[cotton1706]

That's exactly what Jeb Bush is: a progressive republican!

[GeronL]

bump

[SMARTY]

Jeb isn’t fooling anyone.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Good descripion...............also a traitor to the USA, but who’s counting.

[WayneS]

...used strong words to describe the politics of the former Republican Florida governor.

...labeling Jeb Bush a “big government progressive.”

Whoa! Does he kiss his mother with that mouth?

[Baynative]

Allen West for SPEAKER of the HOUSE!

[VanDeKoik]

I thought he called him a ****sucker.

But this works just as well.

Cruz/West 2016!

[stephenjohnbanker]

I can’t figure Jeb out. He would get decimated worse than George McGovern. I really think he is just out there boosting Amnesty.

[PGR88]

“When you look at by the time we get to 2016, we’re going to have a country with $20 trillion in debt; we’re going to have a massive, bureaucratic, administrative, regulatory state, and the last thing we need to see is a big government, progressive Republican running against a bigger government progressive socialist Democrat.”

BOOM! Nailed it.

[livius]

Jeb Bush was a very competent Florida governor, and, in different times, might even have made a good president. But he, like his brother and father, is too weak in dealing with the left and is constantly “reaching across the aisle.” He doesn’t necessarily agree with them, but he’s so courteous and worried about hurting their feelings that he’s useless.

Incidentally, the person who killed his bill to protect Terri Schiavo was another Republican, Jim King, a radical good ol’ boy RINO who was speaker of the Florida State House at that time. But Bush has forgiven, and doesn’t even oppose RINOs (which he is not, just a weak conservative).

[duffee]

“big government progressive.”

That accurately describes jeb and the rinos that are upset by him being called that. It also accurately describes democrats.

[TruthWillWin]

Allen West is right, the established GOP be damned.

[onyx]

B T T T ! ! ! ©

[Jane Long]

Appearing on FOX News with Sean Hannity, West, referring to Bush running against Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton, said that match is the last thing the country needs, labeling Jeb Bush a “big government progressive.”

“When you look at by the time we get to 2016, we’re going to have a country with $20 trillion in debt; we’re going to have a massive, bureaucratic, administrative, regulatory state, and the last thing we need to see is a big government, progressive Republican running against a bigger government progressive socialist Democrat.”

Col West speaks FReeper, fluently!! Love Col West!!

[TYVets]

Who do I have confidence in?

Jeb Bush?

The GOPe?

Allen West?

Only Allen West

[montag813]

It will sit just fine with them, because they completely ignore Allen West

[Lionheartusa1]

So what’s the news here ? The Leftwing of the gop is the problem . The voters rejected those establishment folks in the past two prez elections and now want to make it 3 in a row . I’m going with my gut ,,,,, Teddy boy is the RIGHT man for the job along with even more (R’s ) winning in local elections in 2016 ,,, the last chance to revive the R party before the just merge with the Donkey party and the TEA PARTY begins .

[lonevoice]

Gosh, I love Allen West. I wish he'd find his way back to Congress, but he's never shown any interest in returning to the political scene.

[mulligan]

Truth always hurts corrupt and un-American politicians. And that describes most of today’s politicians.

[Servant of the Cross]

Good to hear that Fox and Hannity are giving Lt. Colonel Allen West the prime time exposure to speak the truth.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

LTC West, if he isn’t in the race for POTUS or VP, should definitely rate as one of the top cabinet officers. But which one?

Foggy Bottom (State Department) is just an empty pit where careers are sent to die.

DoD needs to be cleaned up, but there are good candidates for SecDef, and truthfully, it would waste West’s time. Donald Rumsfeld did much, but had a brutal fight on his hands.

So I think his best role would be as an “enhanced” National Security Advisor, but tasked with the role as well of reforming, streamlining, and bringing back to constitutional order the 17 agencies in the Intelligence Community.

It would be a Herculean task, and he would need solid presidential and congressional backing to do it. Plus he would likely need to create a military style staff of other former officers who know how to get things done.

Likely whoever was the VP would be in overall charge of doing the same in the rest of the bureaucracy, so LTC West would just be one of the “hatchet men”, but a particularly important one.

West would also have to work closely with whoever was Secretary of Homeland Security, the two of them closing America’s borders to illegal traffic.