Our View | Jeb Bush: true conservative

The Longboat Key Observer ^ | December 10, 2014 | Staff

[2ndDivisionVet]

Severely conservative or some such.

[Sans-Culotte]

But here’s a surprise: Adam C. Smith, political editor of the liberal Tampa Bay Times, authored this piece last Friday refuting with evidence that Bush as governor was “arch-conservative” and far from a “moderate squish.”

That was then; this is now. I will never vote for a candidate who will not define America's borders and protect them.

[vanilla swirl]

Liberal calls Jeb a conservative.
Well there you have it.
We have our anointed candidate!

[nascarnation]

NO NO NO not another Bush.

[GraceG]

“This is a guy who probably has as conservative a record as governor as anybody I’ve ever seen,” Weatherford said, “and he has one of the most successful records as governor of anybody I’ve ever seen.”

Who the hell is he comparing him to? Jerry Frickin Brown???

Compare him to Bobby Jindal or Nikki Haley and Jeb LOOKS like Jerry Frickin Brown...

[Army Air Corps]

This publication needs to sell their snake oil elsewhere.

[2ndDivisionVet]

As I understand it, the Florida Keys are gayer than a Maypole, so that might explain it.

[Slyfox]

[Ohioan]

Bush may be a nice guy. He may be Conservative on some economic issues. But he is flagrantly "liberal" on immigration; careful to disassociate himself from Florida's conservative history; clearly accepting of the Federal moves to the Left under his brother's Presidency.

At a time when we need a President who will stand up for American tradition & continuity; he is clearly not the one.

By the way, has he ever repudiated his family support for the idea of a new "World Order?"

William Flax

[ryan71]

Longboat Key is not one of the Florida Keys. It’s in the Sarasota/Bradenton area. Mostly elderly.

[ryan71]

Longboat Observer?

Were there no entangled pelicans to report on today?

[GeronL]

pro-amnesty and pro-commie core just to get started and he claims the establishment candidate mantle

[Responsibility2nd]

Well now. If the The Longboat Key Observer says Jebbie is a true conservative, then it MUST be true.

/s

[2ndDivisionVet]

My mistake. I lived in Florida as a child several times, but I’d never heard of it.

[Zathras]

If he was SO good, why didn’t he run for the Senate of FL?

[nascarnation]

Florida State Senate seems like a pretty low end job for a former governor.

[americanparatrooper]

Jeb Bush is an open border crony in the back pockets of the chamber of communist!

I will NEVER support this RINO under any circumstance and I don't care if he is the only one standing after they (RINO corporate backers)rig the primaries!

PERIOD

[Sherman Logan]

Likewise, back when Gov. Bush was at the vanguard of pressing for greater education accountability — and more private school vouchers — virtually every conservative political figure was on the same page. Today, the Common Core education standards adopted by more than 40 states are widely vilified by Republican activists

Unless I'm confused, the opposition to CC is based on two things: fedgov isn't the right organization to control it, disagreement with implementation, not the idea of measurement.

[EternalVigilance]

The most important conservative principle is the God-given, unalienable nature of the individual, equal right to live.

Governor Bush showed no regard for that principle at the heart of his sworn oath when he stood idly by and let them torture Terri Schindler Schiavo to death.

So, as far as I’m concerned, Jeb Bush has in no way earned the honorable title of “conservative.”

[stephenjohnbanker]

” “He is thoughtful and informed, but there is nothing liberal about Jeb Bush. He is an arch-conservative,” said Dan Gelber, who as a Democratic leader in the Legislature”

LMAO!!