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Bush works hard to win support from tea party, Koch Brothers, wins polite applause
The Minneapolis Star Tribune ^ | August 21, 2015 | Thomas Beaumont, The Associated Press

Posted on 08/22/2015 7:16:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Casting himself as a tax-cutting, passionate government reformer, Jeb Bush drew merely polite applause Friday from thousands of the nation's most-active tea party conservatives gathered at the billionaire industrialist Koch brothers' summit.

Only when the Republican presidential candidate wrapped up his 20-minute speech by calling for a military buildup did the more than 3,000 conservatives from around the nation join in a sustained cheer for Bush, a familiar face in American politics but a newcomer in front of the tea party crowd.

"I promise you, if I'm elected president of the United States, I will restore the traditional role of the United States as a leader for peace and security," Bush declared at the annual summit of Americans for Prosperity.

He snapped a salute to the audience before he left the stage....

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Florida; Ohio; Texas; Wisconsin; Campaign News; Parties
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bush winning the suport of the tea party? Never going to happen.


21 posted on 08/22/2015 7:44:23 PM PDT by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Steely Tom

I’m steeling it


22 posted on 08/22/2015 7:45:50 PM PDT by hoosiermama ( Read my lips: no more Bushes)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

23 posted on 08/22/2015 8:24:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He deserves no more than a polite applau.


24 posted on 08/22/2015 8:31:57 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: nascarnation

I like the thought of Mrs. Bill being eased out for that reason. The Democrats will stay home if Sanders and Biden and probably Warren in the running without Mrs. Bill.


25 posted on 08/22/2015 8:34:17 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: grey_whiskers

One way to arrange those letters makes as much sense as the other.


26 posted on 08/22/2015 8:37:24 PM PDT by arthurus (It's true.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Poor Jeb. $100 million doesn’t buy as much fervor as it used to, especially when the RNC has pissed off the base for 15 years.


27 posted on 08/22/2015 8:39:36 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: hoosiermama

28 posted on 08/22/2015 9:01:07 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bush needs to look at this... update himself about what the Tea Party thinks about immigration:

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE


29 posted on 08/22/2015 9:15:33 PM PDT by GOPJ ("Hillary done in by Anchor Emails" - freeper AU72)
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To: uncitizen

Bush, the RNC, and the old guard republicans have made it abundantly clear; that Tea Party People like me are whacko birds, nutzos, unhinged, crazies, and choose whatever insult you want and insert here,___________.
The RNC doesn’t want TEA PARTY PEOPLE like me, we are unstable and won’t toe the RNC line.
Well they can just KISS MY SKINNY, WHITE, HAIRY, REDNECK, ANTI-ILLEGAL ALIEN, ANTI-UN, ANTI-ABORTION, ANTI-GUN CONTROL, ANTI-NWO, ANTI-UNCONSTITUTIONAL ass goodby.
Worst part of it is; I always considered myself a pretty good Republican, in the old PALEOCON mold.
Like RONALD THE MAGNIFICENT said about the Democrat Party,”I DIDN’T LEAVE THEM, THEY LEFT ME”.


30 posted on 08/22/2015 9:50:35 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bush is pro-Amnesty. Discussion over.

Bring on Ted Cruz!


31 posted on 08/22/2015 11:48:00 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: headstamp 2

I don’t know why JEB! is doing this. After all, he did say he didn’t need help from conservatives to win the election.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/02/jeb-bush-republicans-don-t-need-conservatives-to-win-white-house-should-not-defund-exec-amnesty/


32 posted on 08/22/2015 11:52:34 PM PDT by Waryone
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A military build up and tax cuts. Yay.


33 posted on 08/23/2015 4:28:54 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“I promise you”: three untrue words from the mouths of a Bush!


34 posted on 08/23/2015 4:31:10 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: 5th MEB

Better stick around a little longer, at least for the 2016 primaries and possibly the closing of the whole GOP thereafter


35 posted on 08/23/2015 4:32:19 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The polite applause is appropriate when a candidate expresses an opinion with which you agree, even if overall you would not choose to support him.


36 posted on 08/23/2015 10:36:44 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Theodore R.

Oh I will stick around and vote a little longer I think; but since 2008 I only work and vote for those candidates that in my opinion are as close to the Constitution as I am.


37 posted on 08/24/2015 5:45:03 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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