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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” 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.””
Getting tired of how the Bushies all ran scared of mommy.
His mother died on Tuesday. Glad to know he’s still got time for political horse$hit while his mother’s body lays in a coffin.
Jeb Who?
Oh that Jeb that couldn’t win a sack race even when the whole establishment was behind him! LOL!
jeb. got any of those bowls left?
This Texan hope to send your little P back to Florida in November.
Then why don't you take the little P back.
+1
JEB your mothers body isn’t even cold yet and you have to say something stupid and offensive. Go mourn in private and leave us alone.
Yes. And to think I pulled the lever for W twice.
I have no respect for the Bush "dynasty" anymore.
Jeb is such a moron that he doesn't "get" that for all of the $hit thrown at Trump, and his OWN BROTHER that he would have been treated even more savagely.
Where was he when his brother was being torn to shreds?
Jeb WAS a good governor of FL.
He *could* have run a clean and upright campaign.
But his incessant hatred of Trump blinded him.
100 million down the drain, and for what?
Now he is hated by everyone, and he's forever tarnished his family name. (If it wasn't already)
100 million down the drain, and for what?
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That...and an inflated sense of entitlement....will buy you an ignoble defeat and the lifetime nickname “Low Energy Jeb”.
Trump shredded Jeb in those debates. He’s never got over it.
He served two four-year terms. I don’t know when he turned into a putz, though. Looking at him now, you’d think some funeral home is missing its bookkeeper.
LOL, that’s hilarious!
LOL!
Low energy Jeb!
Jeb, these people paid you for a speech. Could you please have the decency to give them their money’s worth instead of recycling 2016 campaign speeches?
Agreed!
Yeesh, is Jeb a republican or a Never-Trumper?
He has to re-think his priorities.
If the current crop of "republicans" in power had given Trump support and honest to God "conservative" bills, Trump would have GLADLY signed on!
What the hell were "republicans" running on all these years?
Trump is your wildest dream to get some actual conservative things done.
And they would have reaped the rewards in spades.
Instead, now they are looking at losing everything.
Over pettiness.
Damn, can this man ever stop digging that hole? Does he REALLY not know how silly and stupid he has become?
#low energy Bush
Allow the very soldiers who put their very lives on the line be mercilessly attacked by the media?
“Please clap.”
The “Fredo” of the Bush family.
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