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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Used to be a dimes worth of difference between the two parties.
Now they seek to perfectly emulate one another outright.
Shoot me in the head now!!
Disqualified.
He truly is clueless.
If he is the nominee I ain’t voting
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.
“I’ll have them ******* voting Rockefeller/country club Republican for 100 years.”
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’.
Would you hit on her?
Hey Jeb...take up knitting and save your money.
So why isn’t Jebbie running as a Dem?
Oh? Like the segregationist LBJ?
Oh good grief. The stupidity just keeps coming.
And the jokes just write themselves....
“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.
A Bush who thinks he’s Hispanic and empathizes with LBJ.
Are you sure you GOP guys really want to push this one?
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.
so....he’d lead us into a military quagmire AND destroy the society.
Swell.
He is.
He's running as the flavor of Democrat labeled "Republican".
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