Jeb Bush: ‘It’s Not An American Value To Allow People To Stay In The Shadows’

AP ^ | April 11, 2014

[maggief]

With a single phrase of compassion for immigrants in the U.S. illegally, Jeb Bush has prompted questions about his viability as a potential presidential contender and underscored how divisive the immigration issue remains for the Republican Party.

The former Florida governor sparked a conservative furor this week when he described illegal immigration in an interview as an “act of love” by people trying to provide for their families.

Backing Bush are some of the GOP’s most powerful insiders and financiers, who are hoping the party can woo Hispanic voters and rebound from Mitt Romney’s damaging “self-deportation” rhetoric in 2012.

“The worst thing that can happen to a political party is not for voters to decide they don’t like you,” said Alex Castellanos, a GOP consultant and former Romney adviser. “It’s for voters to decide you don’t like them. And that’s where the Republican Party is right now.”

Other GOP lawmakers and conservative activists, however, are cringing over Bush’s remarks, which triggered vocal opposition and concerns about “amnesty.”

[matt1234]

So Jeb is doubling down on stupid. What a fool.

[BeadCounter]

Kwik Note, saw Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama saying it looks like a deliberate attempt to collapse the immigration system by letting all in. Up at drudge now, I always miss these stories here.

[Theodore R.]

A fool already pre-endorsed by Texans through his son

[lentulusgracchus]

Sure it is an "American value", Jebbie ...... a value propounded and practiced by your big-rich Special Friends who support the RiNO superstructure.

Liar.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art.] ... GOP’s most powerful insiders and financiers, who are hoping the party can woo Hispanic voters ...

No, they don't "hope" ..... there is no chance the party can "woo" Hispanic voters, with Obama's zampoliti and apparatchiki standing on every street corner handing out goodies, and Paul Krugman defecating in today's New York Slimes that evil ugly Republicans just hate people and don't want them to get that Esau's mess of pottage the 'Rats are passing out.

Big-rich Republicans just want the benefit of breaking down American wage and salary structures so they can profit onanistically and perpetually, while simultaneously being protected from the deadly ramifications of one-party Marxist-Leninist government by their wealth and pull.

[Kozak]

They are free to enjoy the sunshine in Mexico, or where ever else they snuck into the US from.

[RichInOC]

Bush 2016: I Want To Commit An Act Of Love On You.

[TADSLOS]

Americans are living under the dark shadow of FEDGOV, Jeb.

[Liz]

Thanks for the reference-—the review is sensational.

[Liz]

It's bad enough we've got twisted, puffed up liberal elites, like Biden, who can only "feel good about themselves" thinking they, themselves, personally keep all blacks out of chains......we don't need conservatives prancing around like pretentious liberal fools.

The job of the people we elect is to protect us and our country. It's not to establish themselves as messiahs in their own minds.

Amen and amen.

[Jane Austen]

Jeb does not sound normal. He prefers foreign criminals to honest Americans. He obviously does not like America. His words alone should disqualify him from being onsidered for POTUS.

[sarasmom]

Jeb Bush talking about a man trying to feed his family...
Terri Shiavo’s father, a USA citizen, just wanted to provide his daughter, also a USA citizen, with food and water,the money for which she was previously awarded in a medical lawsuit, but Jeb decided to back off and wash his hands...because intentionally executing a disabled USA citizen via forcible starvation and dehydration was polling way better than simple human compassion, in his opinion.

Jeb Bush can go to hell quietly or publically.
Useless as a human being, but priceless as an example of how evil professional politicians are.

[Chgogal]

So Jeb, it's OK for illegals to break all kinds of Federal and State laws, but the Bundy’s, LEGAL American citizens for generations who have cattle grazing on property that they claim is State Property, have Federal snipers threatening them. WTF?

[Pelham]

In a perfect world a traitor like Jeb Bush would be stripped of his citizenship and deported to Mexico.

Assuming that they would take him, Mexico has a history of despising traitors.

[Pelham]

"Jeb’s “Mexico First” policy is an insult to conservatives Americans."

I think that's what you meant.

[Pelham]

+1

[Pelham]

“I’ll tell you who’s in the “shadows.” People whose neighborhoods have been invaded. I saw my own neighborhood transform, as more and more apartments were changed to security buildings, more and more homes adding bars on the doors and windows. Take a stroll at night? We wouldn’t dare. We huddle inside.”

Terry Anderson couldn’t have said it better.

[Pelham]

http://tinyurl.com/q9cq9xa

In a Senate speech, Sessions said:

“Our law enforcement system is in a state of collapse, and it’s a deliberate plan by the president of the United States, and it’s wrong. And, people need to be aware of it and need to stand up to it and I believe the American people are beginning to do so.”

Sen. Sessions rebuked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Vice President Joe Biden for their pro-amnesty efforts:

“So, you come into the country illegally and the attorney general of the United States declares that these individuals have a civil right to amnesty. How can this possibly be: the chief law enforcement officer in America?

“Vice President Biden recently said, quote: ‘You know, 11million people live in the shadows; I believe they’re already American citizens.’ Eleven million undocumented aliens are already Americans? Goodness. The vice president of the United States would make such a statement. It’s stunning beyond belief.

[Rummyfan]

Any politician who uses stay in the shadows or living in the shadows should get a smack in the face. THEY ARE NOT IN THE SHADOWS! They are demonstrating in the streets, congregating at Home Depot, appearing in the media, etc etc etc. No other country in the world puts up with this nonsense.

[mdmathis6]

You know, it’s about time that folks like Sessions should be attatching the term...Traitor...to his described actions of the Executive branch. A president deliberately attempting to collapse our law enforcement system is a traitor!