Posted on 08/12/2015 10:41:13 AM PDT by jimbo123
Jeb Bush's competitors for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination are going to fairly extraordinary lengths to earn media coverage - lighting their phones on fire, taking a chainsaw to the tax code, using an assault rifle to cook bacon (seriously.)
Bush, though, is taking the more conventional route: The former Florida governor is raising money at a record-breaking clip, he's campaigning hard in early primary and caucus states, and he's gradually rolling out a robust policy platform.
It's a notably circumspect approach to what has become, thanks largely to Donald Trump's combustible candidacy, a roller-coaster of a primary season. But Bush's decision to keep his head down and emphasize substance over pizzazz is not a bug in his campaign - it's the central feature.
"We shouldn't be saying outrageous things that turns people off to the conservative message," Bush told a crowd in Miami last month. "I'm not a grievance candidate...I'm the tortoise in the race, but I'm a joyful tortoise."
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To reach the burritos on the top shelf...
Amnesty.
Jeb is the Anti-Trump. And there are a lot more Anti-Trumps where he came from.
Mexico
That ought to bring him up in the polls.
Mexico and Amnesty for aliens?
Shoot, I was going to say that.
No mas con Los Arbustos! No Yeb, no Jorge no nada!
“Compassionate conservatism” AKA “compassionate tyranny.”
Translation:
"We shouldn't be saying outrageous conservative things that turns
people off on to the conservative message,"
One thing he stands for — conceding to county probate judges the power to command the killing of people never even accused of a crime.
DESIGNATED LOSER - 2016 Edition
He may have to phone Bill Clinton and find out.
john ellis bush and the washington cartel.
If the Bush campaign paid me to vote for him, I’d take the money, but still not vote for him
¡Yeb! wants to be the first President of North Mexico.
As I posted before:
I can’t even imagine this Bush in the White House. First order of business: Open a new position in the First Lady’s staff: English Instructor. Revise hydraulic systems in President’s limos and Secret Service rigs so they’ll hop up and down. There’ll be nine families living in the Lincoln Bedroom. New National Anthem: “Lowrider”.
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