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Jeb Bush is an idiot



Please, for the love of all that's good and dear, PLEASE don't send this guy to the White House... Or any other house... Good heavens, what an idiot.

http://news.yahoo.com/jeb-bush-people-longer-hours-235206730.html

This is just another indicator of how out of touch our politicians have become. Sigh. I am not saying this because he's a Republican - Democrats are just as guilty of this... But, seriously... come ON! Even Ted Cruz's folks are quick to point out how stupid this is.

Comments

lillysmum said…
He's a complete idiot. I'm of the opinion that all 14 (or however many there are now), are idiots. Bernie Sanders gets my vote.
Bill Cobabe said…
It's going to be an interesting one. I think the vote may go Republican if they could just field someone who wasn't a complete idiot. Sadly, that's all that seem to be attracted to the thing... Not unlike four years ago. The thing that's bad about it is that we need viable, robust debate between two legitimate contenders in order to really suss out who is the best. Unfortunately, we're often just left with whoever's left...
lillysmum said…
I agree with you, there. I don't know what's going to happen this election. It will be interesting, and train wreckish
Anonymous said…
Hillary is in trouble not because she's a sleazy, corrupt, cronyist, money-laundering, Saud-kissing liar. Democrats like you have a strong stomach and boundless tolerance for all of that and wouldn't care were it not for the fact that she's a dud and a bore. A "Hillary rally" is a contradiction in terms: the thin, vetted crowd leave more demoralized and depressed than when they went in. To vote for Bernie Sanders is to be part of a romance, as it was with Obama. To vote for Hillary is to validate the Clintons' indestructible sense of their own indispensability - and nothing else. Hillary is a wooden charmless stiff who supposedly has enough money to be carefully managed across the finish line. But that requires Democratic electors to agree to be managed, too, and the Sanders surge is a strong sign that, while they're relaxed about voting for an unprincipled arrogant phony marinated in ever more malodorous and toxic corruption, they draw the line at such a tedious and charisma-free specimen thereof.

So Bernie is a real danger to Hilary. He will be nimbler, more fun and more human in the debates. And he enthuses the young in a way Hillary doesn't. He could win Iowa, and I know he could win New Hampshire, too, where he will ensure that, instead of going off to destabilize the Republican primary, Granite State "independents" vote in the Democrat poll and play hell with Hillary's ability to manage turnout models. If Mrs Clinton's two down by South Carolina, Berniephobes will be begging any alternative (starting with Crazy Joe Biden) to jump in the race.
Bill Cobabe said…
And just how many republicans are there in the race now? 15?
lillysmum said…
So, scaredy cat, maybe you should have a go and save the world, or at least the USA from "Saud-kissing" liars. Since all the Republican nominees have been bought, we clearly need someone like you who can think for himself. /sarcasm
lillysmum said…
I'm disappointed that your nemesis has not returned. You are clearly not being inflammatory enough.
Bill Cobabe said…
I think nemesis may not be the right word. The implication is that on some level the opponent is equal, in skill, intellect, power, or prowess. It may be better to say annoyance.
lillysmum said…
That is an excellent point. ;)
Anonymous said…
New York Times bestselling author Roger Stone has a new book, The Clintons’ War on Women, and he spoke about the revelations he is making about Bill and Hillary Clinton.

“It’s a horrifying true story of rape, intimidation, cover-up, drugs, greed and power.”

Stone coauthored the book with Robert Morrow, a political researcher and historian. Based on their research, the two show how Bill and Hillary left a trail of assault accusations, intimidation, and cover-ups against women and children.

The Clintons’ “systematically abuse women and others – sexually, physically, and psychologically – in their scramble for power and wealth,” says the book’s press release.

Hillary Clinton’s core agenda is a quest for power, even while she presents herself as champion of women’s issues, Stone says.

“If Hillary intends to build her campaign around an appeal to women, her campaign is built on quicksand,” said Stone. But “Hillary is a life-time abuser of women and her advocacy on women issues rings hollow,” he said.

The book includes details about Clinton’s alleged crimes in Arkansas, in the White House, during her term as Secretary of State, and at the Clinton Foundation, and concludes with revelations about Hillary’s current presidential campaign.

“She’s a life-long abuser of women. She denigrates, degrades and threatens those women who are unlucky enough to be the sexual assault victims of her husband, and that number, you know, is in the hundreds,” Stone said.

He explained the book focuses on 14 individual cases in which Hillary hired private detectives who “threatened and silenced” Bill’s victims.

Stone also said she is not the champion for children she portrays herself to be either. “We present the evidence that it was Hillary Clinton …who gave the order at Waco that killed 26 innocent children,” Stone told Breitbart News, which he argues in his book. “Janet Reno was only Attorney General for two weeks at the time that the U.S. government assaulted the … compound in Waco,” he said.

“We produce congressional evidence from both the Senate and the House that it was Hillary who gave the order to proceed,” he declared. “Twenty-six innocent children died in that assault, which was completely unnecessary.”

“Hillary’s hypocrisy is stunning ” Stone stated. “The key to defeating Hillary is to prove who she really is to women voters.”
Bill Cobabe said…
You know, on one level I'm truly saddened that the only logical debate you have against Hilary Clinton is that she's not good for women. I use the term "logical" loosely. Personally, I would stack Hilary's record with women against any of the Republican field. Including that Carly woman (whose name I can't be bothered to look up). The book sounds like someone with an axe to grind. And just like my blog, anyone can apparently publish anything these days - the faster and more immediate it gets out the better... Books have become long-winded editorial diatribes, in the way that newspapers are only slightly less long-winded. Just like you shouldn't believe everything you read online or in a newspaper editorial, these kinds of gotcha books always make me wonder what the angle is for the author (other than the obvious pecuniary benefits...)

But on further reflection, what makes me sad is how predictable it all is. She's denigrated because she's a woman, and this book denigrates her for not being woman enough... Why does her gender even matter? What does any of this have to do with whether or not she'll be an effective president? Much of what is written is terribly personal and exists between only her and her husband (and his alleged crimes)... I say alleged because if he was guilty of a crime, why hasn't he had the Bill Cosby treatment? I'm not saying he's not a womanizer, and I'm not saying he hasn't committed some crimes... But what you're saying he's guilty of? I don't know that anyone can know that... At least not in the court of public opinion...

The women voters I'm aware of vote on issues that are important to them. The key to defeating Hilary would be to show that she's not supportive of those issues, not that she's some sort of woman-hating enabler... Because if that were the case, women would be very hard pressed to find an able candidate at all.

You may not like her politics, but the straw man you are attacking is such an obvious logical fallacy that I'd think even you should be able to see through it. You can do better than that.
Anonymous said…
It's hardly a straw man...the fact that Hillary IS a woman and CLAIMS to stand up for women and children, but the facts in her personal history disagree vehemently...how in the world can you call that a straw man? People need to be enlightened as to who the candidates are and what they REALLY stand for, not just what they say. This book (no matter why it was written, which seems to be your personal straw man in this conversation) points to facts, data, proof of what Hillary has done in her past, all while representing a different front. How in the world can that not be relevant to the conversation of who is the best equipped person to be the leader of this country? A poll was done last week, and the word most people associate with Hillary is "liar." Do you not want someone to represent our country who is of upstanding character, or is the fact that she is a woman, no matter how scummy, enough for you?
Bill Cobabe said…
Heh. If our standard for politicians was only to accept those whose actions matched their election-time rhetoric, we'd surely have a different set. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but why are you only focusing on Hilary? Why not Jeb, or Bernie, or Donald, or Carly? Seems like a bit of a conservative witch-hunt to me...

Bill's womanizing doesn't have anything to do with Hilary. That's the straw man. And yes, it's a very obvious and silly straw man.

If the books claims are true and substantiated by more than one dude complaining, then I'd be more interested. If they're true, why isn't she getting the Bill Cosby treatment? If they're true, why isn't she in jail?

And heh... I just had a conversation with a best-selling author. I could write a best-seller - just write a book and then buy 10 million copies of my own book... Best-seller is such a meaningless appellation...
Bill Cobabe said…
In fact, now that I think about it, your whole string of comments today is a straw man. The original post is about Bush and how he's an idiot. If you'd like, you can discuss Mr. Bush and his merits (or lack thereof). I think I'm done discussing your straw man.

At a later time I may discuss Hilary, at which time you may feel free to dig up any past history you'd like. In the mean time, please stick to the real topic.

Thanks, Anymouse!

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