JEB BUSH: I WOULD GOVERN LIKE LYNDON JOHNSON AS PRESIDENT

Breitbart ^ | 15 Feb 2013 | Tony Lee

[Lazamataz]

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.”

Instead, he was referencing Johnson’s mastery of the so-called sausage-making process in Congress.

He vowed to approach the presidency as “master of the Senate,” as biographer Robert Caro described Johnson.

[MinuteGal]

Looks like he's the mental runt of the Bush litter.

Leni

[duffee]

This is not satire? He said that?

[AmericanVictory]

Does this mean that he will make a fortune on businesses that are highly regulated by federal government in office, like broadcasting and banking, and then explain that it’s because his wife is such a good businessperson?

[Yaelle]

"Ooh la la, where do I sign up??"

[CdMGuy]

Three words: No More Bushes.

We have already had two too many.

[Fast Moving Angel]

So when does W speak up and disown this black sheep brother?

[AFreeBird]

Huh? Say what!

Oh sure, cause LBJ was a real peach.

Who the hell picks these idiots?

Shave that kitty. - No more Bush!

[mjp]

Jeb Bush said he would strive to be like Lyndon Johnson

Why am I not surprised that he would speak like an elitist who wants to control the masses by making them believe that they need the government to protect them, so they accept being controlled.

[GenXteacher]

Anyone who wants to emulate Lyndon Johnson should never be elected for dogcatcher.

[TBP]

Yes, that's what REPUBLICANS need in their nominee.

OTOH, many Republicans at the time supported Johnson over their own nominee.

[chesley]

Well, I sometimes say that I will sit out an election, but I always hold my nose and swing on the elephant’s tail anyway.

Not if this is so and Jeb is the candidate. I can’t say that LBJ was a worse president than Carter or Obama. don’t even see how that is possible.

But he did long-term structural damage to the USA, and no one who holds him up as a model will receive my vote.

[Clintonfatigued]

Another reason to vote against Bush in the primary. I am sick of that family and want to part of them. If it hadn’t been for W., Obama would never have been elected. Of all the Republicans running, Bush is my last choice. Even Mitt Romney would be a better nominee and I didn’t vote for him in the primary.

[jwalsh07]

His idle is the worst POTUS ever. And that includes the Marxist moron.

[Lazamataz]

At this point, in the Republican party, it is no longer a struggle between Progressives and Conservatives.

At this point it is a struggle between Progressives and SANE PEOPLE.

[Vendome]

[amnestynone]

Good then he and his GOP establishment crony capitalist friends can just pay the taxes that they and his liberal gentry friends deserve to pay because of their support of big government.

[Impy]

A CONSERVATIVE who could ram through legislation like LBJ would be wecolmed by me. But Jeb? I think not.

[clearcarbon]

"JEB BUSH: I WOULD GOVERN LIKE LYNDON JOHNSON AS PRESIDENT"

Jeb suffers from political disorientation. That's sad.

[kingattax]

the “LBJ “ ploy is a pander to black Americans.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”A CONSERVATIVE who could ram through legislation like LBJ would be wecolmed by me. But Jeb? I think not”

See you at the signing!

SJB remembers that one.