Jeb Bush had a quick comeback on
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" program when he was asked whether President Barack Obama or a "potential President Donald Trump" would be the best choice to nominate a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday in Texas.
"I actually think I'm a better choice than those two," Bush told BBC World News America lead anchor Katty Kay, who asked the question while sitting on the program's panel.
"That's all you're going to get," show host Joe Scarborough told her, laughing. "You can ask it again, but that's all you'll get."
"That's why I wake up in the morning, stay up late at night campaigning," Bush said. "Of course, I believe I'm the right person, and I've done it as the governor of the state of Florida. My record is pretty clear — a consistent, conservative view about who should be appointed to the courts."
Scarborough said he observed that when Bush was governor, he "didn't want judicial activists on the court, whether they were liberal judicial activists or conservative activists, but he wanted someone who would read the law and interpret it, but not make the law."
"What I loved about Scalia, first of all, he wrote for a guy who's not a lawyer," said Bush. "I love reading his opinions. They were lively and he was passionate about defending liberty, which is what we need to do now."
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