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JEB BUSH: I WOULD GOVERN LIKE LYNDON JOHNSON AS PRESIDENT
Breitbart ^ | 15 Feb 2013 | Tony Lee

Posted on 04/08/2015 10:09:49 AM PDT by Lazamataz

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said he would strive to be like Lyndon Johnson, the Democrat famous for expanding the U.S. welfare state through the “Great Society,” if he were elected president. According to the Miami Herald, Bush made those comments Wednesday night in San Antonio, Florida at Saint Leo University, while speaking about education, immigration, and energy policy.

Bush did not address Johnson’s Great Society and War on Poverty programs, about which Ronald Reagan once famously quipped, “We had a war on poverty, and poverty won.”

Instead, he was referencing Johnson’s mastery of the so-called sausage-making process in Congress.

He vowed to approach the presidency as “master of the Senate,” as biographer Robert Caro described Johnson.

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I know this is old, but it is worth recycling.

Used to be a dimes worth of difference between the two parties.

Now they seek to perfectly emulate one another outright.

1 posted on 04/08/2015 10:09:49 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz

Shoot me in the head now!!


2 posted on 04/08/2015 10:10:53 AM PDT by shankbear (The tree of Liberty appears to be perishing because there are few patriots willing to refresh it.)
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To: Lazamataz

Disqualified.


3 posted on 04/08/2015 10:11:29 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: Lazamataz

He truly is clueless.


4 posted on 04/08/2015 10:11:41 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Lazamataz

If he is the nominee I ain’t voting


5 posted on 04/08/2015 10:12:13 AM PDT by GeronL (CLEARLY CRUZ 2016)
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RE: JEB BUSH: I WOULD GOVERN LIKE LYNDON JOHNSON AS PRESIDENT

Well thanks Jeb, you just triply confirmed my decision not to support your candidacy.


6 posted on 04/08/2015 10:12:30 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Lazamataz

“I’ll have them ******* voting Rockefeller/country club Republican for 100 years.”


7 posted on 04/08/2015 10:13:03 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://www.tedcruz.org/donate/)
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To: boycott

I really don’t care if he ‘nuanced’ it up to mean how Johnson governed as a style. If you are expressing admiration for the architect of the Welfare State, you are not ‘the opposition party’.


8 posted on 04/08/2015 10:13:14 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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Will he keep a mistress like LBJ?

Would you hit on her?

9 posted on 04/08/2015 10:13:20 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Lazamataz

Hey Jeb...take up knitting and save your money.


10 posted on 04/08/2015 10:13:24 AM PDT by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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To: Lazamataz

So why isn’t Jebbie running as a Dem?


11 posted on 04/08/2015 10:13:28 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: Lazamataz

Oh? Like the segregationist LBJ?


12 posted on 04/08/2015 10:13:33 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: Lazamataz

Oh good grief. The stupidity just keeps coming.


13 posted on 04/08/2015 10:13:47 AM PDT by Ray76 (Obama says, "Unlike my mum, Ruth has all the documents needed to prove who Mark's father was.")
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To: Lazamataz

And the jokes just write themselves....


14 posted on 04/08/2015 10:14:02 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: boycott

“He truly is clueless.”

He has no intention of staying in the race. He is raising money for globalist NWO/NAU draft pick #2, and it will be serious dough.


15 posted on 04/08/2015 10:14:02 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Lazamataz

A Bush who thinks he’s Hispanic and empathizes with LBJ.

Are you sure you GOP guys really want to push this one?


16 posted on 04/08/2015 10:14:05 AM PDT by Resettozero
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So, this is the America Jeb Bush wants ....


17 posted on 04/08/2015 10:14:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Lazamataz

This guy is a dress-up clown.

Even the left wouldn’t vote for Lyndon Johnson today.

I don’t believe they’d even vote for John Kennedy, if he maintained the same worldview he had in 1960.


18 posted on 04/08/2015 10:14:17 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Lazamataz

so....he’d lead us into a military quagmire AND destroy the society.

Swell.


19 posted on 04/08/2015 10:14:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: lodi90
So why isn’t Jebbie running as a Dem?

He is.

He's running as the flavor of Democrat labeled "Republican".

20 posted on 04/08/2015 10:14:48 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly become a means to censorship of dissent.)
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