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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My bet is that the people behind the cabal we fall Deep State aren’t spring chickens...
And Jeb Bush is continuing proof, as if it were needed, that Deep State doesn’t hire the front office appearance types for brains.
Bush is half right. He’s part of the problem. But not because he’s 70.
How bout the Bushes GTHO the political stage?
The damage your family has caused, including you
Take Daddy’s NWO and shove it
I suggest Bush GFH
Jeb should leave the political stage because he is a failure and fool, not because of his age.
This is just a transparent shill for his son George P. to move into the limelight. Too bad Jeb. We saw right through him here in Texas. There is no doubt they are going to try to push him onto the national stage. The “youth movement” will be their battle cry.
So he favors Vivek.
I might be agreeable to upper age limits for politicians, but only if we also raise the voting age significantly at the same time.
“The people who need to get off the stage are the life long pols like Bush.”
No kidding. It’s people like Biden who spend their entire adult lives in government who are the problem. To them, government is the be-all, end-all, totality of life. You “voters” are merely useful little bugs every few years to be squashed between elections. And the Dems have fixed that pesky “voter” problem good.
Low energy Yeb! continues to beclown himself.
Ages at death of these early U.S. leaders:
Benjamin Franklin = 84 years old
Thomas Jefferson = 83 years old
John Adams = 90 years old
James Madison = 85 years old
James Monroe = 73 years old
John Q. Adams = 80 years old
This was also in a time where the life expectancy was about 50 years and not having modern medicine or disease prevention or management.
Please clap
If he is part of the problem why is he speaking??
HE is part of the problem-—but that status goes back to when he was 35 or 40.
AGE has NOTHING to do with it.
“Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.”
― George Orwell, 1984
If Jeb! speaks, does anyone care?
If Jeb! speaks in a forest and there’s no one around to hear him, does it make any difference?.......................
Why? Why shouldn’t people 70 to 100 have a voice in government? And I say that as an older millennial.
Probably because that demo is more conservative
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