Posted on 06/15/2015 6:31:49 AM PDT by jimbo123
As part of announcing his 2016 presidential candidacy, Jeb Bush released a video entitled "Making a Difference." The video spotlights how Bush's work as governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007 affected four people: a low-income student, a low-skilled worker, a mother whose child is disabled and a woman who was the victim of domestic violence.
"My core beliefs start with the premise that the most vulnerable in our society should be in the front of the line, not the back," Bush says in the video. "The barriers right now on people rising up is the great challenge of our time."
The video is aimed particularly at women voters, underscoring the image Bush wants to project of himself as a deeply compassionate governor. "If you wonder what Jeb means when he talks about showing his heart, here you go." senior Bush aide David Kochel tweeted when the video was released Sunday.
But to a number of Republican strategists, some associated with other presidential campaigns and some not, the video shows a GOP politician ignoring the challenge of winning his own party's primaries before running a general election campaign. In addition, the video stresses Bush's goodness so heavily that the strategists wonder whether even a positive attribute, like compassion, can be overdone. And finally, the video raises the question of whether an appeal to women voters can be taken so far that it gives a campaign ad an almost feminized quality.
"This is a general election video consistent with their theory that you have to be willing to lose the primary in order to win the general," says one GOP strategist. "They seem to want to really test that premise."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Jebby, yet ANOTHER GOP-e/RINO “Soft-Handed” PU$$Y!
OMG!! Quick- someone Photoshop his face onto Jenner and put the caption “Call me Jebcita”
Oh, Great! Another ‘Compassionate Conservative’.
This is a cruel joke.
No mention of Terri Schiavo?
Does Terri Schiavo agree?
Another Bush tried compassionate conservatism ...and it did not work.
Oh, Great! Another ‘Compassionate Conservative’.
This is a cruel joke.
...
It’s a kinder, gentler cruel joke.
Of course not.
I am voting for the person who goes Big and Bold with LEADERSHIP that is not afraid to “speak truth to power.”
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Yeah, we were discussing the same thing the other day around the water cooler which is right next to the kitchen table.
These dooshes have nothing but contempt for us.
It’s time to show them.
El jebster continues using that “rising up” phrase. Sounds like the new media director Danny Diaz is giving him the hispanic dog whistle. Wonder how “rising up” is being translated on Univision et al.
Jeb Bush, him rise up now.
Erections have consequences.
It’a easy to be “compassionate” when you’re confiscating someone else’s money at gunpoint through “taxation” and handing it over to a favored group in order to get their vote.
The RNC wants you to vote for this loser so if he wins, they can give your country away.
Gee Whiz, Jebbie! It worked so well for Daddy, didn’t it? Women actually preferred the womanizing Clinton over your Papacita.
I think it would be better to have a jaw replacement and just start groping women and dropping trou.
So what else is he going to spotlight (unless he’s going for a halo effect), endless skeezy deals, six-dollar gas throughout his term, endless Middle Eastern wars?
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