Please note, though -- and old conservatives with long memories will and do remember this -- that Bush's statement is entirely in character with the sandbag job that business-wing "economic conservative" Republicans have done repeatedly on Main Streeters who have been more conservative than they.
Nelson Rockefeller called Goldwater delegates "fascists" and compared them directly to "Nazis" on live national television, with premeditation, during the Republican convention that extended him the courtesy of five minutes to deliver a platform minority report in prime time. That was a major backstab that has never been commented on again by the commentariat (who are just about all 'Rats anyway).
At a later convention, Rocky actually shot conservative delegates the bird -- I didn't know he'd done it since I didn't see a photo for a long time afterward (again, press self-censorship and "all the news that fits").
So remember, boys and girls, the business wing of the GOP is in business for themselves, and their loyalty only goes one way.
It's a bit of a mystery to me why, at this late date, Bush feels moved to articulate a very unpopular position in a way that subserves the interests only of the business/employer lobby who want to drown the country in cheap immigrant labor, and of the Democratic Party.
“The Republican Party is sounding more like the socialist Democrats with each passing day at the expense of Conservatism. We have a one party system that is destroying democracy.”
Agreed.
We now have the Republican National Socialist Party and the Democrat National Socialist Party.