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Jeb Bush: 'I don't know' if I'd ever run again, but I'd never do what Trump did to get elected
CNBC Politics ^
| June 7, 2018
| Matthew J. Belvedere
Posted on 09/06/2018 10:53:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Jeb Bush, who unsuccessfully ran for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, told CNBC on Thursday he feels like a "fish out of water" in the current state of divisiveness in America.
Asked if he'd ever consider running for president again, the 66-year-old former Florida governor said: "I don't know. I love policy. I love my country. But this political environment right now, I'm not suited for. To be honest with you. I'm a fish out of water. I can't imagine having to attack someone to make yourself look strong."
In the "Squawk Box" interview, Bush said he did not vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 election and did not vote for Hillary Clinton.
However, Bush said, "I'm not a 'never Trumper.'" He said fellow Republicans should work with and "praise the president when he does good things," such as tax reform and deregulation.
"But when he goes beyond the line, or anybody else does for that matter, you have to stand on principle," he said.
"I don't blame Donald Trump for the cultural malaise that we're in. He's a byproduct of it," Bush said. "The cultural environment has changed."
The division in the U.S. is "dangerous," he argued....
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TOPICS: Florida; Campaign News; Parties; State and Local
KEYWORDS: bush; bushfamily; claponclapoff; fingidiot; jeb; lowenergy; mistertippytoes; pleaseclap; sadsadsad; trump; yeb
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Yes we know you won’t fight, which is why we will never elect you.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Thank you for posting Revelation 3:15-16. I, like many of my American brothers and sisters, feel very grieved over what appears to be evidence of the death throes of our nation because of the evil and envy in the hearts of men and women, who do not realize that all our days on this earth will be few. Soon, we will return to the dust of the ground, like all who have come before us. To spend those short days trying to take what hard working, good people have, to pay for their own opulent lifestyles is a prescription for HELL all around. The lust for the power of God is behind the overturning of our laws and the rotting of our culture. And, what do evil men and women think they will get from that power?..Three things: The ability to enslave, to become wealthy, and to live above the law of God and man themselves without punishment. Their ultimate goal is to eliminate groups of people as they now do to the unborn. No one speaks of that, but, make no mistake, that is in their minds. The haters shout it over our television screens every day from even the mouths of comedians. Some of the press thinks it is the ultimate weapon which will make it the arbiter of the NEW government. I think God has his own plan, yet to be revealed and the answers are all there in the Scripture for anyone to read, should they want to know the end of this story.
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posted on
09/06/2018 11:47:00 PM PDT
by
jazzlite
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He is a Pussy Whipped Mommy’s Boy...
Jebby , does not have the Balls to
do what Donald is doing.
Jeb Bush is a Panty - Waist suck up
and is a slave to the Deep State , Piss On the
Entire Bush Clan , they opened the flood
gates of Mexicans into the USA so piss on all BUSHES
To: LegendHasIt
Jeb would never do what Trump did to get electedget votes. Hes right.
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posted on
09/06/2018 11:48:14 PM PDT
by
jazminerose
(Adorable Deplorable)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Right, JEB!
YOU could NEVER do what Trump did - because YOU are effeminate, spineless and inconsequential.
Oh, you are very good at being an accomplice to the euthanizing of a helpless woman. You’re exceedingly excellent at effecting the mass invasion of MS13 gangsters into our country - and same with child-sex trafficking. You and your war-monger brother are fantastically efficient in getting Americans killed.
But governing the U.S., in a constitutional and culturally conservatively way? No, Jebby - in that endeavor you are an epic FAIL, as is your entire bootlegging Skull-n-Bones clan.
Trump showed the nation what a clueless, used ass wipe you truly are - and thank God he did it so convincingly, thus sparing Americans a third iteration of the Bush “dynasty.”
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posted on
09/06/2018 11:51:14 PM PDT
by
JME_FAN
(If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
To: JME_FAN
Were it not for who his father is, he’d be lucky to be a department manager at Wal-Mart or a mildly successful insurance agent.
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posted on
09/06/2018 11:53:47 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: huckleberry55
Piss On the Entire Bush Clan
Yep, it seems every so called male in that family is a complete POS.
47
posted on
09/06/2018 11:56:27 PM PDT
by
JoSixChip
(He is Batman!)
To: lee martell
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posted on
09/06/2018 11:56:30 PM PDT
by
Reverend Wright
(I am a Putin bot. And I approve this message.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
09/06/2018 11:57:21 PM PDT
by
stars & stripes forever
(Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Jeb could also be a hapless middle school assistant principal, you know, the kind all the kids make fun of.
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posted on
09/06/2018 11:57:42 PM PDT
by
RooRoobird20
("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I see Jeb! more as a shoe salesman ... like Al Bundy
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posted on
09/06/2018 11:59:41 PM PDT
by
JME_FAN
(If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
To: Reverend Wright; 2ndDivisionVet
I can’t imagine standing up on my tippytoes like a third grader, trying to make myself look taller than Donald Trump.
And then I can’t imagine lying about it.
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posted on
09/07/2018 12:00:17 AM PDT
by
Sontagged
(TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
To: RooRoobird20
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posted on
09/07/2018 12:00:32 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: JME_FAN
You forgot Grandpa Bush was a Nazi sympathizer and funded Margaret Sanger’s Planned Parenthood... in the name of White Supremacy.
And Trump gets called racist...
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posted on
09/07/2018 12:04:41 AM PDT
by
Sontagged
(TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Jeb shows once again he has zero consciousness. These are your compassionate conservatives who however cannot find in themselves to forgive Trump and be compassionate with their voters for whatever reproach they have for them.
It is all political to them. They speak of consciousness but these certifiable psychopaths have none
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posted on
09/07/2018 12:06:54 AM PDT
by
JudgemAll
(Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
A million to one that the House of Bush is behind the Bob Woodward/NYT putsch.
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posted on
09/07/2018 12:06:55 AM PDT
by
Sontagged
(TY Lord Jesus for being the Way, the Truth & the Life. Have mercy on those trapped in the Snake Pit!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
09/07/2018 12:14:17 AM PDT
by
RooRoobird20
("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Like asking Michael Spinks if he wants to fight Tyson again.
58
posted on
09/07/2018 12:18:13 AM PDT
by
mindburglar
(I like spelling it Lazers. It looks cooler.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wonderful! (But they wont STFU. And we may Romney- redux ?). I dont wanna rain in your parade but there does seem an endless supply of nutjobs in politics these days
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posted on
09/07/2018 12:28:19 AM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Geez, can’t we scrape this POS off our shoe?
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posted on
09/07/2018 12:44:13 AM PDT
by
anton
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