Posted on 12/14/2004 8:41:20 AM PST by tvn
Gov. Jeb Bush, a devout Catholic, credited the Virgin of Guadaloupe with interceding on his brother George's behalf during the 2000 presidential election.
TALLAHASSEE - Exactly 469 years after the Virgin of Guadalupe was said to have appeared in Mexico, Gov. Jeb Bush was marveling at another act of higher intervention: The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to make his brother president.
That happened four years ago. Monday, Bush, a devout Catholic who met his wife in Mexico, recalled the Dec. 12 manifestation date when a body of unelected officials -- Florida's presidential electors -- certified his brother's recent win by 380,978 votes with little drama.
In 2000, George W. Bush won by a 537-vote margin that plunged Florida into 37 days of divisive bickering and nonstop news coverage. Jeb Bush didn't miss any of that turmoil at all Monday when he mentioned the story of the Virgin Mary's ability to unify.
She is said to have appeared on Dec. 12, 1531, to a peasant on the temple site of an Aztec goddess, uniting Aztec and Catholic culture.
''Four years ago was the culmination, if you recall. . . of a lot of anguish, a lot of tension that isn't my style. I didn't really appreciate all the satellite dishes out here. And the night of the appearance of the Virgin of Guadalupe, on Dec. 12, was the day. That night the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the president,'' the governor said.
''That was the more emotional day, Dec. 12,'' he said. ``This year, the election was over on election night. So we've kind of moved on.''
What I want to know is-how did Jeb end up Catholic?
me too
He married a Cuban girl, right?
Loving a woman will make you do strange things.
He married Columba, whom he met when he was studying in Mexico, and converted to Catholocism.
True enough. He's a Christian as is his brother, doesn't matter the denomination, IMHO.
Gov. Jeb Bush, a devout Catholic, credited the Virgin of Guadaloupe with interceding on his brother George's behalf during the 2000 presidential election.
I knew there was something I didn't like about him.
I would disagree slightly. There are a few denominations out there that I have seen that are just way off base. They're not very popular though.
Yeah...you do have a point. I was referring to the mainstream.
If we can't get the theology right, let's at least try for spelling! ;--)
What BS! BUSH won EVERY recount, even the independent ones done by the left-wing rags after the election...
Same way GWB became Methodist, he converted to his wife's faith.
Y'all got a problem with Catholics?
This is perpetuating the Democrat Myth that the USSC made a decision to elect GWB. The USSC made a decision to require that the State of Florida utilize state election law in effect at the time of the election to determine their election results, rather than the new rules put into effect after the election by SCOFLA.
when a body of unelected officials -- Florida's presidential electors -- certified his brother's recent win by 380,978 votes with little drama.
Another error... the electors were most certainly elected. They were elected by over 3.9M Florida voters on November 2nd.
Thanks; one surely should not put hope in the spell-checkers of this world, but rather in Heaven...
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