Posted on 12/07/2023 6:54:06 AM PST by Red Badger
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called on Wednesday for older Americans to pass the political torch to a new generation, saying that it’s up to a new cohort of leaders to change the country’s “toxic political climate.”
“As a 70-year-old person, I’m part of the problem,” Bush said at a luncheon at Miami’s Jungle Island hosted by the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. “It’s time for my generation to get off the stage politically.”
Bush, who served eight years as Florida governor before launching an ill-fated bid for the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential nomination, did not point fingers at any specific political figure or candidate in his remarks. He said that members of both parties deserved blame for playing into ideological extremes and using hyperbolic rhetoric.
“The people that say the most outrageous things get more followers on Twitter,” he said, referring to the social media site now known as “X.” “They don’t want to serve, they don’t want to solve problems. They’re there because they want to be a Kim Kardashian political figure.”
Asked by one attendee about the politics of Florida’s “current governor” — Republican Ron DeSantis — Bush declined to address that part of the question and advised that young people get involved in public life on their own.
DeSantis, 45, has cultivated a reputation for years as a hardline conservative who has waged political and policy wars against what he describes as liberal or leftist ideology in education, business and government. In doing so, he’s earned criticism from Democrats and some Republicans who say he is pushing the GOP toward a right-wing ideological extreme.
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I agree with this statement but not because he's seventy.
BTW, does this mean that age discrimination is okay?
Any way to bash Trump.
He is just butthurt because his protégée sucked at his campaign just like he did.
Please clap. I am younger.
FOAD Jeb.
Yeb! We need to purge the RINO and poseurs of any age from the Republican Party. We’re done with the Bush, Rove, McNoName, Romney, Ryan, McConnell, McDaniels, Cheney, Flake, Sasse, Cornyn, Linda Graham wing of the atherosclerotic Republican party. MAGA! Trump 2024. Bring back the stable genius.
JEB! is indeed part of the problem. Hats off to him for identifying this problem.
Good lord - STFU jeb jeb.
Older people aren’t the problem. Morons like you are the problem at any age!
Sit down and Shut UP, Jeb.
One of the happiest days was when YOU dropped out of the 2016 race.
He was a part of the problem way before he turned seventy.
“As a 70-year-old person, I’m part of the problem,” Bush said
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He was low energy and short on imagination long before he got to be 70 years old.
Take a hike Jeb, you and your New World Order Globalist clan
He is such an idiot
No problem worth his dad running for reelection at age 69
Please clap—— 👏
As one my colleagues at work used to say: “What a MAROON!”
I have no problem with a 70 year old politician. The people who need to get off the stage are the life long pols like Bush.
Exactly.
George Bush Sr was, what, 64 when he ran for Prez??
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