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Jeb Bush: I Would Govern Like Lyndon Johnson as President
Breitbart ^
| 15 Feb 2013
| Tony Lee
Posted on 05/15/2014 2:03:41 PM PDT by george76
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."
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amnesty; bush; illegal; illegalimmigrants; illegals; immigrants; immigration; jeb; jebbush; jebbush2016; lyndonjohnson; socialism; uniparty
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To: george76
Is this the onion?
What a goofus.
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posted on
05/15/2014 2:24:10 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
To: george76
What a dumnass. With one statement he can piss off everyone. No one loves LBJ.
To: george76
Here’s how Johnson ruled in a nut shell:
You go along with my spending and I’ll go along with yours.
63
posted on
05/15/2014 2:24:46 PM PDT
by
DManA
To: george76
Thanks for telling us, Jeb. Now get lost...
64
posted on
05/15/2014 2:25:09 PM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: george76
And just like LBJ he would have the blacks voting democrat for another 60 years.
65
posted on
05/15/2014 2:25:36 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
To: george76
Another disaster. Some people never get over being stupid.
66
posted on
05/15/2014 2:26:18 PM PDT
by
mulligan
(I)
To: george76
67
posted on
05/15/2014 2:27:19 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
To: george76
Wow, what an incredibly asinine quote!
Thankfully I think Jeb has just taken himself out of the running with this.
To: george76
LBJ was a white trash thug.
69
posted on
05/15/2014 2:29:11 PM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
To: george76
I'm glad good old Jeb said that he'd govern like the president who expanded the government more than any president with the exception of F. Roosevelt.
But I do wish that he'd just change parties and get it over with.
70
posted on
05/15/2014 2:29:32 PM PDT
by
mojito
(Zero, our Nero.)
To: george76
JB, You have sh*t for brains!
71
posted on
05/15/2014 2:30:03 PM PDT
by
mongo141
(Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
To: george76
i am now 10000% certain i will not vote for jeb.
72
posted on
05/15/2014 2:31:44 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: george76
LBJ replaced a few military advisers in Vietnam with 100,000’s of thousand of troops, micromanaged them into an ineffectual force with high casualties, and managed to lose to a bunch of guys in black pajamas armed with sharpened bamboo sticks.
What’s not to emulate?
Where do I sign up to volunteer for his campaign???
73
posted on
05/15/2014 2:31:46 PM PDT
by
null and void
(When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
To: george76
Just what we need — another Great Society Democrat masquerading as a Republican.
A vote for Jeb is a vote for Great Society II. That’s a hell of a slogan.
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posted on
05/15/2014 2:32:54 PM PDT
by
Maceman
To: null and void
I was told if I voted for Barry Goldwater, we’d have riots in the streets and get into a long, unwinnable war.....Well I voted for Goldwater and darned if they weren’t right.
75
posted on
05/15/2014 2:33:16 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: x1stcav; John Semmens
Did we just get Semmens’d? Made me look...
76
posted on
05/15/2014 2:33:41 PM PDT
by
null and void
(When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
To: latina4dubya
go away already! go, go, go! and take Huckabee with you!And your little dog Toto, too!
77
posted on
05/15/2014 2:34:10 PM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
To: george76
Impossible. LBJ worked his way up through the legislature, building allies.
Jeb has done none of that. The two men are nothing alike.
LBJ was a badass, Jeb is a milquetoast.
78
posted on
05/15/2014 2:34:23 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(....Let It Burn...)
To: george76
I remember LBJ and he was a $%$#@@%^&^%&%^^$%%#@@!!!!!
No vote for Jeb.
79
posted on
05/15/2014 2:34:38 PM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
To: SaxxonWoods
LBJ is Exhibit A as to why Senators make poor Presidents.
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posted on
05/15/2014 2:35:42 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
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