In other news, Christopher Ruddy, the founder of Newsmax.com, which I used to read before I realized they just took AP articles and reworded them to sound conservative, is personal friends with the Clintons? Fock you, Chris!
Posted on 02/19/2015 12:29:54 PM PST by Nachum
I am quite baffled that some folks think Jeb Bush is an establishment candidate and not a true conservative.
Granted, the former Florida governor's support for the Common Core educational initiative and immigration reform might give that impression.
But the truth is, Jeb Bush governed Florida as a strong conservative, and he has long identified, even before becoming governor, with the pro-growth, conservative ideas championed by the likes of Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp.
In my mind, the 2016 election will not be about ideology, it will be about finding solutions to America's problems.
Jeb is a solutions guy who always defaults to pro-growth, pro-liberty and pro-free enterprise ideas that, in my book, are the best cure for the ills we face.
A long-time member of the Heritage Foundation's Board of Trustees, Jeb in April 2013 wrote the cover story for Newsmax magazine entitled "We Can Be Great Again," offering his six-point plan for fixing America.
In Newsmax, Gov. Bush argued that America's entitlement system risks collapse unless there is a course correction in U.S. public policy.
Bush's six-point plan would restore growth to the economy, and includes a key plank calling for more legal immigration – I underscore the word legal. Bush strongly opposes illegal immigration.
Nor is Bush for "open borders," as some of his critics have claimed. I have little doubt that, in short order, a President Jeb Bush would make the Mexican border air-tight secure.
In his six-point plan he also called for a far simpler tax code that is less likely to hold back investment and employment, improvements in education, energy independence, and a reduction of regulations that stifle economic growth.
The conservative movement has to be "a movement of growth and opportunity," he wrote. "The core message of the conservative movement, and the Republican
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But Bush's problem with the right is that he goes out of his way to antagonize conservatives on things like immigration. There are a lot of libertarians without borders out there who champion "pro-growth, pro-liberty and pro-free enterprise ideas" who one wouldn't consider to be conservative because they don't have enough respect for the nation-state and cultural traditions. When it comes to immigration, Jeb might feel at home with them.
I was going to call you on that, but it turns out it's actually true. What's going on?
Good point. Democrats will go any length to keep political power. We’ve all been flabbergasted at the lack of fight from the GOP in Washington. Maybe, as some here have suspected, we have closeted Democrats in our ranks in elected office. Not as farfetched an idea as I once thought.
The entire Bush family hated Reagan and still do.
No more Clintons, OR BUSHES... PERIOD!!!
What a joke.
He can shove Jeb up his backside and his brother and father if they will fit!!!
I wish I had never heard of any of them, liberal, one world, crap!!!
The liberal Booshies have done enough damage to the US. Stay out da MF’ing Booshies.
Ruddy telling us to support Jebba the Hut is like the Imperial Japanese right before Pearl Harbor telling the U.S. to forget about those other planes on the drawing board, concentrate on building just the Brewster Buffalo.
We have too many solutions now. Our candidate should stand for not solving problems.
In other news, Christopher Ruddy, the founder of Newsmax.com, which I used to read before I realized they just took AP articles and reworded them to sound conservative, is personal friends with the Clintons? Fock you, Chris!
That whore!
I’ve never watched an episode of Star Trek, but I assume that the Russian guy would say “inwention,” not “inwnetion” (just as Count von Count on Sesame Street says “sewen,” not “sewne”).
Bingo on the FU!
That’s better. : )
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