Can he really be this tone deaf?
No, Jeb isn’t tone deaf. He knows exactly how we think. But he has decided he’s right, we’re wrong, and that he’s gonna jam it right up our ass. He hopes that will make him look strong to the democrat voter that he’s “standing up to the conservatives”.
Its an extremely cynical strategy.
From a CNN article re the same speech...Other comments included that Bush declared that "it's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties."
Mister Bush and his advisers have no (no) idea of the Richter-10 magnitude, the bone-marrow-depth, and the unyielding, determined, resoluteness of GOPer and Indy voters' absolute opposition to amnesty for illegal aliens (including amnesty by all of its deceitful euphemisms including "dreamers" and etc.)
Mister Bush does not realize that this includes the bulk of members his erstwhile GOP party.
One word (and is offered politely about how he will fare in the primaries) for Mister Bush.
¡Adiós!
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