At Monday's No Labels event (pause to roll eyes and snicker), Donald Trump got
a question he did not like very much. "I don’t think you’re a friend to women," 18-year-old Lauren Batchelder said. "If you become president, will a woman make the same as a man, and do I get to choose what I do with my body?"
It's not the sort of thing Trump does well with—he described her as the "arrogant young woman who questioned me in such a nasty fashion," because apparently young women should not ever be allowed to ask Donald Trump policy questions. But don't cry for The Donald—he has revealed that his failures on that question shouldn't count against him because Batchelder is a Jeb! Bush volunteer.
Or, in the words of Trump adviser Daniel Scavino, Batchelder is a "Jeb plant" and "JEB is DESPERATE." Desperate Jeb may be, but I think his campaign is professional enough that if they're going to send a plant, they'd have her take her Bush campaign volunteer work off her LinkedIn profile first. The Bush campaign acknowledged that Batchelder is a volunteer, but said that "this question was not sanctioned by the campaign."
And that's another thing. Let's talk about this question that was not sanctioned by the Bush campaign: "If you become president, will a woman make the same as a man, and do I get to choose what I do with my body?" While Batchelder's political passion is to be commended, does she realize that her own candidate also opposes her getting to choose what she does with her body and wouldn't support new laws to ensure that a woman makes the same as a man? These are not like secret subtle positions Jeb! Bush holds. He's pretty proud of it.
Remember when just about every reporter in America was asking if Occupy protesters could explain what Occupy was about? Can we maybe get some of that attention on whether Jeb! Bush volunteers know what positions Jeb! Bush holds? As for Trump ... dude, we know you don't like women. You don't need to keep working quite so hard to prove it.