Monday, July 20, 2015

The hypocrisy of Jeb Bush





On Saturday, after Donald Trump questioned John McCain's war record, presidential candidate and former Florida governor, Jeb Bush tweeted this:


But in 2005, Bush, as governor of Florida, wrote a letter thanking a member of group that attacked John Kerry's war record.

It appears that Jeb stands solidly against attacks on combat veterans...just as long as those veterans are other Republicans

Via Think Progress: 
In 2004, a group called the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth spent millions of dollars attacking the military service of John Kerry, who was then the Democratic nominee for president. The group claimed that Kerry lied about his service and was awarded military honors he didn’t deserve. The basis for these claims were definitively proven false, but the group carried on with their campaign anyway. (The claims were first published in a book by Jerome Corsi, who would later gain fame for insisting that Obama had a fake birth certificate and was not born in the United States.)

After the campaign Jeb Bush, then Governor of Florida, sent a letter to George Day — a member of the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth who appeared in television advertisements trashing Kerry. Day said Kerry, a recipient of the Silver Star and three Purple Hearts, would “go down in history sometime as the Benedict Arnold of 1971.” In his letter, Bush thanks Day and the “other Swifties” for their “support of my brother in his re-elecction.” “I simply cannot express in words how much I value their willingness to stand up against John Kerry,” Bush wrote.





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