Bill Maher Accuses Jeb Bush of Converting to Catholism for Political Gain
After using his final “New Rule” of the night last Friday to take on “cynical turd” Jeb Bush for what he saw as his hypocrisy on marijuana, Bill Maher continued to hit the former Florida governor on Tuesday with a blog post about his relatively recent conversion to Catholicism.
“Did you know Jeb Bush is Catholic? Neither did I,” Maher wrote, before pointing out that Bush “converted to Catholicism in 1996 — 22 years after marrying his Mexican-born wife, Columba, — and conveniently between the first time he ran for governor (and lost) and the second time he ran, and won.”
“The Bushes play election hardball, but they also play the margins. They look for every little edge,” he added.
As Maher put it, George W. Bush became an Evangelical Christian before running for governor of Texas, a state where 34% of voters fall in that category. Similarly, Jeb Bush went from Protestant to Catholic and won the governorship in a state where 26% of voters are Catholic.
“The voters in both states were only 15 percent mainline Protestant, the faith with which Bush children come originally installed,” Maher concluded. “Now, of course, who am I to question God’s power to work wondrous change? I’m just saying the Bush boys tend to believe in whatever juju the locals do.”
According to a 2012 Gallup poll, 52% of Americans are Protestant or other Christian faction while only 23% are Catholic. So if his conversion did indeed help Jeb Bush win in Florida, it could hurt him in a national election.
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