Posted on 03/19/2015 9:50:41 AM PDT by PROCON
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (March 19, 2015) — Jeb Bush is betting his political future these days on the hope that pragmatism will trump conservative hostility in 2016.
Fresh off his first public tours of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, the Republican White House prospect has settled on an early approach for dealing with skeptics on the right, casting himself as a practical but "principled conservative," particularly when explaining his immigration and education positions that put him at odds with the GOP's most conservative factions.
Bush often wraps his philosophy in scathing criticism of President Barack Obama. But the former Florida governor's theme is clear: He wants to be the grown-up who ends the Washington "food fight" and governs to "fix things for everybody, not to win a political argument."
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I don’t plan on staying home on Election day 2016. If Jeb Bush is the Republican nominee, I’ll be writing in the name Ted Cruz on my ballot.
Never happen.
Never. Not one inch.
There’s a significantly greater that zero probability that Hillary will achieve the THIRD Clintonian plurality win for POTUS.
And so the Conservatives he expect to vote for him are "children."
Patronizing loser.
Sorry Jeb. You are no conservative. You do not get my vote for anything.
I hope that Guess again MF! was directed at Jeb. Because I definitely DON’T think that Jeb’s disagreements with conservatives can be overcome.
I can’t top all the great posts already in this thread, so I’ll just point to my tagline.
Jeb is delusional. No Bush will be elected president for the next 30 years. His son may have a chance.
Most will. Even Mark Levin will tell you to vote for Jeb in the general. Many registered Republicans and conservatives will withhold their vote. In 5 years, when Elizabeth Warren gets reelected there will be bitter fulmination here on FR against the millions of us “who stayed home because their guy didn’t get the nomination.” Well, there will be if FR doesn’t get banned, which it probably will.
The time to start a third party was when they pushed Dole on us, or when McCain said we had nothing to fear from Obama’s presidency. But we kept holding our noses while the GOP rubbed our noses in the pile of crap they made.
You see what they’re doing? We say, “No more moderates.” They could have said, “Okay, well, we want to win so, who do you want?” But no. They push their moderate anyway and guilt us into voting for him. The government grows, our liberty shrinks.
I think titanic political changes are ahead.
I predicted two years ago, and I’m sticking with it, that Hillary and Jeb will run together on some kind of unity ticket of national salvation.
Then he believes wrongly.
His blindness to the fact that he is nowhere near a Conservative, is betrayed by this belief.
The man is a clueless wonder when it comes to my beliefs, and the beliefs of other Conservatives.
That being said, there’s no common ground between us. NONE!
Some of us don’t’ get to write in a candidate.
If it’s a Dem vs Jeb, I predict there will be a 3rd party candidate on most state ballots.
Nice. He’s a principled conservative. Not like us regular “unprincipled” conservatives.
This is why Elizabeth Warren will be the next president. It won’t be our fault. We’ve already told them what will happen if they go through with their plan.
Jeb Bush can save his political future by endorsing Ted Cruz for POTUS.
There is no other way that he gains my respect.
Translation -
....”I’ve got enough millions and millions to change minds and overwhelm by the time I hit South Carolina, just like Romney did.”.... “So, watch me.”
JBush is going to be a politician who has to have literally paid volunteers or his offices will be unstaffed.
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