Jeb Bush Throws His Brother Under The Bus At McCain Town Hall

During a Florida town hall event with John McCain, Jeb Bush appeared to throw his brother George under the bus. Bush gave a rousing talk about throwing the bums out of Washington. Perhaps he forgot that his brother is the chief bum? Read more here. See the excerpt below:

"Reform becomes contagious," former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, brother of the current president, said at a McCain town hall meeting this week in Orlando. "If you start to dream bigger dreams and you start challenging the basic assumptions, you can change how things work, and we've done it in Florida, and the Good Lord knows we need to do it in Washington, D.C., and John McCain is the right guy at the right time to make that happen."

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Comments

[candlepower]

10:21 PM on 09/19/2008

Just don't blink
or you could get a virus
Republican­'s don't blink, when you're in heavy negotiatio­ns with vladimir putin don't blink as he may steal something while your eyes are closed, for that split second.

[Indieguy]

04:37 PM on 09/20/2008

And GWB looked into Putins eyes and saw his soul and they became BFF. OK, so the R's don't blink, but they'll take you to the brink, or over cliff, whichever comes first.

[messy]

07:48 PM on 09/19/2008

Jeb has been wanting to do that since before he was twelve.

[SENATORCALLENBOWE]

11:34 AM on 09/19/2008

AS HES TEXTING TO GEORGE W. ON HIS PHONE :)

[AdaArmstrong]

08:27 AM on 09/19/2008

As a former employee of the State of Florida, I can confidentl­y assert that Jeb Bush is an arrogant bully, not unlike the rest of his republican pals. Taking a stroll in many areas of the Sunshine State is like a tropical version of "Night of the Living Dead". The worst part about Jeb and the rest of them is that they're phonies. Eviserate the social services in Florida, demoralize the public schools, kick everybody who's not part of the country club set in the guts and, hey! You're a reformer!

[thoughtsoutloud]

08:00 AM on 09/19/2008

Jeb probably means it, he is a much better guy than his brother, or any of the brothers for that matter. Just read up on his life.
Sad for the whole country that the clownish older brother decided to go for the brass ring.

[PazparaTodod]

08:49 AM on 09/19/2008

The ONLY GOOD BUSH is Colunba (Jeb's wife)

[PioneerKing]

10:17 PM on 09/18/2008

The republican­s look like the Keystone Cops. This kind of stuff is what comedy shows are made from.

[MrsPeel]

09:55 PM on 09/18/2008

Dad always did like Jeb best...

[danoj]

09:31 PM on 09/18/2008

Don't think he was tossing W under the bus as W can't run again.

[dadw5boys]

08:30 PM on 09/18/2008

Jeb will never be able to cover up his gun running to Central America troo many people know .

[AurigaRa]

08:26 PM on 09/18/2008

Jeb's on base.

watch out Sarah

[TRYKER]

08:16 PM on 09/18/2008

Its amazing that the Bush family is even allowed in this country. It wasn't long ago, but before W was elected...­George Sr said: "If Americans knew what we had done to this country, they would ride us out of town on a rail."
THEN we elected W!!

...well, no, not actually, but we accepted the dunce without firing one shot.
If McCain steals this one....

[watchTVgetSTUPID]

07:59 PM on 09/18/2008

Why did he not have Neil Bush pump up the crowd? Oh yeah that's right. Neil on the board of directors of Silverado Savings and Loan Bank looted it into bankruptcy­. Neil Bush cost the taxpayers over a billion dollars.

Under oath Neil Bush was asked about the kickbacks he recieved from those he lended money to. Bush said the money he received were not gifts, they were loans that were never expected to be payed back. I only can assume the president'­s brother did not want to incriminat­e himself on tax evasion charges and loans are not taxable whereas gifts are taxable.

[TRYKER]

08:18 PM on 09/18/2008

Neil went into "Education materials and supplies". Thats why we have NCLB...and why they are deliberate­ly dumbing down our children.

[dadw5boys]

08:23 PM on 09/18/2008

Daddy Bush removed the investigat­ors from the case before they could get a trail date.
By the time new Investigat­ors were assigned 2 months later all the evidence against Niel and G.W. BUSH had disappeare­d.

Dan Rather stayed on this story for months even after all the other press has walked away.

Dan Rather was setup as pay back for destorying the Bush name with his continued reporting on this Illegal Activity from the Office of the President to protect his own children from spending 10 years in jail for bank fraud !!!!!!!!

[watchTVgetSTUPID]

07:46 PM on 09/18/2008

To be a Republican­, one must be driven to embrace suspended disbelief. Just like a fantasy movie where the Republican transforms himself into the champion of Democratic values while transformi­ng the Democrats into the Republican­s.

[Biffmeister]

07:45 PM on 09/18/2008

They've all become reactionar­y. Some Republican­s are blaming the Republican­(s). A hell yes mentality develops, and everyone jumps on the bandwagon. "Darn right, we've got to get us out of office." When's "Dubbya" gonna say "I'm gonna fire me--I've got it coming."
Aim at your own foot.

[nivek]

07:31 PM on 09/18/2008

What was wrong with that?