Bush: Trump isn’t conservative enough to win GOP race

The HIll ^ | 08/19/2015 | Bradford Richardson

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump is not authentic enough a conservative to deserve the Republican nomination.

 

“Mr. Trump doesn’t have a conservative record,” Bush said at a town-hall meeting Wednesday in New Hampshire. “He was a Democrat longer than he was a Republican. He’s given more money to Democrats than he’s given to Republicans.”

 

“We’re a conservative party, aren’t we, the Republican Party?” Bush asked.

 

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He also slammed the billionaire businessman for his support of popular liberal positions in the past, such as a tax on assets and a single-payer healthcare system.

 

“Even on immigration, the language is pretty vitriolic, for sure, but hundreds of billions of dollars of cost to implement his plans is not a conservative plan,” Bush said, referring to Trump’s recently announced immigration plan, which initial estimates put at $166 billion.

 

Trump, meanwhile, was holding his own New Hampshire town hall at the same time, 20 miles down the road in Merrimack.

 

“Because Bush draws so poorly, I figured it would be a good time to draw a crowd,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal on Monday.

 

“Someone should tell Mr. Trump he will be trying to troll us from an entirely different county,” a Bush spokesman retorted.

 

Trump leads New Hampshire’s GOP presidential race with 18 percent support, according to a Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll, with Bush in second place with 13 percent.

 

While Bush was quick to bash Trump, he did offer praise to another GOP primary rival, Carly Fiorina.

 

“We have some really good men and women – well, one woman, who is much more talented than the other team’s woman,” Bush said, commending Fiorina at the expense of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

 

Fiorina is drawing 9 percent support in New Hampshire, good for fifth place in the Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll. 

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Jethro is a pretty darned good comedian!

[Sasparilla]

Yawn. Snore...jebbie.

[skeeter]

This is the jerk who sought out the party's leading RINOs to determine the best way to win the nomination without having to appeal to the conservative base.

[apillar]

Jeb? Jeb Who? Bush? Is he still in the race?

[junta]

Puppet

[RginTN]

This from the guy ignoring Conservatives...funny as heck!

[SaveFerris]

s/b Trump : Bush isn’t conservative enough to win GOP race

[Tennessee Nana]

Chimney Jebbie complains about the pot..

[chris37]

[timestax]

[Fungi]

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha...... Jebbie, go home to mama, you will never be president.

[Always A Marine]

The pot has called the kettle black. No to Jeb; I am tired of lesser evils who are in league with the other team. Just no.

[dowcaet]

What would any member of the Bush dynasty know about conservatism?

[Diogenesis]

Jeb, complicit murderer of Terri Schiavo, and
everyone murdered by his LOVE for open borders,
is a far from “conservative” as rat sh&t is from
french cuisine.

[AmusedBystander]

There will have to be a new phrase coined to replace “broken glass Republicans” to describe the huge numbers who will vote for Trump no matter what. He has earned his spot on the ballot before the first primary vote has even been cast.

[redfreedom]

When did the RINO GOPe start caring about being conservative? Do they really think the general public is that stupid? Just about every thing they say or do pisses off the public even more which equates to giving Trump more support.

I really think they do not know what to do about Trump.

But no matter who is on top that is not their pick, such as Cruz, they’d still be all over him pushing their little Jebbie.

[dforest]

Jeb’s townhall tonight looks like close down time at the morgue.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

He’s probably taking “talk like a goofbal” lessons from the same guy who taught 0bama how to lie with every word uttered.

[AmericanCheeseFood]

Neither are you Jeb ma’boy, neither are you.

[Crooked Constituent]

At least Trump is evolving to the right. Bush continues to drift leftward.