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Jeb Bush: ‘It’s Not An American Value To Allow People To Stay In The Shadows’
AP ^ | April 11, 2014

Posted on 04/11/2014 5:57:59 AM PDT by maggief

With a single phrase of compassion for immigrants in the U.S. illegally, Jeb Bush has prompted questions about his viability as a potential presidential contender and underscored how divisive the immigration issue remains for the Republican Party.

The former Florida governor sparked a conservative furor this week when he described illegal immigration in an interview as an “act of love” by people trying to provide for their families.

Backing Bush are some of the GOP’s most powerful insiders and financiers, who are hoping the party can woo Hispanic voters and rebound from Mitt Romney’s damaging “self-deportation” rhetoric in 2012.

“The worst thing that can happen to a political party is not for voters to decide they don’t like you,” said Alex Castellanos, a GOP consultant and former Romney adviser. “It’s for voters to decide you don’t like them. And that’s where the Republican Party is right now.”

Other GOP lawmakers and conservative activists, however, are cringing over Bush’s remarks, which triggered vocal opposition and concerns about “amnesty.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
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To: maggief

I hate the word “value”.

Just another in a long line of insincere manipulative linguistic devices.


41 posted on 04/11/2014 6:33:42 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: maggief

Jeb Bush is a fool. And anyone listening to anything he has to say is a fool also. Pretend he’s not there.


42 posted on 04/11/2014 6:34:41 AM PDT by upchuck (Support ABLE, the Anybody But Lindsey Effort. Yes, we are the ABLE!!)
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To: maggief
Did then Governor Bush uphold his constitutional duty and oath to enforce the border and immigration law?

Or, did he look the other way while the foreign invasion of family love was taking place?

How much love does he have for those who supported and elected him and donated to his campaigns, only to find themselves competing for jobs, educational opportunities and the government service that their taxes pay for?

In other words, whose side is he on? We, the people, or we are the world and that new world's order?

Never mind...I think I know the answer.

43 posted on 04/11/2014 6:36:19 AM PDT by GBA (Here in the Matrix, life is but a dream.)
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To: skeeter

Don’t you just love it when these scalawags tell you what values you have or not? I just don’t understand how these educated and world traveled families hatch these totally ignorant turkeys.


44 posted on 04/11/2014 6:36:34 AM PDT by biff (WAS)
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To: Malone LaVeigh

Jeb’s “Mexico First” policy is an insult to conservatives.


45 posted on 04/11/2014 6:37:44 AM PDT by jimbo123
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To: maggief

Allowing foreigners to invade our country, steal from our treasury and to murder and rape Americans isn’t an “American value” either, Jeb.


46 posted on 04/11/2014 6:37:59 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: maggief

Like Rush said “How do I get into the shadows?”


47 posted on 04/11/2014 6:39:04 AM PDT by MNDude
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To: maggief
Previously: Even the ole GW Bush line -- jobs Americans won't do -- was basically a LIE.

Jobs Americans won't do? Very few, according to the May 2013 report linked below:
48 posted on 04/11/2014 6:40:10 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: maggief

Bushies = Shamnesty = LOSERS.


49 posted on 04/11/2014 6:40:34 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: MNDude
Like Rush said “How do I get into the shadows?”

Easy. Join the TEA Party and let the GOPe do the rest.

50 posted on 04/11/2014 6:42:37 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: stanne
What is that Jeb up to? He can not think this is a winner

Earlier this week, Mark Levin played some clips of a recent Jeb Bush media interview. During the clips, Jeb was inarticulate and incoherent, as he claimed immigrants (illegal) come here out of 'love for their families'. Some of the things he said did not even make sense. Levin noted that.
51 posted on 04/11/2014 6:43:53 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: AuntB; Tennessee Nana; TADSLOS; Sun; no-to-illegals; Grampa Dave; sickoflibs; GOPJ; Jane Long; ...
THIS GUY NAILS IT: “The worst thing that can happen to a political party is not for voters to decide they don’t like the candidate.....it’s voters sensing the candidate does not like them."

Jeb's assinine "act of love" comment is as damaging to him as Perry's "you don't have a heart" comment.

Jeb and Perry sneered at voters----suggesting they were superior....that the rest of us just fell off a turnip truck.

Such stupidity in a candidate---not realizing the collateral effect of their words---can never be forgiven.

52 posted on 04/11/2014 6:44:50 AM PDT by Liz
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To: maggief

JBush and the rest of the legalize now crowd want to forgive and reward the misdemeanors of non-Americans, but still continue to punish the misdemeanors of real Americans. Isn’t an American pickpocket just trying to feed his family? What about the American guy underreporting his income? How about the American woman who steals baby formula from a food store? Doesn’t their love of family move you as much as the woes of an illegal alien? Why not a move to understand, to forgive and to reward their transgressions?


53 posted on 04/11/2014 6:47:20 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Patriot Babe

“STAY OUT DA BUSHES!”

-Jesse Jackson


54 posted on 04/11/2014 6:49:57 AM PDT by mkboyce
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To: Liz

Pushers like Jeb and Obama know that shame is a helluva drug.


55 posted on 04/11/2014 6:49:57 AM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: maggief

As if these people have absolutely no responsibility for their behavior? Is there an illegal immigrant gene or something? The elite talk about illegal immigrants as if they just were sucked up by some mean white guys space ship and then popped into the united states and forced to live ‘in the shadows’. What a puke worthy piece of tripe.


56 posted on 04/11/2014 6:50:52 AM PDT by Maelstorm
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To: mkboyce

Exactly....and no matter how liberal Jeb is, they won’t like the Bushes anymore now than they did then. That’s why “Democratic-Lite” loses every single time....Why vote for that, when you can vote for the real thing?


57 posted on 04/11/2014 6:51:03 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: maggief

It’s not the “American way” to cheat those who are waiting in line from places other than Mexico and South America either.


58 posted on 04/11/2014 6:51:07 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: maggief

Hiding in the shadows, hiding in the Bushes...


59 posted on 04/11/2014 6:52:13 AM PDT by Third Person
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To: MNDude
Like Rush said “How do I get into the shadows?”

Into the shadows, and out of the Bushes.

60 posted on 04/11/2014 6:53:13 AM PDT by maggief
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