http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/25/1424818/-Jeb-Bush-Pope-Francis-is-not-a-scientist-so-he-should-shut-up-about-climate-change?detail=email
Jeb! Bush is obviously not up to date on pope-related viral memes, or he would not have given this particular reason Pope Francis should shut up about climate change already:
"He's not a scientist, he's a religious leader," Bush said, according to a video posted by the Democratic opposition research group American Bridge.
To be fair, the widely shared meme in question claims that Francis has a master's degree in chemistry; while he has a degree as a chemical technician, it is not a master's degree. NONETHELESS, you've got a Latin American studies major telling a guy who studied chemistry and worked as a chemist and is in agreement with scientific consensus to shut up because he's not a scientist.
And seriously, I'm not a scientist but I'm able to look at the overwhelming scientific consensus and conclude that I'm with the scientists, not the Republican politicians interested mainly in the continuing right of corporations to do whatever the hell they want, on this one. So Republicans can really take their "I'm not a scientist but I'm comfortable dismissing what scientists say and also what non-scientists who agree with the scientists say" schtick and drown it in the bathtub they've got waiting for the government.
Bush also wants to "Put aside Pope Francis on the subject of any political conversation," where "political conversation" is defined as "topic on which he disagrees with me."
okay republicans don't seem to be anything that involves running a gov't or being a politician that answers to they're constituents and not their donors, so using Bush's theory the entire right wing republican party of stupid which they seem not to recognize they fill that bill more than any other need to shut their collective mouths and do their part for air pollution.
sure are a lot of Catholic politicians who disrespect the Pope to the point of telling him to stifle himself all because he does not buy into their programs of bigotry, exclusion, discrimination and just overall dissing of those not them. they need to try and connect with this decade let alone the people or they will see more defections from their stupid party and their evangelical cults, losing millennials shortens their time to be purveyors of hate with any numbers a dying species.
