by way of Mexico."
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Fox and Bush make a mistake in saying Latino. They should say Hispanic because Latino is kind of a slur like hillbilly.
So. My BIG question is whether Jebito is Mexican or Cuban? Does it even make difference as long as he can speak some form of Spanish? Does he speak Castilian Spanish or Tijuana Spanish....or is it Pigeon Spanish/Spanglish....does he have a preference of which illegals to give citizenship to? Cuban, Mexican or the farther south South Americans from varied locales.
One might noticed I asked no question about what he thinks about America. That is because it is plain to me he could give a rat’s patootie about it except to the extent that it can help his many ‘cousins’.
Which nomination is he running for again???? Democrat or Republican? Its hard to keep it straight.
Quite a contrast to what the Trumpster said yesterday! Which approach will the majority respond to?
Jeb will do fine in south Florida; right up to the time Rafael Cruz starts campaigning for his son, Ted. With three candidates of Latino origin, Ted Cruz will win more of those votes than either of the others.
Jeb “Call Me Dolezal” Bush!
“whether Jebito is Mexican or Cuban”
The more important question would seem to be whether he is conservative or just another GOPee moderate sell-out, like so many here throwing around old pejoratives from 2008 and 20012 like “pure” “the perfect is the enemy of the good” et cetera—all the old rhetorical rationalizations for settling for less.
This is a conservative website, or at least that’s what it claims to be.
AS Lincoln put it, you can call a dog’s tail a leg, but that doesn’t make it a leg. John Elliot Bush is no conservative.
But his sycophants here don’t even try to make that claim. They just say, “He’s better than a Democrat.”
We voted, or at least I voted, a straight GOP ticket last fall and we got McConnell, Boehner and a raft of “play it safe, go-along-to-get-along, quasi Republicrat” moderates.
We’ve heard this Jeb drum-beat before, in both 2008 and 2012 when we busted with egg-sucking, weak-knee moderates. Never again, at least not for me.
Jeb Bush will be the Republican nominee. With his power, money and influence it’s a given. And he’ll beat Hillary. I’m not a Jeb fan and I prefer Cruz. Just a prediction by Cry if I Wanna.
You’re right about the basic “conservative” question on Jeb. But I have never, ever seen anything here and in the news that would lead me to believe he has a scintilla of conservatism in his bones. He’s a joke as far as conservatism goes. As for ‘moderate’? I don’t even consider him that seeing as how he wants to destroy our sovereignty and pollute this country with third-world illegals.
The Bush’s must really hate America. They have done what they can to erase everything American.
The question of Bush and conservatism is a foregone conclusion. He is in no way, shape or form that. Neither was his brother, or his father. W’s campaign of “Compassionate Conservatism” which translates into a Republican willing to deal(appease) with Democrats, is the proper description.
My insistence in describing him as Mexican or possibly Cuban is borne out of his penchant for the culture and his more than willingness to destroy this country’s sovereignty because of it. This man has no business governing America. He is better suited to run as El Presidente de Mexico.
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