Posted on 06/29/2015 2:47:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — Nearly two weeks after canceling a campaign event scheduled the morning after the deadly attack on a South Carolina church, Jeb Bush on Monday called the Confederate battle flag a “racist” symbol, reflecting the new Republican normal in a Southern primary state vastly altered by the racially motivated killings.
The flag was one of “the symbols that have divided the South in many ways, the symbols that were used in most recent modern history, perhaps not at the beginning of the time, but the symbols were racist,” Mr. Bush told an interracial crowd of about 200 people at a $300-million pharmaceutical facility here, explaining his decision as the governor of Florida to move the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds to a museum. “And if you are trying to lean forward rather than live in the past, you are trying to eliminate the barriers that create disagreements, and so I did.”
He then applauded Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina “for doing more or less the exact same thing under a lot of pressure.”(continued)
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Jeb is such an idiot, which is why he will probably be the liberal media’s choice. >:-(
Jebbie is a liberal Bushie from Kennebunkport Maine who wants you to believe he is a southerner.
¿Jeb? Bush WILL be the Republican nominee in 2016.
¿Jeb? Bush WILL lose to ¡Hillary! Clinton in 2016.
It is intended and a done deal.
Typical RINO. Doesn’t use the opportunity to bring up the flag and the Civil War and slavery and racism are all tenants of the DEM PARTY!
That is fine, he can be the liberal media’s choice. He will not be the conservative right wing Tea Party vote.
He won’t get mine, either.
¡Jeb! certainly knows who butters his bread.
Which one - sounds like the entire Democrat's base
Yep, president Jeb! Is a done deal. It doesn’t matter how the little people vote. The fix is in and has been since at least back to Daddy Bush’s first election.
“intended and a done deal.”
Yup.
Though it looks like the leghumping media will have a hard time dragging hildabeast’s carcass over the primaries’ finish line.
Agreed.
Well, I think he’ll be the GOPe nominee but I am 99.99% convinced that the PTBs want Pres. Hildabeast and that’s what we’ll have.
The Libtards are really going to appreciate that little ditty ... “be careful what you wish for ...”
I don't really Post much on it, but it could serve to weed out Trespassers. LOL
I already have the Triple Gatling Gun Photo with the Caption “Really, get off my Lawn” Posted.
Right now, it's a Toss up with an image I also found here if a Rainbow Colored Confederate Battle Flag.
Decisions, decisions...
Well, you may be right. Too bad we can’t make a friendly wager. Either way, we lose!
Ha! TOTALLY agree.
The people Yeb Boosh is sucking up to are not going to vote for him. Neither will conservatives. Boosh is a loser no matter how hard the GOPEs/Duplicitous Party dream it to be otherwise.
I’ll wager Jeb would be just fine with flying the flag of Mexico over ours.
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