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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

What an idiot. Get lost. Go away.


41 posted on 05/15/2014 2:14:09 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party)
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To: george76

Okay, thanks for letting me know. Goodbye, Mr. Bush.


42 posted on 05/15/2014 2:14:53 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: george76

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

37 of 39 people found the following review helpful
You have been warned
By Randall Ivey on July 31, 2000
Format: Paperback
Haley wrote this book (and published it himself) in 1964 basically as a campaign tract for Barry Goldwater. In the intervening years it has become a classic of its kind,a philippic, to use M.E. Bradford’s term, tracing the illegitimate rise to power of Lyndon Baines Johnson. If you’re politically naive, this book will grown hair on your chest. It’s an unblinking, fearless portrait of Johnson’s wheeling dealing and underhanded methods to achieve the power, prestige, and money he craved all his life. Haley names all the names and lays out facts and figures for the reader to make up his mind. And the reader winds up shaking his head in utter astonishment. The best part of the book is that detailing Johnson’s eventual election to the U.S. Senate in a contest with former Gov. Coke Stevenson. The election was clearly Stevenson’s, but through the machinations of George Parr, the notorious Duke of Duval County, the results were turned around in LBJ’s favor. Investigators later found that among those voting in the primary were people who didn’t live in the county anymore and people who weren’t alive at all. But the results stood.


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

44 posted on 05/15/2014 2:16:01 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: george76

Oh please don’t run! Aside from what we have now, LBJ was about the worst president we ever had.


45 posted on 05/15/2014 2:16:32 PM PDT by Vinylly (?%)
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To: george76

Ah Geez.


46 posted on 05/15/2014 2:17:00 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: All

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47 posted on 05/15/2014 2:17:00 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: george76

Seriously? Lyndon Johnson’s presidency is what made me register as a Republican.


48 posted on 05/15/2014 2:17:04 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: george76

http://www.amazon.com/A-Texan-Looks-at-Lyndon/product-reviews/1568490097/ref=cm_cr_dp_see_all_btm?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1&sortBy=bySubmissionDateDescending

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Texans are still looking at Lyndon, August 8, 2013
By southtexas boy “texas speed reader” (corpus christi, texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Texan Looks at Lyndon (Paperback)
I have read this book no fewer than 10 times. I actually worked for a family that was very close to Lyndon and were the recipients of untold wealth because of it. As tax payers, my parents paid for the perks that Lyndon garnished for himself and others. The Kwajalein Island project which should have cost 6 million dollars was awarded to a firm who employed Lyndon’s brother. with the help of then Secretary of the Navy, Texan John Connally, this contract was awarded on a cost plus basis. This eventually cost the tax payers of this Country 16 million dollars. I hesitate to provide specifics about this event. After I read this book and others on the subject, it made me keenly aware of what our distinguished politicians will resort to. A lot of people around Johnson had a tendency to die at an early age or under suspicious circumstances. Just a little scary. It makes you wonder about our current group of political leaders. Can or will they resort to the same activity as Johnson and his “good ole boys”?


49 posted on 05/15/2014 2:17:31 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: george76

Maybe he meant Andrew Johnson.


50 posted on 05/15/2014 2:17:52 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: All

If so, Obama might want to call off his Dallas motorcade in November 2015. But don’t you be telling him.


51 posted on 05/15/2014 2:17:56 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (It wasn't this cold before global warming)
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To: george76

He has been in the Florida sun too long.


52 posted on 05/15/2014 2:18:16 PM PDT by allendale
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To: george76

What is that guy smoking? LBJ was one of the most corrupt men in politics and that is as saying something.
Maybe Bush hopes for a war like Vietnam too.


53 posted on 05/15/2014 2:18:52 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: george76

So this Bush, too, would be using false flags to herd the sheeple. Got it.


54 posted on 05/15/2014 2:19:12 PM PDT by MHGinTN
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To: P-Marlowe

Either that or drop trou and take a dump in front of reporters.


55 posted on 05/15/2014 2:20:21 PM PDT by Catmom (We're all gonna get the punishment only some of us deserve.)
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To: george76

Practice voter fraud, mock Blacks behind their backs and to their faces, start money wasting programs, show is penis to anyone he thought he could shock and screw interns as often as Clinton. Is that what you’re shooting for Jeb, you idiot?


56 posted on 05/15/2014 2:20:24 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: george76

What was he thinking? That would be like if some hopeful Democrat announced they planned to govern like Richard Nixon.


57 posted on 05/15/2014 2:22:38 PM PDT by MNDude
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To: Moonman62

Exactly!


58 posted on 05/15/2014 2:23:20 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: george76

OH %#&@ NO!!!!


59 posted on 05/15/2014 2:23:54 PM PDT by petro45acp (It's a fabian thing.....how do you boil a frog? How's that water feelin right about now?)
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To: george76
Jeb Bush: I Would Govern Like Lyndon Johnson as President

What a friggin' BUFFOON!

60 posted on 05/15/2014 2:23:57 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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