“Jeb Bush 2016 Is a Surefire Winner,” Says Local Unicorn

Kurt Schlichter | Apr 07, 2014

Can you feel the excitement? The Washington Post reports that all the important Republicans have decided that Jeb Bush is going to be our nominee in 2016. Phew, that’s a relief! If we had had a primary, we conservatives who actually do all the working and voting for the GOP might have had a say.

 

We sure can’t have that. In fact, this is the best news since the Establishment’s choice, President McCain, was reelected in 2012! .........Jeb Bush has been there at the forefront of the issues that matter most to conservatives, like IRS targeting, attacks on religious liberty, executive overreach, intrusive government surveillance, and gun grabbing....not publicly, of course.....he’s working behind the scenes. But believe me, Jeb is absolutely and resolutely for IRS targeting, attacks on religious liberty, executive overreach, intrusive government surveillance, and gun grabbing at a much slower pace than the liberals want.

So, what are his views on climate change, the greatest threat to mankind in the history of history? Well, I don’t know. Let me Google it right now as I write this! Well, the top link is a Politico article from April 23, 2013, titled “Climate’s Best Hope: Another Bush,” and it quotes the Florida environmental guy Jeb appointed as saying “I can see him coming around to some combination of a cap-and-trade program….” Er, uh, did I mention that Jeb speaks Spanish?
 

My Take - I saw one interview recently and the man is charming, smart and is totally comfortable in front of a camera. He's also a master of logical fallacies and misdirection when answering questions. He was asked about Common Core, so he went about telling everyone there are (if I recall correctly) over 13,000 education systems in the country and presumed they were all failing the kids, therefore something needs to be done.

Ok, I'm willing to buy into the idea education overall is failing our kids, but since that didn't really start happening to the degree it is today until the federal government got involved and liberals totally dominated education, why would we believe centralizing authority over public education in Washington's hands would make it better? 

Why not look to see which educational systems are working, and encourage adoption for those failing systems?  Why not try competition?  That works in all other fields, why would be believe it won’t work in education.  Most importantly, why don’t we get the federal government out of education entirely, abolish the Dept. of Ed., let the states figure in out themselves, and most importantly….give control back to the parents. 

That worked for 200 years, why would be believe it should be replaced?  Good Ole Jeb is just like Good Ole “W”, and Good Ole George I.  All big government, centralized authority solution guys!  And without control of education at Propaganda Central – U.S. Department of Education -  these kids might come to learn about the Constitution, what it says, why it says the things it says and then think differently than the socialists running education. 

 

What we need is clarity.  Listen carefully.  Education is not the responsibility of government.  Education the responsibility of parents, and parents merely use govenment as their tool to accomplish the goal of educating their children.   And when government fails or corrupts that process parents need to fire them.  It's not government's job to decide anything contrary to the parents wishes - they're hired help.  Do we get this? Do we understand this?