“Hell yeah, I would. No look, you gotta, you gotta step up, man.
—Jeb Bush, 9 Nov 2015, in response to the question whether he’d kill Hitler as a baby, if he could
Not to be ragging on Jeb Bush, because (despite an earlier post) for the most part, I just don’t give him no nevermind at all. But these remarks really struck me, for two reasons.
First, because he’s willing to say—while campaigning for president of our country—that he would commit infanticide, if he knew in advance the child’s future life history and found it sufficiently objectionable.
Second, because he did not say, while campaigning for president of our country, “If I could go back in time to when Hitler was a baby? I’d kidnap him so I could raise him in a loving, nurturing home where he’d have the chance to mature into a loving, caring person himself, instead of a genocidal monster.”
Apparently, murder is the only solution to the problem he could come up with, or it’s the only one he thought Republican voters would want to hear.