Jeb Supports Puerto Rico Statehood

John Derbyshire
VDARE
August 11, 2015

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How crazily partial to Hispanics is Jeb Bush?  So crazily partial, he favors Puerto Rico becoming a state.

“Puerto Rican citizens ought to have the right to determine whether they want to be a state,” he said. “I think statehood is the best path, personally. To get the full benefits and responsibilities of citizenship, being a state is the only way to make that happen.”  [Puerto Rico seizes on 2016 election to push its case with candidates by Richard Luscombe; The Guardian, April 30th 2015.]

It’s an unpopular position, not likely to help Jeb’s campaign for the GOP Presidential nomination.

Conservative Intel polled Iowans likely to participate in next year’s Republican presidential caucuses with some interesting findings.

The poll asked whether respondents were more likely or less likely to support Jeb Bush for the Republican nomination due to his support for Puerto Rican statehood as the best path, reported in The Guardian. Respondents had a generally negative reaction to that position: 46% were less likely to support him, while 27% were more likely. A plurality – 28% – was somewhat less likely and 23% said it made no difference, the most common two responses, showing that Bush’s position is certainly not popular, though not necessarily toxic.  [Conservative Intel Poll: Jeb Bush’s Support for Puerto Rico Hurts Him in Iowa by J. Cal Davenport; Conservative Intel, Aug 10th 2015.]

I don’t know how good Conservative Intel’s polling is, but I’m surprised that the numbers on this aren’t a lot worse.  They were never good . . .

In 2012 Angus Reid published an instigative [sic] poll that revealed that only 21 percent of Americans supported converting Puerto Rico into the 51st state.  [The demise of the Puerto Rican statehood movement by Luis Gallardo; The Hill, June 8th 2015.]

. . . but they must surely be even worse now it’s clear that the U.S. taxpayer is in the same relation to Puerto Rico as the German taxpayer is to Greece.

And that 21 percent in 2012 was (presumably) of Americans overall, not just Iowa GOP caucus-goers.  I doubt pro-statehood sentiment among Americans has shifted that much in three years.

The status of Puerto Rico is an aspect of the National Question that badly needs addressing.

The island is a colony in all but name.  The U.S.A. should not be in the colonialism business.

The Trump administration should set the granting of independence to Puerto Rico as a high priority.

3 comments

  1. Franklin_Ryckaert

    No it is the other way round : the US is a colony of Israel.

  2. Franklin_Ryckaert

    He is a “trans-Hispanic”.

  3. Mainland America’s lawful Government under our common/natural/Christian law hasn’t existed, in truth, since the
    Articles of Confederation and our Sovereign States haven’t existed since
    1860 when the South walked out of the organic Governments. This is an interesting idea but few understand the actual layout and true national boundaries of America. DC/US Corporation is a FOREIGN jurisdiction to mainland America.Only Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands are under the lawful jurisdiction of DC/US. The “Jews” who own and run DC/US have extended a fraud, completely unlawful jurisdiction over the Mainland since 1860 and possibly since 1789 when the Constitution for the united States of America was created during a restructuring of the Government in lieu of the Articles of Confederation being put into a FRAUD DEBT via the Treaty of Paris.

    This is imperative knowledge if we are to take back America’s mainland to save White/European Americans.

    Here are a couple links explaining how a recent Corporation Court admitted these truths as these white,Southern American patriots won their case showing that the entire Corporation structure is a total fraud, opening the door for others in other states to follow in creating LAWFUL Governments again for and of WE THE PEOPLE.

    http://mainerepublicemailalert.com/2015/08/12/rule-of-law-w-va-live-stream-7-24-15/

    http://mainerepublicemailalert.com/2015/08/13/supreme-court-denies-petition-but-because-of-extraordinary-intervening-circumstances-the-case-is-not-over/

    Note, per the Declaration and in the Articles of Confederation and the united States, only WHITE MEN were acknowledged to be endowed with unlienable (yes, unlienable not unalienable) rights and I am here to tell you that you STILL have ALL of those rights on par with any King or Pope.

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