Posted on 04/20/2018 3:28:47 PM PDT by conservative98
Wednesday at Elmhurst College in Oak Brook, IL, former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL) called on voters to stop rewarding politicians who used derogatory characterizations “to make themselves look better.”
Bush said, “Here is the dirty secret, politics is embedded in our culture. We are our culture. The interaction of all of us together defines our culture and our culture is more vulgar then it once was. Our culture allows people to act in ways that thirty years ago would never be allowed in politics. Our culture is more reality TV based, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that our politics is that way.”
He added, “Voters should penalize rather than reward politicians, irrespective of their party, that use racist language or call people Nazis or disparage the disabled or make fun of people in order to push someone down to make themselves look better. That should be a penalty. You should be in a penalty box rather than getting rewards for that.”
After telling a story about Trump calling him a name during the 2016 campaign, Bush continued, “The first step is to change the language around political discourse and get it back to something at your own kitchen table you could tolerate. At least in my kitchen table, I could promise you if I talked like the people I hear on television today talk, my mother would have gotten her board out and whipped my butt, which she did occasionally.”
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You tell’em! Tippy-toes.
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Definitely MENSA material!
This bum cannot even zip it during the week his mother died. What a jerk.
Shouldn’t he be in mourning this week ?
“Talk about an empty suit....this guy is a nonentity.”
Job and Hillary should form a club. Maybe call it The Deplorable Losers Club....
Oh Jebby please please clap for me..even if I have to give big bucks just please clap for one, just one time pretty please
Jeb was a good governor, as I recall. Failing to follow his father and big brother into the presidency seems to have made him bitter and self-destructive.
Repubs like Jeb, Flake and McCain always know how to get favorable press.
I bet Jeb Bush would have no problem with Donald Trump being called derogatory names.
Whenever I see people like him in the news, I am reminded how grateful I am to God that we didn’t get someone like Jeb Bush as president.
If Bush had two terms as president, he would NEVER have accomplished the domestic and foreign successes that Trump has accomplished in a years time.
Dude......your mom just died.
WTF?!?
“Failing to follow his father and big brother into the presidency seems to have made him bitter and self-destructive.”
Like Hillary, he felt he was entitled and smarter than the rest of us.
I feel exactly the same way.
Exactly.
What the heck?
Looks like Andrew Mc Cabe, wonder if they’re related?
“How could someone who has so much respect for the office schmooze with the likes of a Clinton who sullied that office so profoundly?”
Because they’re all out of the same bucket of excrement!
Jeb just grates on me. So happy to watch Trump make a cuck out of him.
It went even deeper when W never opened his mouth during the Obama years, even when Obama blamed Bush for everything.
Now W can’t keep his mouth shut. He is just another swamp creature after all, like his daddy and brother.
W43 even turned out to be smarter than Jeb...
Yup, and that was when I finally opened my eyes and I vowed never to vote Bush again, any Bush. If Trump had not run and candidates were Jeb and Hillary, I probably would have only voted local if I were going to vote at all.
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