Jeb has only kind things to say of POTUS after dad's funeral

According to The Washington Times, Jeb Bush had nothing but praise for his 2016 presidential primary rival, President Trump, regarding how he handled his father's death. Unless you're living on another planet, you know that former President George H.W. Bush died last week and was laid to rest on Wednesday.

Although Jeb has openly slammed President Trump in the past, he had only kind words to say about him, which had to aggravate the hell out of those on the left. He said of "Gracious" Trump that he "couldn't have been nicer after my father's death."

The statement came while speaking at the Wall Street Journal CEO Council’s annual meeting on Tuesday.

The former Florida governor said both President Trump and first lady Melania Trump were “really gracious” in preparing for Wednesday’s state funeral for his father, who passed away Friday.

Mr. Bush said his granddaughters were invited to the White House on Tuesday to see the Christmas decorations, and that the president “couldn’t have been nicer” when he called to pay his respects, WSJ reported.

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Shades of Clinton tactics

Politics is dirty and the public is getting tired of it. That may be why Donald Trump is so attractive to many voters--he says what's on his mind, and that's bringing him votes even if it goes against the political philosophy of the voter. 

But even Donald Trump lies. It's just that his opponents are afraid to call attention to those lies because of how powerfully he fights back.

Regarding Iraq, Trump now says he was against the war. "Was" implies that in the past, he was always against the war.


He was against it, but that was after he said he was for it in 2002. Now he's against it apparently because it makes him look wiser than the brother of one of his opponents. 

People have the right to change their minds, and there is no reason not to believe what Donald Trump is saying now--he isn't lying about what he believes at this time in history. The only lie was that he implied that he was never for the war.

Now let's be clear, the misleading photo of Marco Rubio shaking hands with President Obama is a lie. It's a lie because it isn't a true photo of the event it claims to represents. It was Photoshopped to make it look like Rubio is an Obama buddy.

The fake photo was on the Cruz campaign site TheRealRubioRecord.com. It was a stock photo of an African-American businessman shaking hands with a Latino businessman--the photo was discovered after it had gone on the website. 

The heads of both Obama and Rubio were Photoshopped onto the torsos with the headline: "The Rubio-Obama Trade Pact."

I'm sorry, Cruz voters, but that's dishonest and it sucks.

A Cruz spokesman told CNN that they were "confident that our campaign would not use a photo that is not authentic."

And Bill did not have sex with that woman . . . Monica Lewinsky. And Hillary Clinton never told a lie.

The Cruz campaign communications director Rick Tyler said to CNN that "if Rubio has a better picture of him shaking hands with Barack Obama I'm happy to swap it out." 

That sounds like something the Clinton camp might say to a political opponent. Putting the onus on the victim rather than themselves, the accusers.

Honestly, I'm not "all in" for Marco Rubio. I'm still watching and listening to the candidates and I've narrowed it down to three.


I've basically eliminated Dr. Ben Carson--Meghan McCain accurately described his campaign speeches as sounding like Wikipedia posts, and I totally agree. However, I like Carson's honesty, but I cannot imagine him presiding over our foreign affairs.

I think John Kasich is just okay, but his chronic karate chopping gets me antsy. He also makes all kinds of claims as to what he had done for Ohio, but my research has shown that he was significantly less instrumental in the state's jobs and economy as he claims. 
Look it up.

Jeb Bush needs to bow out of the race immediately. His stoop-shouldered responses to Trump make me feel sad for him. He's probably a decent enough guy, but he's never going to be president, so he needs to pack up his mommy and big brother and go home. The Bush era needs to be put to bed.

For me, the race is now between the top three: Trump, Cruz and Rubio. But Cruz has lost some points after the Carson scandal and the Rubio Photoshop-fest. 

I am beginning to think Cruz, like Hillary, would do anything and say anything to get elected. 

Let him convince me I'm wrong. I'm willing to listen and I don't mind being wrong.


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The GOP debacle and CBS

The GOP debate was as lively as a cock fight and as elegant as Roseanne Barr singing the Star Spangled Banner. The moderators couldn't moderate a thermostat as candidates did not give other candidates the floor, interrupting boisterously, and saying things that make some of us embarrassed to be conservative Republicans.

Of course I'm mainly referring to Donald Trump, but even Jeb Bush seemed out of line at times. He had to attack Trump to gain any footing he hoped to carry over into South Carolina, but he never seems to have his heart into the fracas like Trump does.

Trump, not saying the "F" word

It's understandable why people are flocking to Trump--they're totally fed up with Washington. And if somehow Obama appoints a Supreme Court justice to replace Antonin Scalia during Senate adjournment, Trump will win the nomination hands down, in my opinion.

But back to the debate.

The audience was rude and totally disrespectful to the non-establishment candidates, particularly Trump and Cruz. They weren't disrespectful to Carson, however, because he's such a likable person--it would be like flipping off MLK.

But they were all in for Rubio, who, I believe, had a  very good performance, however, when an audience is obviously biased toward one person, it takes something away from his or her credibility. And let's remember, Rubio was part of the Gang of Eight, which makes him almost too moderate for many conservatives, which is why he scores best over Hillary Clinton.

And speaking of the Scandal Queen, she tweeted during the debate and, in one instance, tweeted about how the GOP demonizes women. I responded to her "Like how you demonized Bill's victims."

She didn't respond.

Anyway, I was grateful the debate ended, but it didn't end soon enough. 

The "S" in CBS has to stand for "Sucks."



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"If it ain't a race, you ain't a racist"

Is Trump so crazy to want the stoppage of Muslim immigration into the country--"at least until we know what the hell is going on."

In France, up to 160 mosques are slated to be closed down due to terror concerns.  They've found in just over two weeks, hundreds of war-grade weapons and an enormous supply of Kalashnikov ammunition. A take that huge (to use a Trump fav) normally takes a year, according to French interior minister Cazenueve.  

And there have been over 200 arrests since this began.

As a result of this obvious jihad plan, between 100 to 160 out of a total of 2,600 French mosques will be closed for the protection and safety of Western civilization, at least in France.

But if we see the same jihadist trend in the U.S. and decide to follow France's strategy, we're being racist, according to the stupidly suicidal liberal left. This is especially true if we follow Trump's plan or put any limits on Islamic immigration, but the other GOP candidates aren't so different in their thinking regarding thie problem.

Sen. Ted Cruz wants to designate the terrorist organization known as the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. By doing so through legislative action, we could then deal with the American-based scumcrumpets and kick them out of the White House for good. The Terrorist Infiltration Prevention Act of 2015 would keep out refugees coming from countries that have a substantial swath of territory controlled by terrorist organizations, like ISIS, for example.

Sen. Marco Rubio voted against the Muslim moratorium bill and has nothing to offer by way of limiting jihadist refugees. Rubio's "Gang of Eight" bill would have allowed a floodgate of Islamic immigrants with uncertain backgrounds to enter, but not in his neighborhood.

Gov. Jeb Bush is also soft on immigration and is so weak that his Mexican wife makes him speak Spanish in the house.

The question we need to ask is: did Obama use a terror-linked mosque to preach to us about Islam on purpose, or was he unable to find one without terror ties?

Islam is not a race. Islam is a set of ideas, which makes it an ideology--a very bad ideology if you are a woman, an non-Muslim, gay, lesbian, or a person who loves freedom. In fact, Islam, as an ideology, cannot peacefully co-exist with freedom, especially in countries governed by Sharia.

If you're offended by what Islam teaches because it opposes your American or Western values, you are not alone. 

And if it ain't a race, you ain't a racist.




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Breaking: Graham endorses Jeb in a sad way

South Carolina-- Speaking into a microphone that sounded reminiscent of the days when kids used tin cans and a string as communication devices, Lindsey Graham announced his support for Jeb Bush Friday morning as the GOP candidate for president.

Personally, I felt a bit sad as Graham made the announcement on Fox News. 

Why? 

Because I can imagine Donald Trump responding: "Lindsey is a good guy, but Lindsey is a looooser. A big looooser, in fact. And he's endorsing another looooser, Jeb Bush. The endorsement isn't going to help Jeb's poll numbers. By the way, I have the best poll numbers and Jeb's poll numbers keep falling more and more. It's amazing, I tell you."

Jeb, stoop-shouldered and towering over Graham, looked grateful, but appeared to want to be elsewhere.

I suspect we've reached a point in the campaign race where people like Dr. Carson, Paul and Bush need to accept the fact that they have as much chance of winning as the Powerball Lottery winners have of being struck by lightning while making a hole-in-one on a Trump golf course.

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Another CNBC vacuous moment

It looks like the neurologically challenged writers at CNBC are at it again with attacking the GOP presidential candidates. In a typically slanted hit piece entitled "College-level speaking not required at the GOP debates" the leftist network attempted to categorize the candidates as contestants on "Are You As Smart As A Fifth Grader."

The opening sentence read: In debates rife with confrontation and verbal barbs, there was one thing that wasn't a big surprise. Nobody was speaking above a high school level. (Italics are mine.) 

Then the writer pointed out: And at least one front-runner was in elementary school territory. (Again, my italics.)

The grade scores they gave to each GOP contender, according to speech patterns based on the Flesch-Kincaid readability test were:

Ted Cruz: 9.1;  Marco Rubio 7.9;  Dr. Ben Carson 7.9; 
Mike Huckabee 7.6;  Jeb Bush 7.3;  Chris Christie 7.1;
Dr. Rand Paul 7.1;  Carly Fiorina 7.0;  John Kasich 6.9;
Donald Trump 5.2.

They describe Donald Trump as "at the youngest end of the spectrum--averaging a fifth-grade level of vocabulary." They admit that this may be why he is polling so well and thus seem to be implying the GOP electorate isn't as smart as those incredibly intelligent liberals.

But this is called 'plain talk' and the kind of speech that everyone (not just highly articulate, morally superior, secular, vegan, granola munching liberals) can relate to.

The article was a put-down of conservatives. I hope you'll read it and see that it's true.

On the other side of the spectrum, we have the Mensa-level liberals, the ever scandalous Hillary Clinton comes to mind, and I thought it would be interesting to use the same readability scale on one of her speeches--something she prepared in writing and not off the cuff in a debate.

This is it in part:

Thank you! Oh, thank you all! Thank you so very, very much.

It is wonderful to be here with all of you.

To be in New York with my family, with so many friends, including many New Yorkers who gave me the honor of serving them in the Senate for eight years.

To be right across the water from the headquarters of the United Nations, where I represented our country many times.

To be here in this beautiful park dedicated to Franklin Roosevelt’s enduring vision of America, the nation we want to be.

And in a place… with absolutely no ceilings.

You know, President Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms are a testament to our nation’s unmatched aspirations and a reminder of our unfinished work at home and abroad. His legacy lifted up a nation and inspired presidents who followed. One is the man I served as Secretary of State, Barack Obama, and another is my husband, Bill Clinton.

Two Democrats guided by the — Oh, that will make him so happy. They were and are two Democrats guided by the fundamental American belief that real and lasting prosperity must be built by all and shared by all.

President Roosevelt called on every American to do his or her part, and every American answered. He said there’s no mystery about what it takes to build a strong and prosperous America: “Equality of opportunity… Jobs for those who can work… Security for those who need it… The ending of special privilege for the few… The preservation of civil liberties for all… a wider and constantly rising standard of living.”

That still sounds good to me.

It’s America’s basic bargain. If you do your part you ought to be able to get ahead. And when everybody does their part, America gets ahead too.

That bargain inspired generations of families, including my own.

It’s what kept my grandfather going to work in the same Scranton lace mill every day for 50 years.

It’s what led my father to believe that if he scrimped and saved, his small business printing drapery fabric in Chicago could provide us with a middle-class life. And it did.

When President Clinton honored the bargain, we had the longest peacetime expansion in history, a balanced budget, and the first time in decades we all grew together, with the bottom 20 percent of workers increasing their incomes by the same percentage as the top 5 percent.

When President Obama honored the bargain, we pulled back from the brink of Depression, saved the auto industry, provided health care to 16 million working people, and replaced the jobs we lost faster than after a financial crash.

But, it’s not 1941, or 1993, or even 2009. We face new challenges in our economy and our democracy.

We’re still working our way back from a crisis that happened because time-tested values were replaced by false promises.

Instead of an economy built by every American, for every American, we were told that if we let those at the top pay lower taxes and bend the rules, their success would trickle down to everyone else.

What happened?

Well, instead of a balanced budget with surpluses that could have eventually paid off our national debt, the Republicans twice cut taxes for the wealthiest, borrowed money from other countries to pay for two wars, and family incomes dropped. You know where we ended up.

Except it wasn’t the end.

It scores a 7.9 on the Flesch-Readability test. But don't forget, this was a prepared speech with the opportunity to check and revise vocabulary. Hillary's words are no better than Ben Carson's unrehearsed statements.

So you can stick that so-called journalistic analysis into your nether regions, CNBC.

Oh, and by the way, I checked my own score (up to, but not including Hillary's speech) and it came to  10.9. 

Just sayin'.




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The selective outrage is typical liberal garbage

Liberals are upset with the GOP's stance on babies and people with overbite, such as Debbie (Duh-Duh) Wasserman Schultz, are particularly upset with Donald Trump and Jeb Bush calling the babies of illegal aliens (who come across the U.S. border to have an American baby) "anchor babies."

Both Donald and Jeb asked the reporters who asked both candidates the question as to whether the term "anchor baby" is offensive to them, asked the leftist media hack if he had a better term to offer. In each case no better term was forthcoming.

So here we have Debbie W. Schultz really angry at the GOP, tweeting: "Anchor babies"???? If you were looking for proof that Jeb Bush doesn't stand with immigrants."

Coincidence that the mic is also her IQ?

But if any GOP-er stood with immigrants, even those of the illegal variety, it would be Jeb Bush. After all, who can forget the remark he made about the reason illegal aliens come across our borders is "out of love."

So liberals are "outraged" over the term "anchor babies." To DNC chaircretin, Duh-Duh, it's proof that we don't care about illegal aliens coming here.

We only care about those American aborted babies whose body parts are harvested in pie pans and sold for profit. We are wrongly outraged by Planned Parenthood selling of whole baby cadavers used to keep the major organs "intact."

We are disgusted, angry and outraged when Planned Parenthood cuts out brains of babies whose hearts are still beating.

I'm proud to be disgusted with Planned Parenthood, liberals who aren't outraged by their practices and smug actions, Duh-Duh Schultz and her gang of scumcrumpets, and the DNC in general.

And any news organization that supports PP's practices deserves my loathing.




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Trump can't take the heat

There is no question that Donald Trump was a crucial factor in the viewership of the first GOP debate on Fox News. About 24 million people watched the debate and got to know the candidates because many wanted to see the "Trump Show."

In this way, "The Donald" has helped the Republican party garner more viewers than any cable news program in history. This can be attributed to Trump's entertainment factor and the anger many conservatives share against political correctness and the lies we constantly get from politicians.

Trump has tapped into our anger and he pulls no punches.

But there comes a point when substance is important. Voters want specifics about what the candidate can do for them and how they think. This gives us the chance to evaluate what's being said/promised, and come to intelligent conclusions.

In the debate, Fox News' Megyn Kelly asked Trump a specific question about his disparagement of women: "Mr. Trump, one of the things people love about you is you speak your mind and you don't use a politician's filter. However, that is not without its downsides, in particular, when it comes to women. You've called women you don't like, 'fat pigs,' 'dogs,' 'slobs,' and disgusting animals."

Trump quickly interjected, "Only Rosie O'Donnell." Everyone knows about their feud and how they sparred in the past.

But Megyn Kelly didn't allow him to get away with that reply. "No, it wasn't," she said. "Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women's looks. You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president, and how will you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton, who is likely to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of the war on women?"

Trump's comeback was to argue about political correctness being "the big problem."

"Frankly, what I say, and oftentimes it's fun, it's kidding," Trump said. "We have a good time. What I say is what I say, and honestly Megyn, if you don't like it, I'm sorry."

Trump told CNN's Don Lemon that Megyn Kelly had it out for him during the debate. "She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions. You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her . . . whatever."

The implication was clear. You don't have to be a deviant to know what he was going to refer to but decided that sometimes political correctness is the only way to go.

Vox, the far left ragblog, supported Trump and came out with what they referred to as a "complex theory" as to why Fox went after him.

It's not just about what happened at Thursday's debate. It's also about the way Fox News had, until Thursday, been inflating the Trump bubble, and the broader tension between Fox News's role as a ratings-obsessed cable network, an actual journalistic outlet, and one of the most important institutional actors in the Republican Party.

So, according to Vox, Trump was basically ambushed by Megyn Kelly. That would seem to imply that Kelly threw 'softballs' to the other candidates so that they would outdo The Donald on stage.

But alas, that wasn't the case. 

Kelly asked Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin about his strict abortion stance: "Would you really let a mother die, rather than having an abortion?" 

And while the death of a mother over a child is extremely rare, Walker dealt with the question admirably.

She asked Jeb Bush about saying that his brother's decision to get us into Iraq was a mistake: "To the families of those who died in that war . . . how do you look at them now and say your brother's war was a mistake?"

Bush dealt with it.

She asked Ohio Gov. John Kasich about his justifying the expansion of Medicaid in Ohio by arguing that he would be able to speak to Saint Peter at the pearly gates about it. "Why should Republican voters, who generally want to shrink government, believe you won't use your Saint Peter analogy to expand all government?" Then she asked him: "If you had a son or daughter who was gay or lesbian, how would you explain to them your opposition to same sex marriage?"

Kasich dealt with both questions quite well.

Kelly's first question to Dr. Ben Carson was directed at his readiness to be president based upon his previous lack of knowledge of government affairs. 

Carson dealt with it and came away from the debate by "sticking the landing." 

Kasich's questions, like those posed to Walker, Carson and Bush were tough, but they all dealt with them and handled them thoughtfully and well.

Trump also dealt with the question that Megyn Kelly posed, but he appeared arrogant, angry and seemed to take it personally, attacking Kelly for what she called him out on: misogyny. 

And like an angry kid who didn't want to clean his room, Trump complained to CNN that he was treated "unfairly."

I don't think calling politicians "stupid," and "losers" is going to continue to work for Trump. There's just so much traction one can get from anger without substance.

Anger without substance is like a hula-hoop for a snake--they don't have hips.

And Vox has as much credibility as Hillary Clinton's server story.



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Jeb! Bush: 5 things to consider about him before voting

Now that Jeb! is throwing his hat in the ever-enlarging campaign ring, we should get to know his views. Jeb Bush has name recognition, but not everyone knows how he stands on national security, specifically Islamic terrorism.

1. Jeb Bush has said, ""[Islam has] been hijacked by people who have an ideology that wants to destroy Western civilization, and they're barbarians. And so that part, which is the part that we need to confront head-on, is clearly not a religion of peace."

Nobody has "hijacked" jack squat. Islam is Islam. Islamic scripture, like Judeo-Christian scripture, has good parts and bad parts. But in Islamic scripture, i.e., the Koran, the good parts are abrogated by the bad parts. That is, the earlier Koran written by Mohammad's scribe while in Mecca, was peaceful because Islam was weak. The latter Koran, written by the scribe because Mohammad was never able to read or write, was written in Medina, when Islam was powerful. And the Medina Koran abrogated (that is, negated) the earlier, peaceful Koran.

To call Islam a "religion of peace" is ridiculous, if you follow what the religion of peace is doing in the world. Their definition of peace is that state of being in the world when only Allah is worshiped and the Jews and all non-believers are destroyed. Only then will there be peace.

2. Jeb believes that the way to fight radical Islam is to concentrate more on security and less on promoting Western values. "Am I the same as my brother? Of course not. I'm not. I think, for example, our foreign policy ought to be grounded in not just the export of our own values and nation-building. These are good sentiments, but first and foremost is security and peace."

Jeb really seems to be working hard at not being his brother, but his take on how to fight this ideology is naive. 

Security is important, of course. Nobody denies that. But if you want to put an end to this 1400 jihad, you need to change the way many Muslims think of their so-called religion. 

The Islamic State is winning the hearts and minds of young people on the Internet. They are convincing people to kill and die for them. Now that must be one hell of a powerful message. 

We need to do the same. We need to convince young people that Western civilization is desirable and not evil. We need to also use shock and awe to rattle their now-secure cages. They need to know soon that they are going to lose, and once they know that, they just might listen to reason. If not, we keep killing them for national security.

3. Jeb has Jordan Sekulow as a top adviser to his "Right to Rise" PAC. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR, pronounced "go to hell") demand that Bush drop Sekulow, the executive director for the American Center for Law and Justice from the PAC because they claim he's "anti-Muslim." Sekulow, a lawyer, has written a pamphlet entitled: "Shari'a Law: Radical Islam's Threat to the U.S. Constitution."

CAIR is an un-indicted co-conspirator with the Holy Land Foundation--a group that funneled money to Hamas and supports terror. Why they are allowed to operate in the United States is a mystery--you might ask Obama.

Having Sekulow on board with Jeb is a good thing--Jordan isn't fooled by CAIR or Islam and perhaps can show Bush why he needs to rethink his take on the religion of peace.

Jordan Sekulow has been referred to by the leftist magazine, Salon, as an "evangelical attorney." They call Jeb's acquiring of Jordan as "a major coup." If Salon attacks Sekulow, you know he's good--it's scaring them like crazy.

4. Jeb criticized Obama for pulling his support for Egyptian President Mubarak and now thinks the U.S. should be more friendly towards President El-Sisi.

Bingo. I am in full agreement with Bush on this one. El-Sisi's speech was incredibly courageous when he said that Egypt needs to be less reliant on the old ways of Islam and more accepting of the values of the non-Islamic world. 

They will probably try to kill El-Sisi for this.

5. On Iran, Jeb opposes a nuclear deal but isn't sure if he supports a regime change at this time. He believes, however, that we should align ourselves with those Iranians who oppose the current regime.

Again, I believe he is spot on regarding the so-called deal. Iran is going to develop a bomb and probably go after Israel.

"Once we're done with Israel, just you wait"

Obama hates Israel and likes Islamic nations, based on his track record. He is basically handing Iran the bomb and Bush is fully aware of that.

5. On ISIS, Jeb is not so fully aware. In fact, he's kind of an idiot.

He has shown the same level of knowledge regarding ISIS as Obama showed regarding the number of states in the union. (Remember, our "Genius in Chief" said there are 57 states.)

In a foreign policy speech made last February, he said that our government estimated ISIS has 200,000 fighters. In fact, the estimate was 20,000 to 30,000. He mispronounced the terrorist group, Boko Haram, in spite of the fact that it had been all over the news. 

He also called Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi "the guy that's the supreme leader or whatever his new title is--head of the caliphate."

Jeb needs to do some research.



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