{"id":12567,"date":"2016-02-17T14:56:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T19:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12567"},"modified":"2016-02-17T14:57:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-17T19:57:05","slug":"making-jeb-look-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12567","title":{"rendered":"Making Jeb look good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a shameless pandering move, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JebBush\" target=\"_blank\">Jeb Bush<\/a> sent out <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JebBush\/status\/699706718419345408\" target=\"_blank\">this Tweet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">America. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TeduJkwQF3\">pic.twitter.com\/TeduJkwQF3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeb Bush (@JebBush) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JebBush\/status\/699706718419345408\">February 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Fair enough.  Although I don&#8217;t really like him, he does have a decent record on guns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Little Andrew<\/a> then had to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twcnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/politics\/2016\/02\/17\/cuomo-chides-jeb-bush-for-gun-tweet.html\" target=\"_blank\">open his mouth<\/a> and suddenly Jeb starts looking a whole lot better than before:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; \u201cI think unfortunately too much of the politics is about a race to the bottom and playing to peoples\u2019 fears,\u201d Cuomo said. \u201cTo say that a handgun is America \u2014 I mean, what are you trying to say? You\u2019re really playing to peoples\u2019 fears in the worst sense. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s helpful. I don\u2019t even think it works politically.\u201d &#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This from the man whose political career on the national stage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/n-y-gov-andrew-cuomos-job-performance-approval-ratings-slip-poll-1431381787\" target=\"_blank\">came to end<\/a> when he decided to promote gun control.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D12567&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12567\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12567\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12567\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a shameless pandering move, Jeb Bush sent out this Tweet: America. pic.twitter.com\/TeduJkwQF3 &mdash; Jeb Bush (@JebBush) February 16, 2016 Fair enough. Although I don&#8217;t really like him, he does have a decent record on guns. Little Andrew then had to open his mouth and suddenly Jeb starts looking a whole lot better than before: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D12567&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12567\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12567\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=12567\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2016","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12571,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12567\/revisions\/12571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}