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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....

(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...


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

81 posted on 09/07/2018 3:15:20 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "I am Batman!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Love this video. Luke warm Jeb.


82 posted on 09/07/2018 3:18:53 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Actually Jeb, you never COULD do what Trump did to get elected. Imagine Jeb doing 2-3 rallies a day, 7 days a week? Jeb needs at least 2-3 naps a day, 7 days a week.


83 posted on 09/07/2018 3:24:08 AM PDT by mbrfl (])
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To: Sontagged

...I can’t imagine standing up on my tippytoes like a third grader...

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“Trump may be a faster talker than me, but I’m an inch taller than him! I’ll show him I can’t be pushed around.”


84 posted on 09/07/2018 3:30:40 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: Sontagged

The glory of Trump’s take down of the Bushes is that Bush Senior is alive to witness the total destruction of thei globalist crime family.


85 posted on 09/07/2018 3:33:09 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What a joke. Behind the scenes, Jeb is known as a nasty guy.

Still sulking and complaining.

To be frank, I think if Trump hadn’t run, it wouldn’t have been Jeb, anyway. Probably Cruz would have been the nominee.


86 posted on 09/07/2018 3:55:30 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I’d never do what Trump did to get elected.”

What’s that Jeb, work hard, hold huge rallies, make promises and keep them, speak for the forgotten men and women?


87 posted on 09/07/2018 3:59:41 AM PDT by euram
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Please clap.


88 posted on 09/07/2018 3:59:44 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: lee martell

“That passage from Revelations “

Just one Revelation.


89 posted on 09/07/2018 4:01:24 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fits with my planned comment that he ought to change the “B” in his last name to an “M”


90 posted on 09/07/2018 4:02:22 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Low energy Yeb


91 posted on 09/07/2018 4:04:18 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: dp0622

I think to get to Purgatory you have to follow the yellow brick road. Or is that Oz? I can’t remember.


92 posted on 09/07/2018 4:07:37 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: N. Theknow

GHWB ran on Reagan’s coattails and then undid as many of Reagan’s accomplishments as he could. The deep-state guy led the deep-state CIA. He never was to be trusted.


93 posted on 09/07/2018 4:13:54 AM PDT by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I can’t find Brooklyn from Staten Island :)

I heard say once that it was created to appease those who were terrified of the fire and brimstone OR Heaven and nothing in between.

but what do i know?


94 posted on 09/07/2018 4:17:12 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does he mean telling the truth?


95 posted on 09/07/2018 4:18:12 AM PDT by maddogtiger
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does he mean telling the truth?


96 posted on 09/07/2018 4:18:14 AM PDT by maddogtiger
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Clap, Jebbie, clap, a one handed Mehican cockroach ...


97 posted on 09/07/2018 4:20:03 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Enjoy the SUCK! , 'Rats ..)
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To: poconopundit

I remember, as a child, being extremely uncomfortable when GHWB was talking about the NWO. I didn’t know what it meant but even then, I felt there was something evil and dangerous about his words.


98 posted on 09/07/2018 4:25:15 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The cultural environment changed because the leftists finally unmasked themselves after facing an existential threat to their 40 year democrat rule as the Lizard man had proclaimed after the election of the man who calls himself Barack Hussein Obama II.


99 posted on 09/07/2018 4:31:56 AM PDT by Hotlanta Mike ("itYou can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: LegendHasIt

He means speak the truth.


100 posted on 09/07/2018 4:35:25 AM PDT by Savage Beast (President Trump has remained steadfast!This is leadership!Hold steadfast, America!We shall overcome!)
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