Posted on 12/26/2014 7:20:12 AM PST by SleeperCatcher
Some conservative political analysts have opined that former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush announced recently that he was further exploring his options to run for the GOP presidential nomination as a means of pre-empting all other potential GOP candidates. Many of the same analysts say there was an additional, not-so-subtle message, and it was aimed primarily at conservatives: Dont bother running; the monied GOP interests (i.e. the donor class) have spoken and Jeb Bush is who they want.
Over the Christmas holidays I have had a number of people ask my opinion about Bush, and what I have told them, essentially, is this: Jeb Bush, like all the Bushes, is an inherently decent man. He has been a governor of a mostly red (but sometimes purple) state. He shares lineage with a storied political family. But if the goal is to restore some semblance of constitutional government to our republic, Jeb Bush is the wrong candidate, for he like his father and brother before him is no conservative.
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I agree that there are Libertarian goals that need to be left to the individual states, rather than making federal laws out of them.
I didn't say it Mitch did.
“I didn’t say it Mitch did.”
You never wanted to call BS on Mitch?
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