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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

This guy’s an idiot.


21 posted on 05/15/2014 2:10:20 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: george76

Is he coming on to Doris Kearns Goodwin when he says that? She’s probably up for it, Jeb.


22 posted on 05/15/2014 2:10:24 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: george76

No. Absolutely not.


23 posted on 05/15/2014 2:10:31 PM PDT by mad puppy (E PLURIBUS UNUM)
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To: george76

So basically lie and pander to blacks and Hispanics so they’ll vote republican for 200 years?


24 posted on 05/15/2014 2:10:36 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: george76

WTF is wrong with this guy?


25 posted on 05/15/2014 2:10:38 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: george76

Heard on Glenn Beck today that ol’ Jebbie gets $$$ from Common Core testing. Disgusting to think he profits from the downfall of the American education system.


26 posted on 05/15/2014 2:10:51 PM PDT by NoExpectations
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To: george76

Please...NO MORE BUSHES Please


27 posted on 05/15/2014 2:10:52 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: george76
Absolutely amazing statement. Either Bush has no idea whatsoever about how LBJ ruled, or else he would be a menace to the country if elected.
28 posted on 05/15/2014 2:10:55 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: george76

I bet Jeb Bush didn't see this book in his home when he was growing up. My parents had two copies of it in our house.

29 posted on 05/15/2014 2:11:24 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: george76

OMG, LBJ totally destroyed this country.

Now we know what will be waiting for us if we were so foolish to vote for JB.


30 posted on 05/15/2014 2:11:38 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: plain talk

Does Jeb have a Beagle that he can hoist by the ears?


31 posted on 05/15/2014 2:11:42 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: george76

This guy must have a brain tumor or something.....


32 posted on 05/15/2014 2:11:43 PM PDT by clintonh8r (#Don't give up! The liberals are buggering and aborting themselves into extinction.)
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To: george76

This does not even make sense.

Besides being a liberal boondoggle, LBJ left office in disgrace after presiding over the worst conducted war in US history, with the nation torn apart.

The other thing he did was push civil rights legislation through, so is Jeb planning on some huge civil rights push for illegals?

I can’t even imagine anyone of either party citing LBJ as a role model president. He left the country in shambles.


33 posted on 05/15/2014 2:11:52 PM PDT by Williams
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To: george76

He would pull his basset hounds’ ears?


34 posted on 05/15/2014 2:11:54 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: george76

Bm...


35 posted on 05/15/2014 2:12:01 PM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Kartographer

Neah. He needs to keep talking.
With a little luck he’ll completely undermine himself.

Never thought I’d live to hear a ‘Pubbie wanting be like LBJ. Geez, the world truly is upside down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSExogKSOyc


36 posted on 05/15/2014 2:12:20 PM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: vbmoneyspender
-- a politician is honest about expanding the gov't and people still vote for him, then people deserve what they get. --

Universal suffrage being what it is, the person who promises the most loot from other people's pockets is a shoo-in. That's why Obama won, twice. And that's why the government is going to continue to grow. The only limit is "physics," as the constitution is a living document.

37 posted on 05/15/2014 2:12:44 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: george76

http://www.amazon.com/A-Texan-Looks-at-Lyndon/dp/1568490097

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

52 of 56 people found the following review helpful
A Devastating Diatribe
By Kurt Harding VINE VOICE on May 31, 2003
Format: Paperback
It would be an understatement to say that author Haley does not like Lyndon Baines Johnson. And despite the fact that his book is an unrelenting tirade against all things Lyndon, it provides a useful service in reminding the reader of how Johnson trampled and double-crossed friend and foe alike in his single-minded lust for power.
I am fairly conservative politically, but I am open-minded enough to recognize and oppose corruption whether practiced by liberals or conservatives. In my lifetime, Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton have been shining examples of the worst impulses in American presidential politics in which greed and lust for either power or money ended up overshadowing any of their real achievements.
Haley shows that Johnson was a man of few real principles, neither liberal nor conservative, but rather a man who usually always wanted to know which way the wind was blowing before taking a stand on any important issue. Johnson was a man who used all his powers of persuasion and veiled threats to get what he wanted and woe unto anyone who stood in his way. He was a man who knew and used the old adage “It’s not what you know, but who you know” to Machiavellian extremes. But he was also a man of sometimes great political courage who would rarely give an inch once he took a stand. He hated those who opposed him, nursed resentments, and wreaked revenge on those who crossed him in the least as most of his enemies and many of his friends learned to their sorrow. From the earliest days, he was involved with corrupt Texas politicians from the local to the state level and swam in the seas of corporate corruption with the likes of the infamous swindler Billy Sol Estes and others of his stripe.


38 posted on 05/15/2014 2:13:02 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: george76; sickoflibs; Impy; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy

So Jebbie would be a corrupt bully and thug pushing through a radical and destructive leftist agenda.


39 posted on 05/15/2014 2:13:08 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: george76
Well, I had thought that Jeb Bush would have made a great President, but some of the recent remarks he has made show he has absolutely no business being President.

LBJ was a absolutely horrible president and any one who wishes to emulate him is really, really out of touch with reality.

40 posted on 05/15/2014 2:14:03 PM PDT by rdcbn
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