Posted on 08/24/2015 11:28:36 AM PDT by jimbo123
Jeb Bush makes a stop near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas, on Monday, just days after Democrats railed the Republican presidential candidate for defending his use of the term "anchor babies" while talking about illegal immigration.
Bush -- seeking a reputation as a moderate Republican when it comes to immigration policy -- has hopes to help woo Hispanic voters. But Democrats are pouncing on his use of the term -- which many find offensive -- to paint him as disingenuous.
Hillary Clinton joined Democratic groups and some Latinos in condemning his comments last week.
"How about 'babies,' 'children,' or 'American citizens,'" Clinton tweeted, responding to Bush getting testy with a reporter and asking the press to give him a "better" word to use.
She later retweeted the same thing, but in Spanish.
Many Hispanic Republicans, however, aren't concerned about Bush losing momentum. In conversations with more than half a dozen Hispanics who have an influential voice in Republican politics, almost all of them agreed that the term is incredibly offensive, but none considered it a setback for the former Florida governor.
"I think he should have said just children or babies, but the fact of the matter is, I think he pushed back hard on the fact that it's not about rhetoric, it's about policy," said Republican strategist Leslie Sanchez.
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CNN uh no
They wouldn’t get upset with the term if it wasn’t accurate.
Boring as hell.
Amazing, the outrage....but nothing from these libs on the term ‘chopped up babies’ by planned parenthood???
Exactly.
I heard a good one on Red Eye this weekend (Credit Joanne Nosuchinsky)....ANCHOR =
Another
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By what stretch of the imagination, or distortion of the English language, could the term be deemed in any way inaccurate? I don't even get that.
“Clinton tweeted, responding to Bush getting testy “
Joyful turtle pulls his head in.
Trump would tell her to frig off.
make em all legal there Jeb ya dumb ass.
Invite tens of millions more of the berry pickers in for our welfare bennies there stupid.
An American on welfare is still living at a rate that is better than 95+ percent of the rest of the world population.
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