Jeb Bush's Latest Common Core Snit Fit

September 20, 2013 - By Michelle Malkin

This is priceless. Former Fla. GOP Gov. Jeb Bush, consummate politician and 2016 presidential aspirant, has now bitterly accused opponents of his federal education schemes of possessing "purely political" motives. Projection, anyone?  Having previously suggested that critics of the so-called Common Core standards program are crazy, ignorant and lying, Bush piled on at a National Press Club appearance this week. Jeb the Insult Comic Dog did not hold back. Not only is the growing anti-Fed Ed movement of parents, teachers, school board members, academics, privacy advocates and state legislators of all stripes "purely political," Bush sniped, but the Common Core backlash that's causing him conniption fits is also opposed to academic excellence.

Yep. If you question Jeb Bush and his Big Business/Big Government cronies, you stand foursquare against student achievement and intellectual rigor. Pay attention, all you informed moms and dads who have raised pointed, carefully researched questions about the costs, quality, validity, constitutionality and intrusiveness of Common Core. Bush thinks you are "purely political" beasts who are recklessly harming your own kids' scholastic advancement. - See more at:

My Take - Two things! It's clear that Bush the Third has no real expectations of being nominated by his party to be President of the United States, and this tactic of calling everyone names who stands against a dangerously intrusive central government is not going to work.  They will not be cowed by insults or impressed by arrogant claims that their views are "purely political"; implying that elitist’s views are pure and more well founded in knowledge and wisdom.

The public is now more informed than ever and won't stand for such posturing.  The public has come to the conclusion that the views of these privileged characters of the world really aren’t worthy of special consideration any longer.  The internet has exposed people to arguments that show a different perspective than people like Bush propound.  They have been exposed to a logical alternative to Bush’s views and they have had the opportunity to see the end results of both sides of this argument.   And when that information comes into conflict with the ruling classes of the world; these elite look totally inadequate!  I am inclined to think there will be startling changes soon, but one of those changes will not be Jeb Bush, President of the United States.

Oh, one more thing!  As for the ‘purity’ of Bush’s views and the value of his wisdom and insights…..it might be noted that his purity and wisdom seems to be tied as tightly as a square knot to the fact that his “educational foundation, the Foundation for Excellence in Education, is tied at the hip to the federally funded testing consortium called PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers), which raked in $186 million through Race to the Top to develop nationalized tests "aligned" to the top-down Common Core program.”