Jeb responds

Sometimes I just love the rapid news cycle (other times, not so much).   Today was one I like.   Jeb Bush was asked whether he still supports those comments in his 1995 book about shaming unwed mothers and irresponsible fathers.

He carefully avoided talking about shame and simply said that he continued to think that it's very important for fathers to be involved in the lives of their children and then shifted to decrying the number of unwed mothers in our country.

As political damage control, this was a good response.   As a voter (who will never vote for Jeb), I would have preferred for him to say shame is never a good tactic for trying to motivate people to change their behavior.   But that's asking a lot for a politician who has to pander to his right-wing base to try to win the primary.

Ralph