Discussion: Bush Schiavo

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Discussion for article #232763

[callmeeric]

There’s your 2015 “Moderate Republican”.

[littlegirlblue]

Opposition researchers themselves couldn’t have created a more perfect target. There’ll be the issue of for profit charters schools funded with public money, brother Neil’s role in that venture, the enactment of Stand Your Ground, and I’ve only been following his dirty trail for a little while. Imagine what Floridians know

[pine]

Well Mr Schiavo,if he runs the nation will be reminded of that saga,and how it played out.Something I don’t think Jeb wants revisited.

[pine]

Blue:

I will just add my last sentence of my post to yours:

“Something I don’t think Jeb wants revisited.”

[caterpillar]

Well, but this story only shows that Jeb Bush is a power-hungry dangerous opportunist–it doesn’t say anything about his qualifications to be President of the United States.

[eglot]

Some people voted for Jeb’s brother W. because they thought he was a “compassionate conservative”. Until they realized, after he took office, that he was simply another right-wing hack. No matter how much Jeb wants to paint himself as a “moderate”, he’ll show his true stripes if and when he takes office. #nomorebushes

[enon]

he and his wretched brother ruthlessly and shamelessly exploited that woman for nothing other than political gain…
and once they lost in the courts, bush pushed for investigation of how long it took michael schiavo to call 911…

[pluckyinky]

I didn’t know Jeb had continued to harass Michael Schiavo even after Terry’s death. Also, I seem to remember that the autopsy also showed that she fell into a coma as a result of anorexia or bulimia, not because Michael abused her as her parents claimed. Is that true or am remembering it wrong?

[rssrai]

Imagining another Bush presidency gives me cold chills and not in a good way. I can’t imagine the horror of Jeb Bush giving away big tax cuts to the big banks, who are his close knit cronies since he was on the boards of some of the biggest banks who were the mastermind behind the 2008 economic collapse. I think that if people think that there is inequality now you ain’t seen nothing yet if another Bush becomes president.

[wrs]

Actually, I suspect this is being put out there, now, well in advance of an official run, to defuse the issue. I think it’s standard practice for campaigns to “get the dirt out there early” in the hope that any emotional impact will have been spent, and the campaign can later say “this has already been addressed; next question.”

[an_american]

It is utterly insane that the governor of a state is making medical decisions like reinsertion of feeding tubes or superseding the legal decision maker for an incapacitated person, in this case the husband. This is such a gross over-reach of government, prying into the most personal medical decisions of private citizens. Those hypocrite ‘libertarian’ a-holes should creep out of the woodwork to condemn this in the harshest possible way.

[jaybeeraybee]

Well, I think Republicans are incredibly resilient against judgements that are personally hippocritical. For Jeb it’s a win that his primary base will ignore his actions as the Florida executive being truly the very personification of what they claim to hate most about President Obama… executive overreach.

[chammy]

Not to mention a liar!! Bush did the opposite of everything he said he would do

[chammy]

Those pesky little facts are a bitch aren’t they? Facts my family refuse to believe especially since they never heard them on Faux News

[brutus1910]

Amazing how Republicans pick and choose their “small government” positions.

[wagonmound]

This is because, at the time, ole Jeb was sucking every born again cock in Florida, while trying to decide if he should run following Shrub’s final term.

[Diogenes67]

Teri Schiavo was a prop for Jebs political career, nothing more than that…

[jonathang]

So much for the “small government” conservatives that wants government to stay out of personal decisions. Except, you know, when it’s something that they want, in which case it’s totally okay for the government to step in and strong-arm anybody involved.

[bluejoubert]

I could scream your last sentence from the rooftop every hour of every day over at least a thousand subjects. The only change I would make is, instead of saying “especially since” I would say “simply because.”

It’s really sad and frustrating, isn’t it?