Posted on 04/09/2014 9:46:59 AM PDT by Theoria
The former Florida governor sparks a debate about immigrationand about the party's 2016 prospects.
With just nine months to go until prospective presidential candidates must declare their intentions, the debate among Republicans is heating up.
In a remarkably frank talk on Sunday, Jeb Bush made it clear that his campaignif there is onewould challenge the tea party's hold on his party. About illegal immigrants, he said, "Yes, they broke the law; but it's not a felony, it's an act of love." Because it is an illegal act, "There should be a price paid." But "it shouldn't rile people up that people are actually coming to provide for their families." Message to anti-immigrant zealots: Abandon your "harsh political rhetoric" and demonstrate some compassion for fellow human beings who enter our country in search of a better life.
The former governor of Florida was equally blunt about education policy. The latest tea-party rallying cry is hostility to the Common Core K-12 standards, which these critics see as the latest evidence of federal encroachment. Mr. Bush refuses to go along: "I just don't feel compelled to run for cover when I think this is the right thing to do for our country." In remarks at public hearings on the Common Core, he said: "I understand there are those opposed to the standards. But what I want to hear from them is more than just opposition. I want to hear their solutions for the hodgepodge of dumbed-down state standards that have created group mediocrity in our schools." Right now, he said, he is hearing only "criticisms and conspiracy theories," which are "easy attention grabbers" but do nothing to solve our problems.
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There is a considerable divide: the Tea Party is serious and patriotic, while JEB’s a walking RINO dildo, personified.
A Jeb Bush candidacy will be the end of the Republican Party. It could very well bring a 3rd party into prominence.
Same with Huck, Christie or Kasic. But Jeb leads this heap o dung.
I was thinking about a good friend of mine whose wife is English and they have two children. Getting her green card was a nightmare ordeal for the two of them. Even with their two children born here in the U.S. She had to leave to go back to England every few months and reapply for a visa even though they were married.
Once the Green card came through she has lived her ever since.
But to paraphrase the still popular Jane Fonda Turner (or whatever her current name is), if Jesse Jackson knew Jebbie’s true politics, he would get down on his knees and beg Jebbie to switch parties.
Bushies = big grubment Liberal DemocRats.
And we’re told to just keep voting Uniparty. That’ll solve everything.
When you think about it though, Jebbie could win because his bizarre ideas are shared by tens of millions of uninformed Americans.
Common Core and NCLB are purely about marketing for the Bushes. The idea is to show that they “care about education,” because opinion polls have shown many voters claim that “education” is one of the issues they care about most, whatever the hell that means. The actual content of these schemes is secondary. It’s about political branding.
That’s how soulless and mindless a man like Jeb is. Listen to the brain dead, boilerplate, corporate speak responses he gives to questions about it. This is not a man who thinks hard about anything. You can’t confront Jeb with criticism of Common Core like he cares about what it actually is. In his tiny mind, this is a box that he has to check to get elected, that’s all. He probably knows less about it than most freepers.
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