Jeb Bush: Let’s Get Rid Of Unwed Whores By Making Fun Of Them In Public

[phantom power]

Apparently we can now add The Scarlet Letter to the ever-growing list of crappy things that Conservatives wish with all their hear they could bring back. Along with slavery, war, poverty...

...today we present to you a Jeb Bush fuckup from 20 years ago, in his 1995 book Profiles In Character. How do we get unwed pregnant ladies and welfare queens and other miscreants to stop being all pregnant and moochy? By bringing back public shaming, of course! Here is your pull quote from the book:

One of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more young men are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior, no reason to feel shame. Many of these young women and young men look around and see their friends engaged in the same irresponsible conduct. Their parents and neighbors have become ineffective at attaching some sense of ridicule to this behavior. There was a time when neighbors and communities would frown on out of wedlock births and when public condemnation was enough of a stimulus for one to be careful.

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Back in the olden-timey days, when Jeb Bush had to walk uphill both ways in the snow to pull his big brother’s car out of whatever ditch he drunk drove it into, they had STANDARDS. Real ladies held aspirin between their knees to protect their downstairs holes from dick invasions, and if some bitch got knocked up by some sumbitch, everybody pointed and laughed at the lady for letting a gentleman do sex to her, like Jesus intended. Then the family would disappear the lady so she could go birth her shame-baby away from polite society. The men what impregnated the sluts? There doesn’t appear to be a historical pattern of shaming for them, dunno why.

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Of course, Bush wasn’t done being weird and gross and bad:

Bush points to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, in which the main character is forced to wear a large red “A” for “adulterer” on her clothes to punish her for having an extramarital affair that produced a child, as an early model for his worldview. “Infamous shotgun weddings and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter are reminders that public condemnation of irresponsible sexual behavior has strong historical roots,” Bush wrote.

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Of course, in 2001, Bush had a chance as Florida’s governor to put some of these ideas into practice, when he didn’t veto a “Scarlet Letter” bill, which said that pregnant single ladies whose men had not put a ring on it had to consent to having a history of all their various sexy times published in the newspaper, if they wanted to give their babbies up for adoption. To his credit, he also signed the bill to repeal the very bad law, after the courts said it was somehow unconstitutional to require ladies to write up their History Of Fucks and run it in the paper next to the Jumble.

This is all just really good stuff, to learn about Jeb Bush. It’s amazing, but he may actually prove to be the dumbest, weirdest Bush of all, which is QUITE a feat.

http://wonkette.com/587878/jeb-bush-lets-get-rid-of-unwed-whores-by-making-fun-of-them-in-public

[Warpy]

1. I'd much rather get rid of slut shaming idiots

especially when they're the scions of a family that has done its level best to destroy my country.

[daleanime]

12. +1

[KamaAina]

2. He can start with Bristol Palin

[AwakeAtLast]

21. You win the thread.

[valerief]

3. Fox spin--"1995? He was a child, barely out his teens." nt

[bunnies]

4. Wouldnt he have been 42 in 1995?

Oh, Fox.

[shenmue]

5. What a piece oh shit

[3catwoman3]

6. Jeb needs to wear a scarlet A...

...that stands for "Asshole."

[hifiguy]

15. Tattoo it on his forehead.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. That law - what the fuck were they thinking?

But the approach the legislators chose for addressing this problem — requiring women to list every sexual encounter that could have produced their child in newspaper ads, so as to track down biological fathers in advance of the child being given up for adoption — was a disgraceful and humiliating violation of privacy. Here's how the New York Times described it in 2003:

The Scarlet Letter law required women to run advertisements disclosing their names, ages, height, hair and eye color, race and weight as well as the child's name and birthplace and a description of the possible father.

It also required the women to provide details of the dates and places of sexual encounters that might have produced the child. Women were required to run the advertisements once a week for a month in the community where the child may have been conceived.

The adoption law passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities, and its major champion was a Democrat, state Sen. Walter "Skip" Campbell. But there's some question about whether many legislators were even aware the Scarlet Letter provision existed."I have to admit I'm horrified that I voted for this," Democratic state Rep. Lois Frankel told the Gainesville Sun a year later.

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/9/8751955/jeb-bush-scarlet-letter-mothers

[Initech]

8. The Scarlet Letter is this thing called fiction. ..

And I think Republicans like Jeb Bush live in a fantasy world and can't tell fantasy from reality.

[Archae]

9. That "public shaming" include his own brats?

Like the one getting hot and heavy in a car with an underage girl?

[SheilaT]

10. Once again, notice this is absolutely and totally directed against women.

The men can get off scott free.

[JDPriestly]

16. Actually, if a man wrote that article and used the words with regard to women that are

the linguistic equal to some of the words used in general about men, that man might be banned from DU.

I don't quite understand what the standard is here about the use of the "naughty" words to refer to people of one or the other gender. Could anyone be clear about that so that we can avoid being offensive in this respect? Which words are allowed and which are not? Are the words allowed as long as we let everyone know we are just talking about any Tom, "****" and Harry and not a specific person? What is the rule on this.

[erronis]

18. You are much more "delicate" about this subject

"Naughty bits" are a famous way of describing most everything that we don't want to talk about. Monty Python took this to a wonderful extreme.

(Wrote a lot more but realized that it wasn't going to endear me to the police.)

[roamer65]

11. Remember that this is Bar's favorite spawn.

You are going to get a lot of her channeled through him.

[City Lights]

19. Right...he's the one she called "brilliant." ROFL. nt

[Dont call me Shirley]

13. There needs to be a stigma attached to psychopaths breeding more useless psychopaths

Ya know, like the bushes.

[Diclotican]

14. phantom power

phantom power


He is horrible - just like his brother - who also was a horrible man.. Just as a governor - and as president.... But for some he would be the "perfect" candidate as he have all the values they want to have in a candidate...


Diclotican

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

17. How about wedded whores? Or, politicians who do Pay for Play for a living?

And, which ones do the most harm to society?

[Jack Rabbit]

20. Let's publicly shame the Bush family

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