Posted on 06/29/2015 2:47:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — Nearly two weeks after canceling a campaign event scheduled the morning after the deadly attack on a South Carolina church, Jeb Bush on Monday called the Confederate battle flag a “racist” symbol, reflecting the new Republican normal in a Southern primary state vastly altered by the racially motivated killings.
The flag was one of “the symbols that have divided the South in many ways, the symbols that were used in most recent modern history, perhaps not at the beginning of the time, but the symbols were racist,” Mr. Bush told an interracial crowd of about 200 people at a $300-million pharmaceutical facility here, explaining his decision as the governor of Florida to move the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds to a museum. “And if you are trying to lean forward rather than live in the past, you are trying to eliminate the barriers that create disagreements, and so I did.”
He then applauded Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina “for doing more or less the exact same thing under a lot of pressure.”(continued)
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The GOPe will get their Bush. Book it.
If JEB is the GOP candidate, the Dems could run the town drunk with his hands down some little boy’s pants and win.
won’t have my vote though.
Ditto.
screw you Bush and all your family who have done nothing but destroy the party and helped to destroy this country.
Purty much.
I can sit there with pride knowing that did not vote for him . He is no better than the rest of his family or the Obama’s or the Clintons
Conservatives have no vote. Jeb Bush is a pandering DemoRep that has no allegiance or direction other than doing and saying anything to get himself elected. He has no moral base. He’s not my choice. He’s a Hillary Clinton that happens to be a male.
He better never, ever refer to himself as a Southerner....
There were approximately 4 Confederate Flags - so the Confederate Battle flag of Northern Virginia is racist. Really Jeb Bush what planet did you fall off? No the confederate battle flag is not rascist it represents states rights! Please JEB Bush stop running as a Republican, as you are not a republican, you are no better than jackass that currently occupies 1600 Pennsylvania, a whipped piece of crappola that hates america and everything American!
toast if he thinks he can win the presidency without the south.
Par for the Bush course.
The last 2 rinos we ran gave us a communist kenyan with a history of drug abuse, moslem roots, radical leftist causes and nothing but lies to run on.
Oh, he thinks the South thinks as he does now...
Hey Jeb, do you realize that 80% of Confederate soldiers came from families who had no slaves? Do you really think that those men suffered the way they did for something that didn’t concern them whatsoever?
Since good ol’ Jeb was a governor of one of the states of DIXIE, and there has not been found a disparaging word by him during his governorship about the said flag, there is only one thing left to say.
Jeb Bush is a stinking hypocrite!
Bush might win but without the South. He just lost the South. If he thinks folks will vote for him when the opponent is Hillary. Nope, they just wont vote at all.
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