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Bush: Trump isn’t conservative enough to win GOP race
The HIll ^ | 08/19/2015 | Bradford Richardson

Posted on 08/19/2015 4:56:09 PM PDT by 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. 


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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Class Clown.


21 posted on 08/19/2015 5:08:31 PM PDT by TADSLOS (A Ted Cruz Happy Warrior! GO TED!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

$166 billion to get rid of illegals and stop importing new ones? I’m in.


22 posted on 08/19/2015 5:08:37 PM PDT by The Good Doctor (Democracy is the only system where you can vote for a tax that you can avoid the obligation to pay.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

From the gang who went Postal on Conservatives he now claims to be conservative.


23 posted on 08/19/2015 5:09:08 PM PDT by Zathras
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Bush: Trump isn’t conservative enough to win GOP race

Neither are you Master Jeb.

24 posted on 08/19/2015 5:12:18 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LoL Yeb!


25 posted on 08/19/2015 5:13:56 PM PDT by Red Steel (Ted Cruz: 'I'm a Big Fan of Donald Trump')
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well now Jeb, are you going to run as a Democrat then?
26 posted on 08/19/2015 5:16:56 PM PDT by AmericanCheeseFood (Walker/Cruz Cruz/Walker - I don't care which way, they're the only two conservatives we have.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Tell the frond to get caught up in a ducks leg and fly away to like way south of here.


27 posted on 08/19/2015 5:20:09 PM PDT by waterhill (I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I agree with Jeb. Trump isn’t conservative enough. Neither is Jeb.


28 posted on 08/19/2015 5:21:52 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Cruz in 2016 - No Trump. No Jeb.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

29 posted on 08/19/2015 5:24:35 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More Bush hypocrisy? Compassionate conservatism = Mo-Mexicans??? Common Core is good???

Who is not conservative???


30 posted on 08/19/2015 5:26:01 PM PDT by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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To: redfreedom

Jeb is toast. All the big money people will be lining up behind Rubio very soon.


31 posted on 08/19/2015 5:27:49 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

....as Bush speaks to a group of 150, Trump packed in 2500+.


32 posted on 08/19/2015 5:28:20 PM PDT by CASchack
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Jebby is so desperate he just can’t contain himself....

I swear, looking at him and listening to him, there is something wrong with him...is he ok in the head????


33 posted on 08/19/2015 5:28:47 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("It's the hard working, tax paying citizens of the United States that are suffering...")
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To: dforest

Jeb is troubled because he thought he could buy the GOPe nomination and Donald Trump came along and said, “Your money’s no good here.”


34 posted on 08/19/2015 5:30:03 PM PDT by ballearthout
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To: apillar

So has Yeb even said why he is running for President? At least Trump said he is running to to make America great again. I have not heard why Yeb is running.


35 posted on 08/19/2015 5:31:01 PM PDT by funfan
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; hoosiermama; Liz; LucyT; onyx
“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. ++++++++++++++ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3326776/posts?page=5 Donald Trump’s immigration tab: $166 billion Politico.com ^ | 19 August 2015 | Seung Min Kim So with help from experts at groups spanning the political spectrum — the National Immigration Forum, the Center for American Progress, the Migration Policy Institute, the Cato Institute and the American Action Forum — POLITICO rang up the cost of key provisions in Trump’s immigration proposal. Here’s how it breaks down.
36 posted on 08/19/2015 5:32:26 PM PDT by maggief
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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

I badly needed a belly laugh today. Thanks, Jeb!


37 posted on 08/19/2015 5:32:35 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; hoosiermama; Liz; LucyT; onyx

“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.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3326776/posts?page=5

Donald Trump’s immigration tab: $166 billion
Politico.com ^ | 19 August 2015 | Seung Min Kim

So with help from experts at groups spanning the political spectrum — the National Immigration Forum, the Center for American Progress, the Migration Policy Institute, the Cato Institute and the American Action Forum — POLITICO rang up the cost of key provisions in Trump’s immigration proposal. Here’s how it breaks down.


38 posted on 08/19/2015 5:33:05 PM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

...and this is from a RINO-supreme one-worlder. Laughs...lots of laughs. This guy is pathetic and a “Fredo”-type weakling.


39 posted on 08/19/2015 5:35:47 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Go away Jebra!

Another Bush is not going to be elected.


40 posted on 08/19/2015 5:37:32 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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