The entire Bush family can’t be trusted. Bush Senior, George Bush and now Jeb Bush.
Jeb’s wife - isn’t she the one who tried to smuggle tens of thousands of dollars of designer clothes into the country? Yes, a real sterling character.
Don’t forget Barbara and Laura! The whole family is really liberal. My pet conspiracy theory is that the Bush family consists of Dem moles sent to destroy the Republican Party from within.
I wouldn’t sign Norquist’s tax pledge either, for two reasons. One is that it’s Grover Norquist, who is as clueless on immigration and pro-Islam as any Bushie. The other reason is that I can’t see why a politician would want to put themselves in a box like that. I oppose tax hikes in general, but might there be some circumstance, some situation where it makes since to go along with some sort of tax hike? I don’t know. I doubt it, but maybe.
You’re right of course about the Bush family, and you can add George P Bush to the list. He’s Jeb’s son, who has a tendency to talk like he’s the head of La Raza. When it comes to immigration, Jeb is (like W) a self-righteous leftist. It’s his views on immigration that should make conservatives most wary of Jeb Bush, not taxes.
So I’m no fan of Jeb. Having said that, I don’t like Grover Norquist either, and conservatives should be wary of him. Norquist is every bit the liberal on immigration that the Bush family is. I’ve despised Norquist ever since I saw him cry when putting forth his liberal views on immigration at a panel televised on CSPAN.
Typical of alleged conservatives who support unending mass immigration, Norquist seems incapable of seeing the obvious truth that mass immigration inevitably pushes the country to the left. It’s amazing how someone so focused on opposing tax hikes can’t see that a low-tax platform holds almost no appeal to the immigrant communities that are growing so rapidly. A more diverse nation will vote increasingly Democratic, and that will inevitably lead to higher taxes.
So yes, conservatives should be wary of Jeb Bush, but taxes aren’t the major reason why. The main reason why is actually something he shares with Norquist...leftwing views on immigration.
More so than most know.