Republican presidential candidate and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush told “Fox News Sunday” that the Republican Party will miss House Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) in the “the long run.”
“I admire John Bohener greatly, he’s a great public servant,” Bush told Fox News anchor Chris Wallace. “He left at the apex of his time, in service to the country with the Pope speaking at Congress.”
Bush said a conservative President who could work with a conservative Congress would fix many of the problems Boehner has talked about.
“I think people are going to miss him in the long run because he’s a person who’s focused on solving problems,” he said.
Here’s the video, from Fox News, below. Bush’s comments on Boehner start at the 4 minute mark:
Jeb!, the same lunatics who are voting for Trump and Carson are busy celebrating the demise of Boehner- and the problem is your own Party. Maybe its time to realize that you are vying to lead a racist, sexist, classist, anti-American group of people.
Heretic! They’ll burn him at the stake given the chance.
Jeb! just doesn’t do politics good, does he? When he doesn’t need to offend a part of America that heretofore hasn’t been in the crosshairs of the GOP, he blabbers about Asian anchor babies. Now, when there’s literally no advantage he can reap from defending a guy who’s so widely reviled by the GOP base and his colleagues in the House that he retires, Bush defends him.
He may well be right. If the ensuing turmoil in the Republican party costs them not only the presidency and the senate, but even the House, they will be wishing they still had Boehner to kick around.
“I will admit Speaker Boehner didn’t actually solve any problems but he did focus on them.”