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RandySF

(58,800 posts)
Tue Apr 8, 2014, 10:28 PM Apr 2014

Yep, the party elders are rallying around Jeb!

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour defended Jeb Bush’s recent comments that some illegal immigration is an “act of love,” saying it’s very similar to what former President Ronald Reagan thought.

“What people want you to do: Tell the truth,” Barbour said Tuesday at the LBJ Presidential Library’s Civil Rights Summit. “And if Jeb feels that way about it — it sort of reminds me of my boss, Ronald Reagan.”

Barbour, who was an aide in Reagan’s administration described what the president used to call the “gates test” during a panel Tuesday with Democratic San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro.

“Ronald Reagan used to say, ‘When the ‘Blame America first’ crowd gets out of hand, then you need to apply the gates test,’” Barbour said.



http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/haley-barbour-jeb-bush-ronald-reagan-immigration-105494.html#ixzz2yLtybBYU

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Yep, the party elders are rallying around Jeb! (Original Post) RandySF Apr 2014 OP
George may need a brother in office Politicalboi Apr 2014 #1
A respite from all that relentless investigatin' that Democratic administrations do! villager Apr 2014 #3
Yes, like the time we Politicalboi Apr 2014 #4
do party elders matter anymore. 2012 GOP was about $$$ Johonny Apr 2014 #2
Shocked I tell you, shocked!!! nadinbrzezinski Apr 2014 #5
shamelessly full of shit spanone Apr 2014 #6
 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
1. George may need a brother in office
Tue Apr 8, 2014, 10:32 PM
Apr 2014

By the time the torture investigation is done. Pardon's for everyone!!!!!!!!

 

Politicalboi

(15,189 posts)
4. Yes, like the time we
Wed Apr 9, 2014, 12:21 AM
Apr 2014

Impeached Bush for an illegal war. Oh that's right, that was off the table. Looking forward instead of behind.

Johonny

(20,848 posts)
2. do party elders matter anymore. 2012 GOP was about $$$
Tue Apr 8, 2014, 10:52 PM
Apr 2014

The court just made it even easier for these billionaires to back any dead horse they want. I expect another round of grifters in 2016 because there are so many stupid billionaires with too much money not to grift them.

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