As MSNBC’s Joy Wang writes, it’s “the same location where President John F. Kennedy outlined a plan to curb nuclear arms in a historic address delivered more than 50 years ago”.
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Trump is popular because the news media in general despises him. Most of the others didn’t. Bobby Jindal is a little clumsy in his efforts to get attention, but he’s at least making an effort. The candidates in that debate will be: Rick Santorum, Carly Fiorina, Bobby Jindal, Lindsey Graham, George Pataki, Rick Perry and Jim Gilmore.
The Bush gaffe got attention in Breitbart News and has drawn criticism from others on the conservative side of the political spectrum as well.
And yesterday was a ideal example of that.
Disclosure: My wife works at Planned Parenthood, but she played no role in this piece and her work is unrelated to the controversial videos.
Clinton also criticized Bush for questioning the amount the federal government spends on women’s health during a forum earlier Tuesday.
So while Bush’s record on women’s health issues is a little more complex than his garbled comments might have suggested, this is a presidential campaign where nuance exists in theory but rarely in practice – and where a thirty-second speak-o can obscure millions of dollars’ spent on cancer research and prevention.
First of all, nobody is talking about cutting off spending for women’s health.
Bush leapt at the chance Tuesday to prove his anti-abortion bona fides before a group of largely conservative Christian voters at a meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.
Not so, however, and the symbiotic relationship of most Democratic politics and Planned Parenthood is obvious. Why go there?
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst, who sponsored the failed Senate bill, said in a statement that “as a mother and grandmother, I find this footage of Planned Parenthood’s role in the harvesting of the organs of unborn babies morally reprehensible and vile”. That might have the additional benefit of being true; I can’t say.
“But to make these extraordinarily ugly kind of comments is not reflective of the Republican Party“, Bush added. It’s 2012 all over again thanks to him.
After all, why support just Hillary Clinton or just Jeb Bush when you can hedge your bets and donate to both?
Which reduced Jeb to this response…
When women started pointing out to Bush that they actually think women’s health is pretty important, the presidential candidate claimed that he “misspoke”.
Like we said, this really isn’t all that hard. “You can love your Mexican-American wife”, he told one interviewer before telling another that Trump was “preying on people’s fears”.
But mid-thought, he stopped to muse that the federal government might not need to spend as much as it does.
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This guy was a very popular two-term governor of Florida. He also discussed his family name, and the association that comes with it.
