To me, he was done when his last name was "Bush."
I don't get it. Shouldn't we be shaming the fathers? They seem to be the ones that walk out on a child more often than not...
EXACTLY. I don't think the government should encourage "shaming" of anyone, we can only solve problems in society through understanding and compassion (those things can't be legislated, it needs to be voluntary) , but if it's anyone's "fault" it's the one who walks out, which is normally the father.
The idea to shame a single mother where the child(ren)'s father left her is certainly victim blaming at it's most disgusting iteration. While, again, encouraging "shaming" isn't something a government should be doing, shaming a deadbeat father is reasonable and he deserves it. The social-conservative outlook of being anti-sex is too far, but it's a fact that 2-parent families are, as a rule of thumb, better than 1.
This was something Jeb wrote in 1995, 20 years ago, before he was governor. Yes, it's stupid stuff to say, and it will be hard to track back on it without alienating everyone, but people have flip-flopped several times in 20 years. If this is brought up, I'm sure he'll find a way to deflect it.
He'll lose, probably in the primaries but if Republicans are stupid the general, but this won't be a major cause of his loss, I don't think.
