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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

Is this the onion?

What a goofus.


61 posted on 05/15/2014 2:24:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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To: george76

What a dumnass. With one statement he can piss off everyone. No one loves LBJ.


62 posted on 05/15/2014 2:24:24 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: george76

Here’s how Johnson ruled in a nut shell:

You go along with my spending and I’ll go along with yours.


63 posted on 05/15/2014 2:24:46 PM PDT by DManA
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To: george76
Thanks for telling us, Jeb. Now get lost...


64 posted on 05/15/2014 2:25:09 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: george76

And just like LBJ he would have the blacks voting democrat for another 60 years.


65 posted on 05/15/2014 2:25:36 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Malaysia Flight MH370 Black Box signals reported in Bermuda Triangle)
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To: george76

Another disaster. Some people never get over being stupid.


66 posted on 05/15/2014 2:26:18 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: george76

FUJB!! FUGOP!!


67 posted on 05/15/2014 2:27:19 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: george76

Wow, what an incredibly asinine quote!

Thankfully I think Jeb has just taken himself out of the running with this.


68 posted on 05/15/2014 2:29:00 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: george76

LBJ was a white trash thug.


69 posted on 05/15/2014 2:29:11 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: george76
I'm glad good old Jeb said that he'd govern like the president who expanded the government more than any president with the exception of F. Roosevelt.

But I do wish that he'd just change parties and get it over with.

70 posted on 05/15/2014 2:29:32 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: george76

JB, You have sh*t for brains!


71 posted on 05/15/2014 2:30:03 PM PDT by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: george76

i am now 10000% certain i will not vote for jeb.


72 posted on 05/15/2014 2:31:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: george76

LBJ replaced a few military advisers in Vietnam with 100,000’s of thousand of troops, micromanaged them into an ineffectual force with high casualties, and managed to lose to a bunch of guys in black pajamas armed with sharpened bamboo sticks.

What’s not to emulate?

Where do I sign up to volunteer for his campaign???


73 posted on 05/15/2014 2:31:46 PM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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To: george76

Just what we need — another Great Society Democrat masquerading as a Republican.

A vote for Jeb is a vote for Great Society II. That’s a hell of a slogan.


74 posted on 05/15/2014 2:32:54 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: null and void

I was told if I voted for Barry Goldwater, we’d have riots in the streets and get into a long, unwinnable war.....Well I voted for Goldwater and darned if they weren’t right.


75 posted on 05/15/2014 2:33:16 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: x1stcav; John Semmens
Did we just get Semmens’d?

Made me look...

76 posted on 05/15/2014 2:33:41 PM PDT by null and void (When was the last time you heard anyone say: "It's a free country"?)
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To: latina4dubya
go away already! go, go, go! and take Huckabee with you!

And your little dog Toto, too!

77 posted on 05/15/2014 2:34:10 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (For every Ted Cruz we send to DC, I can endure 2-3 "unviable" candidates that beat incumbents.)
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To: george76

Impossible. LBJ worked his way up through the legislature, building allies.

Jeb has done none of that. The two men are nothing alike.

LBJ was a badass, Jeb is a milquetoast.


78 posted on 05/15/2014 2:34:23 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (....Let It Burn...)
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To: george76
I remember LBJ and he was a $%$#@@%^&^%&%^^$%%#@@!!!!!

No vote for Jeb.

79 posted on 05/15/2014 2:34:38 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SaxxonWoods

LBJ is Exhibit A as to why Senators make poor Presidents.


80 posted on 05/15/2014 2:35:42 PM PDT by dfwgator
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