I miss satire.
Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) said in an interview Monday that he would personally kill an infant Adolf Hitler.
“Hell yeah, I would!” he told The Huffington Post when asked about killing the Nazi leader as a baby.
What makes this story is how Jeb Bush is so into it. Not just I’d kill baby Hitler, but, “Hell yeah!” I would kill baby Hitler! I'd snap his little neck like dry pasta, if that's what you want from me! Just say the word, voters!
“You gotta step up, man,” the 2016 GOP presidential candidate said. "That would be key.
“The problem with going back in history and doing that, as we know from the series -- what’s the series with Michael J. Fox called? The ‘Back to the Future’ series -- is that it could have a dangerous effect on everything else,” Bush added. "But I’d do it. I mean -- [it is] Hitler.”
I admire this so much. Not even the slightest political hesitation about offing a baby, but then you start thinking about movies and how sometimes it has unintended consequences and whoa, man. Consequences.
And, as an aside, we now know what we should have done to convince Jeb’s brother George that maybe deposing a Middle Eastern regime in a cheap, no-casualties war that would pay for itself might have unforeseen consequences. We should have shown him those damn Michael J. Fox movies. He would have gotten it then.