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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More Government.
A kinder gentler machine gun hand
La familia Boosh.
Himself, like most politicians.
The only thing I ever hear Jeb say is that he was the governor of Florida.
He makes guacamole. That’s about all I remember about him.
Jeb is the fastest way to third world status for the US.
Sitting on a board of directors of a corporation that helped fund millions to Planned Parenthood says it all about Jeb. When confronted with it he says he didn’t know. Enough with the Bushs’ already,
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