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NeoConsSuck

(2,544 posts)
Mon Jul 20, 2015, 07:01 PM Jul 2015

Jeb Bush defends McCain, but supported Swift Boat attacks against Kerry

Source: CNN

After Donald Trump questioned Republican Sen. John McCain's status as a war hero, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush quickly jumped to McCain's defense.

"Enough with the slanderous attacks. @SenJohnMcCain and all our veterans - particularly POWs have earned our respect and admiration," he tweeted on Saturday.

But that outrage was missing ten years ago, when a political group attacked another Vietnam veteran -- then-Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic nominee who sought to unseat Bush's brother, the incumbent president, during the 2004 election.

Instead, Bush praised Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group that lobbed attacks questioning Kerry's service record in Vietnam -- attacks McCain unequivocally criticized in 2004 as "dishonest and dishonorable."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/20/politics/jeb-bush-swift-boat-veterans/index.html



Not sure if this is LBN, but it is nice to see CNN is calling this hypocrite out.
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Jeb Bush defends McCain, but supported Swift Boat attacks against Kerry (Original Post) NeoConsSuck Jul 2015 OP
Of course the little chickenshit did. randys1 Jul 2015 #1
you speaketh the truth….. blm Jul 2015 #4
" " " MBS Jul 2015 #14
Of course he supported them.....they got his big brother elected president! George II Jul 2015 #2
That's the facts Jack! FarPoint Jul 2015 #3
The more I watch this silly man Trump, the more I think he's being used to make Bush look good C Moon Jul 2015 #5
It could well be an inside job bucolic_frolic Jul 2015 #6
Could be. Trump makes Jeb! appear as the reasonable candidate. n/t Beartracks Jul 2015 #8
Pretty darn scary, that. marble falls Jul 2015 #15
why am I not surprised ericson00 Jul 2015 #7
he's a repug chickenshit hypocrite samsingh Jul 2015 #9
Here's the letter JEB sent ThoughtCriminal Jul 2015 #10
wow..how'd you find that? Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2015 #12
From CNN link ThoughtCriminal Jul 2015 #16
hope CNN mentions this at their Laura PourMeADrink Jul 2015 #11
Jeb Bush defends Swift Boat letter oberliner Jul 2015 #13
One 'defense quote' will not be enough. Jeb Bush that letter has doomed your 'run for the roses' Sunlei Jul 2015 #22
Did he support his brother's attacks on McGramps? ProudToBeBlueInRhody Jul 2015 #17
Indeed. A local letter remined us all question everything Jul 2015 #23
Hypocritical little slime that he is. nt. MH1 Jul 2015 #18
McCain MosheFeingold Jul 2015 #19
no doubt McCain got privilege. However, he was a POW and deserves all the respect due all POWs. Sunlei Jul 2015 #21
Every sentence contains a falsehood. former9thward Jul 2015 #24
Do you have Google? MosheFeingold Jul 2015 #25
But you know everything about ejecting aircraft. former9thward Jul 2015 #26
Jeb Bush even wrote a thank you letter on Governors stationary & thanked his 'swifties' with a party Sunlei Jul 2015 #20

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. Of course the little chickenshit did.
Mon Jul 20, 2015, 07:05 PM
Jul 2015

If you vote republican, you support ATTACKING war heroes and rewarding war evaders like W.

blm

(113,091 posts)
4. you speaketh the truth…..
Mon Jul 20, 2015, 07:30 PM
Jul 2015

ALL Republicans lie and attack when it serves the GOP agenda. Even as we speak, they are preparing lies and attacks against their next heroic target - the Pope.

MBS

(9,688 posts)
14. " " "
Wed Jul 22, 2015, 08:19 AM
Jul 2015

will be most interesting to see how the supposedly "religious" Catholic republican politicos (Boehner, Santorum, Jeb, and more) respond to the pope's US visit: it will be such a pleasure to watch those sanctimonious hypocrites squirm. (As they have already). In all honesty, I worry about the Pope's physical safety during his US visit.

bucolic_frolic

(43,281 posts)
6. It could well be an inside job
Mon Jul 20, 2015, 07:59 PM
Jul 2015

and the public is so distracted and confused by the 26 GOP candidates,
they won't sense what's going down

 

ericson00

(2,707 posts)
7. why am I not surprised
Mon Jul 20, 2015, 08:02 PM
Jul 2015

let's hope someone in the media takes him to task. Of course tho, the media loves the Bushes and elected them in 2004, so I doubt it.

ThoughtCriminal

(14,049 posts)
10. Here's the letter JEB sent
Tue Jul 21, 2015, 10:13 PM
Jul 2015

Jeb was not just thanking him for his military service, he was thanking Day and his fellow "Swifties" for "Standing up to John Kerry.


 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
13. Jeb Bush defends Swift Boat letter
Wed Jul 22, 2015, 08:11 AM
Jul 2015

Spartanburg, South Carolina (CNN)Jeb Bush on Tuesday defended a 2005 letter that he wrote praising the work of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group that questioned then-Sen. John Kerry's military service record in Vietnam.

Speaking at an event in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Bush also argued that if Republicans accept Donald Trump's "ugly" and "mean-spirited" language, then "we'll never win."

The former Florida governor was asked by a panel, which was hosted by the Palladian View in Spartanburg, about the Swift Boat attacks against Kerry in light of the recent attack on John McCain by Trump -- who, like Bush -- is running for president.

Bush confirmed he sent the letter to the head of the group, Col. George "Bud" Day, a highly decorated veteran who was McCain's cellmate in Vietnam, and thanked him for his service. Bush added that he's not backing down from what he wrote.

"He won every award possible," Bush said, talking about Day's military record. "He served in three wars and if he says that there was a problem, I believed him. He's a great Floridian and a great American and so I wrote him a note thanking him for his service. Not going to change my beliefs about that at all. "

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/21/politics/jeb-bush-swift-boat-veterans-2016/index.html

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
22. One 'defense quote' will not be enough. Jeb Bush that letter has doomed your 'run for the roses'
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 12:37 PM
Jul 2015

What a horrible attack you made on a Veteran in 2005- Jeb Bush.

Jebbie, you abused your authority, used your position as Governor of Florida to reward, your 'swifties' with a Orlando Vacation.

question everything

(47,534 posts)
23. Indeed. A local letter remined us all
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 04:48 PM
Jul 2015

Where were they when the minions of George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign in South Carolina (just days before the South Carolina primary) viciously smeared McCain with vile allegations about his character?

Remember? They called McCain a liar, mentally unstable because he was a POW, a traitor for talking to the Viet Cong during his captivity, and a user of prostitutes, and they accused him of having an out-of-wedlock “black” child. All of these malicious charges were 100 percent false. But they worked — McCain was ahead of Bush going into the South Carolina primary; he’d just won the New Hampshire primary by 19 points. But he lost South Carolina and, eventually, the Republican nomination. Today’s GOP and its numerous band of wannabes should open their eyes, realize they live in a glass house and put their stones down.

http://www.startribune.com/readers-write-july-22-airport-noise-and-location-iran-nuclear-deal-franken-and-trump-et-al-and-mccain-diversity-in-sports/318013421/

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
19. McCain
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 12:20 PM
Jul 2015

While I detest Trump (and the sideshow surrounding him), he's right in that McCain is a loser and had a less-than-stellar military career.

McCain (whose daddy was an admiral during Vietnam and whose daddy before him was also an admiral) was a complete wash-out at the Naval Academy -- bottom of the class.

He crashed his first plane, due to pilot error.
Crashed another hot dogging under power lines
Crashed yet another going to the Army/Navy game

Was implicated in the worst Naval accident since WWII, where 150 sailors died due to a misfire of a Zuni missile on deck

And finally, the shoot down in Vietnam? He panicked over target, dodged an imaginary SAM, dropped his bomb into a populated/non-military area, and, in the process of dodging the imaginary SAM, flew directly into the path of anti-aircraft fire.

He even botched the ejection from the plane, ignored his training, and managed to be one of the very few who really hurt themselves ejecting from a plane.

And, more to the point, he's been over the VA mess for decades. The failures there land with him.

So, let the Republicans eat each other. McCain deserves it.

former9thward

(32,077 posts)
24. Every sentence contains a falsehood.
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 07:12 PM
Jul 2015

Congrats, a new record. McCain was not implicated in the Forestall fire. The rocket hit his plane and he was almost killed. I can tell you have never been in a military aircraft either Navy or the Air Force. Pilots dread ejecting planes. The chance of being hurt is very high and some end up as paraplegics. Some go down with a plane rather than to do it. The rest of your shit is just your imaginary allegations without a shred of proof.

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
25. Do you have Google?
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 06:28 PM
Jul 2015

Everything I said was correct, and candidly a bit kind to McCain.

http://www.pythiapress.com/wartales/McCain-Shootdown.htm

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081007_investigating_john_mccains_tragedy_at_sea

Regarding military aircraft, you are correct, I have not been in one since WWII, and there I considered it a luxury compared to my usual mode of transport, which involved wading ashore to France in ill-fitting boots (thankfully a solid two weeks after D-day), but I did manage to basically walk to the Rhine.

former9thward

(32,077 posts)
26. But you know everything about ejecting aircraft.
Fri Jul 24, 2015, 08:26 PM
Jul 2015

I guess they need you at Air Force flight school to show them how its done. You can use google find anything you want to find. The internet is full of shit and google will happily send you to it. Someone will use google and find your post and start quoting it.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
20. Jeb Bush even wrote a thank you letter on Governors stationary & thanked his 'swifties' with a party
Thu Jul 23, 2015, 12:28 PM
Jul 2015

in Orlando, Florida.

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