Opinion: The far right fears Jeb Bush’s success

Market Watch ^ | February 23, 2015 | Paul Brandus, White House bureau chief, West Wing Reports

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One of the more memorable moments during the last presidential campaign was a GOP debate in August, 2011. Fox’s Bret Baier asked the eight candidates if they would agree to $1 in new taxes for every $10 in spending cuts. Not one person raised his (or her) hand. Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Richard Nixon—all tax hikers at one point or another during their presidencies—would have raised their hands, and might have been booed off stage. That’s how much the Republican party has changed.

Which brings us to Jeb Bush. During his eight years as governor of Florida (1999-2007), “King Jeb,” as some opponents dubbed him, cut taxes big time—$19 billion in all—and this in a state that had no income tax to begin with. But Bush, like his father, isn’t opposed to bringing in new revenue if the times call for it.

“If you could bring to me a majority of people to say that we’re going to have $10 in spending cuts for $1 of revenue enhancement — put me in, coach,” he said while testifying to a Congressional committee in 2012. Which explains why he’s never signed the no-tax pledge that has been shoved down the throats of most other Republicans by Grover Norquist, the never-elected-to-anything anti-tax bully. Sign my pledge, Norquist threatens quivering Republicans—or we’ll campaign against you. The only major candidates with the cojones to reject this extortion have been Bush and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

“I ran for office three times. The pledge was presented to me three times. I never signed [it]. I cut taxes every year I was governor,” Bush said. “I don’t believe you outsource your principles and convictions to people.”(continued)

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I don't know what the 'far right' is other than conservatives/libertarians/populists that liberals fear will take their votes.

I identify myself as a mainstream American and I fear Jeb Bush's success, because it success for Jeb Bush and not success for America, for our Constitution, for Liberty or for much of anything else. If Jeb is elected, my screwing continues that I've had under Dubya, Clinton and H.W.

We need a change in direction, as restoration of America. I don't see where Jeb Bush fits into the restoration.