[ZULU]

“His first year could have been a year of enormous accomplishment had he focused on things where there was more common ground,” Bush said, arguing that he believed Obama made the “purely political calculation” to run a more partisan administration. ?

WHAT is this guy SMOKING???????????????????????

[SECURE AMERICA]

“Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground

Unlike your Dad or what passes for a Republican today, Reagan found his accommodation from a position of strength not one of weakness and lack of spine..............

[mkjessup]

Hey Jebbie?

STFU, you pathetic sack o' RINO-sh*t, go look up Judge George W. Greer and see if he still has your balls floating in formaldehyde on his trophy shelf, Ronald Reagan would NEVER have let a pipsqueak, legally blind backwater probate judge like Greer get away with murdering Terri Schiavo via judicial fiat. The Gipper would have personally led the Florida National Guard and the FDLE to rescue Terri where she was being denied food and water, and condemned to death, because he had GUTS, something you didn't have, and never WILL have!

And to those few remaining BushBots who are quick to say "what about freedom of speech?", this here is FREEDOM OF SPEECH too, so STAY OUT DA BUSHES!

[leprechaun9]

Hey Jebbie, What happened to that accomodation of your dad to agree to TAX INCREASES in exchange for SPENDING CUTS?

What happened to Boehner's agreement to increase the DEBT LIMIT in exchange for SPENDING CUTS over ten years?

Guess what Jebbie, THEY DIDN'T HAPPEN! WHY? Because LIBERALS, be they Republicraps or Democraps, believe that ACCOMODATION means adopting LIBERAL beliefs!

How is your good buddy, DINGY HARRY REID, doing with the BUDGET? Oh, that's right, we haven't had a BUDGET in over three years! Without a Budget, there are no cuts, ONLY THE BASELINE SPENDING INCREASES THAT ARE MANDATED BY LAW!

The 21 Democrap Senators due for reelection this November should be the PRIMARY focus, but of course, they are not. Such as effort would upset too many of the LIBERAL REPUBLICRAPS!

[stratman1969]

Hey Jebby, let me educate you. Reagan almost didn’t become the nominee.....in 1980. Remember “he’s too old” “he’s too extreme?” Yes, all that was said by the Country Club GOP establishment and their handpicked candidate in 1980 who was...let me guess....last name was BUSH. Oh, and remember this one....”voodoo economics?” Who said that?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Jeb Bush Says His Father and Reagan Would Lose Out in Today’s GOP

Admittedly, he's half right.

[Mister Da]

This is pure nonsense.

The truth is, The US has been steadily moving Leftward since FDR. RR would be considered far more conservative today.

GHWB was never a conservative. He was a card carrying, fully entitled member of the ruling class, neither liberal nor conservative.

[LibLieSlayer]

jeb bush is a progressive idiot, open borders, citizen rights for illegal invaders, amnesty lover.

LLS

[The Duke]

Who needs the old guard when we have Allen West today?

[MortMan]

Jeb misunderstands conservatives, I think.

I want a political leader who personally and professionally espouses conservative views - that believes them to his or her core. Politics (theoretically) is an art of compromise, cajoling unlike-minded people into doing something close to right. Realistically, the only way a conservative could get 95% of what he wanted was to rule as a dictator, much like our present predicament (from the other side).

Just my $.02, naturally.

[Lakeshark]

Here are JB's actual comments: “Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad — they would have a hard time if you define the Republican party — and I don’t — as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for disagreement, doesn’t allow for finding some common ground,” Bush said, adding that he views the hyper-partisan moment as “temporary.”

Commentary from another site: BuzzFeed staff did not provide the comment where Bush said, as they paraphrased, “that both Ronald Reagan and his father George H. W. Bush would have had a difficult time getting nominated by today’s ultra-conservative Republican Party.” Jeb never called his party “ultra-conservative” (at least not in any text they provided).

But, golly gee whiz, the headline fits the narrative as does the line quoted above. Guess they missed that little word, “if.” Jeb never said the Republican Party had an orthodoxy, merely offered a hypothetical view of the party — which he singled by that word.

In the very article, the BuzzFeed staff did report that, “Bush also had praise for Rep. Paul Ryan for proposing a budget and disdain for Democrats for refusing to engage it.” Doesn’t seem that a man who praises a man like Ryan, widely admired in Republican circles, would also call the party “ultra-conservative.”

Bush, they do note, “also blamed President Obama for much of the conflict.” Wonder what that notion didn’t get more prominence.In this article, Fred Barnes details just how the Democrat “has shown little or no interest in taking GOP proposals, alternatives, or tweaks seriously, or even considering them at all.”

Doesn't it make you feel great that you were had (once again) by ABC news? Just keep stamping "sucker" on your own foreheads.....

[sickoflibs]

Whining RINO Bush!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Jeb is just bitter because the Bushes "Would Lose Out in Today’s GOP."

[Gator113]

What Jeb Bush has had to say is not so important, as it is to figuring out why he is saying it.

He has come out of his cave when we are less that 150 days before the election..... why?

What piece of the pie is he after and at whose table will he eat that pie?