Posted on 11/17/2015 6:19:21 PM PST by markomalley
Jeb Bush may be low-energy, but when it comes to Syrian refugees, he isn’t low-empathy. Unlike nearly all of his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination, Bush said Tuesday that he would not support efforts to end refugee resettlement.
“The answer to this is not to ban people from coming,” Bush told Bloomberg Television’s With All Due Respect. “The answer is to lead, to resolve the problem in Syria.”
Bush emphasized that he wanted any refugees resettled in the United States to be rigorously vetted — which is already standard policy in the States — but said support for refugees was “a noble tradition in our country for many years” and should not be eliminated.
On Sunday, the presidential candidate said that aid to refugees should be focused on persecuted Christians. He clarified his position in the Bloomberg TV interview. “There's no discrimination to simply say that you want to protect religious minorities that are being exterminated,” he said.
But discriminating against non-Christian refugees is a very popular position among Bush’s rivals. On Tuesday, Ohio governor John Kasich joined a long list of Republican governors hoping that Obama will revise the inscription on the Statue of Liberty to read “Don’t give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of secret ISIS fighters.”
Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are both pushing legislation to suspend the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the United States. Carly Fiorina, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Rick Santorum have all shouted their support for similar measures from the political sidelines. New Jersey governor Chris Christie announced Monday that he would not even allow Syrian “orphans under 5 [years old]” into America.
"Bush’s brave stance against his party’s more xenophobic tendencies should give him a boost in the polls" ... is a sentence that only a political analyst who just woke up from a long coma could write.
Lead in Syria like your dad and brother in Iraq Jeb? Huh?
HA
Seriously, every few days Jeb pops up to remind everyone why he would be a lousy president. He would do better in the polls if he would wear a ball gag all day.
Jeb Bush (D), running for President, will challenge Hitlary in the upcoming democrat primaries.
For an encore, he’ll be promoting late term abortions.
Mr. niteowl77
Whatever
He really doesn’t want the GOP nomination....does he! LOL
Well at least he revealed how he would govern before he got elected.... (not that he will)
He jumped the shark when he declared as a Presidential candidate, and he showed himself as a weakass back in 1999 when he threw Ward Connerly under the bus.
Jeb
I want my 2 cents back,,,no more money period !
even if Bush somehow becomes the nominee I would NEVER EVER vote for him.
That’s Jeb 3% and dropping Bush.
Idiot.
Mr. Potatohead once again opens his irrelevant mouth.
TRANSLATION: More open borders and more war.
Jeb Bush murdered Terri Schiavo.
buh bue Yeb
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