During an interview conducted “Easter Monday,” Jeb Bush admitted that, while the pope might be a “real disappointment” for people who expected “big changes,” the pontiff’s “attitude” could “help Catholics in public life.” “In politics, we really need to focus on language that cuts through…the divide,” Bush said. “I think about …how I can improve how I express my views,” he admitted. “Pope Francis’s lesson may just be, Bush suggests, ‘Where you say it, how you say it, is important,’” because “in the case of Francis the media, in search of sound bites, may have glossed over some of the pope’s more inconvenient underlying beliefs.”
In the above article, Bush says he’s looking for “common ground” by talking about adoption and counseling for women rather than stating that a zygote has greater value than a woman’s life. Without declaring his opposition to equality for gays, Bush wants a “consensus-oriented approach” to discrimination laws. Bush “put the plight of the poor at the center of his candidacy,” in a recent speech.
Bush is confident that this campaign style will cause the public to forget that the Republican Party caused the death, mutilation and misery of hundreds of thousands by going to war under false pretenses and threw millions into poverty around the world by taking us to the brink of a full-fledged depression. The public will not see that the GOP represents the interests of the 1%, opposes funding their children’s education and justice for workers.
As Bush noted, “the ‘obvious’ change in the Church is the ‘tone and emphasis’ Pope Francis has brought” and that that is enough to make the pope the most popular person on the planet. Enough for the public to forget that the Church is still trying to deprive women of health care around the globe and “dehumanizing” and “mobilizing” opposition against the LGBT community. Enough for the public to not even want to know that this pope has a “crisis of credibility” by promoting a Chilean bishop accused of witnessing a priest sexually abusing children and then defending him.