Jeb Bush: ‘Wrong’ To Suggest Paul Ryan Lied In Acceptance Speech

[ProSense]

Jeb Bush: ‘Wrong’ To Suggest Paul Ryan Lied In Acceptance Speech

Pema Levy

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has largely sat this election cycle out. From the sidelines, he chides his party for not reaching out more to Latinos — thereby earning him a reputation as savvy and independent and provoking whispers that he’s prepping for a 2016 presidential run.

But on Thursday morning, Bush was every bit the team player when he defended the fibs in Paul Ryan’s speech Wednesday night.

First, Bush defended Ryan’s assertion that President Obama is to blame for a GM plant that closed in 2008 under President George W. Bush. “Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said: ‘I believe that if our government is there to support you … this plant will be here for another hundred years,’” Ryan said in his speech. “That’s what he said in 2008. Well, as it turned out, that plant didn’t last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day.” But Jeb Bush claimed that this was not “misleading.”

“No not at all,” Bush said. “That’s exactly — those were the words Barack Obama used. It was a campaign promise and it is yet another campaign promise unfulfilled.”

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http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/jeb-bush-ryan-rnc-speech.ph

Jeb, you're a clown.

You can always tell when Republicans are in damage control.

(Eric "Etch-A-Sketch&quot Fehrnstrom: Ryan Didn’t Say Wisconsin Plant Closed Under Obama
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021231631

Paul Ryan stands on a foundation of lies
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021231527

[malaise]

1. Well his brother was pathologically mendacious

They are all LIARS

[indepat]

12. Fu*k Jebbie, the entire clan, and all the

RW neocon liars and dissemblers who are mendacious prevaricators to their rotten core and essence.

[Sherman A1]

2. Of course,

It would be wrong. The Esteemed Mr. Ryan is simply conservative.

Conservative with the truth.....

[2pooped2pop]

3. we're not suggesting.

We're calling him out. He's a bold faced reliarcan.

[Tennessee Gal]

4. Oh, Jeb, poor Jeb.

The government should have been there for that plant and your idiot brother was President at the time, moron.

And Paul Ryan did nothing to help that plant.

So, cry us a river, Jeb. You are a fool.

[Angry Dragon]

5. BFEE

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. Does Jeb Bush not understand the meaning of the word "if"?

[Marr]

7. He's right, it should be flatly stated.

"Suggesting" is for wimps.

[nolabear]

8. Word's out that Jeb is the Mystery Speaker. Welcome to 2016!

[Waiting For Everyman]

9. Knowingly defending lies is lying too.

Not the brightest move in the world, Jebby.

[KansDem]

10. Oh? This from a man whose father lied about "Iraqi soldiers ripping Kuwaiti babies from incubators?"

And "leaving them on the floor?"

And whose brother lied about WMDs? And about his seeing the first plane hit the WTC, then hearing about it, then seeing it, then hearing about it, and so on and so on?

The Bush Family is a Family of Lies...

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

11. Ed Schultz just read the full Obama quote...

He never promised to save the Janesville plant. He was talking about federal support to energy efficient vehicles, and that if workers received the support to create next generation vehicles, the plant could survive.

The plant was already schedule for closure in February 2008, when Obama made that statement, and it had been on the "to be closed" list since 2006. To suggest that it was the result of anything the Obama did as President is a big whopping lie.

It was a combination of the shitty Bush economic policies and a reorganization of General Motors.

[ProSense]

13. Yes, but the quote

is irrelevant. What Obama said in 2008, even if being distorted by Republicans, is irrelevant. He wasn't President, and the plant closed before he was President.

Conflating the two gives the impression that they're related.

[progressivebydesign]

15. The Scorched Earth Romney Camp deals only in lies, and cut and paste.

Their entire campaign is built on lies and distortions and frankly... cut and pastes to make their point. They are truly become experts at the Third Reich style of messaging. I mean that truly, without an ounce of hyperbole. That is where they are getting their ideas.

[ananda]

14. Yes, that's because the word "suggest" is wrong.

I "assert" absolutely that Ryan lied.