Mike Huckabee: Jeb Bush More to Right Than His Brother (facepalm)

Newsmax ^ | Tuesday, 20 Jan 2015 06:53 PM | Bill Hoffmann

[Olog-hai]

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee—who’s mulling another run for president—says his potential rival, Jeb Bush, is a lot more conservative than people think—even further to the right than his brother, George W. Bush.

Asked Tuesday on The Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV whether the former Florida governor was a true conservative, Huckabee said: “Jeb will have a lot of issues that he’ll make front and center. He was an excellent governor of Florida. He was a very conservative governor of Florida. We’ve served contemporaneously during the late ’90s and early part of 2000. So when people say, well, ‘Jeb Bush is not a conservative’, his whole record says that he was.”

So conservative in fact, that “ideologically, he’s probably more conservative than his brother” George W. Bush, Huckabee said. …

[Olog-hai]

Tell it to Terri Schiavo’s family, Mike.

[skeeter]

Who cares? They’re both occupying the same seat in the RINO clown car.

[RC one]

He lost me at Como Usted.

[pallis]

Like most of America, I don’t care about what the Huckster thinks. The only thing he can do is rob a few votes from a conservative, and help Jeb win.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

If someone held a gun to my head and told me to choose between Mike Huckabee and Jeb Bush as the nominee, I’d tell them to pull the trigger . . . . . . .

[TheThirdRuffian]

The fraud that is Huck speaks .

[TheThirdRuffian]

Yep

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Of course Jeb is better than George, but that’s not much of a endorsement. Common core kills him.

[txhurl]

So what’s Shucks’ strategy, for he and Jeb to orbit each other until one drops out? Wonder if he was asked to leave FNC?

[Darksheare]

If facing us so that Jeb is to our left... yes.
Matter of physical perspective.
Politically, Jeb is farther left.
By quite a bit.

[2ndDivisionVet]

It's like deja vu all over again.

[COBOL2Java]

So what’s Shucks’ strategy, for he and Jeb to orbit each other until one drops out?

The Shuckster's strategy is to try and convince enough low-information Republicans (the ones that don't pay attention, and just need a little encouragement to get to the polls to pull the lever for the "R") that Jeb is a conservative.

[hadaclueonce]

no Huck.

If you think the Huck is a good idea, we need to talk.

[hinckley buzzard]

Huckleberry has been getting good play from Hewitt and Medved under the pretense of interviewing him about his new book. He makes no bones about wanting to run for 2016. But frankly he sounds like a bad joke waiting to happen.

[SharpRightTurn]

“Mike Huckabee: Jeb Bush More to Right Than His Brother”

That’s not saying much. There’s a lot of field to cover to get from a G. W. Bush Big Government “compassionate” politician to a small government, constitutional conservative.

[ncalburt]

Huckster is getting paid to replay his McCain stalking horse to help Jeb and stop Cruz.
Adelson and the evil Chamber creatures are working with Rnc to make this happen.

Huckster needs to be harassed and outed in Iowa as the phony Born again con artist he always been.

[VerySadAmerican]

He’s running for veep.

[reasonisfaith]

And Huck is to the left of Romney.

[WayneS]

To the right of GWB does NOT equal conservative.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yeh, common core and amnesty. What could be more far right than that?