Bush: Trump isn’t conservative enough to win GOP race

The HIll ^ | 08/19/2015 | Bradford Richardson

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump is not authentic enough a conservative to deserve the Republican nomination.

 

“Mr. Trump doesn’t have a conservative record,” Bush said at a town-hall meeting Wednesday in New Hampshire. “He was a Democrat longer than he was a Republican. He’s given more money to Democrats than he’s given to Republicans.”

 

“We’re a conservative party, aren’t we, the Republican Party?” Bush asked.

 

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He also slammed the billionaire businessman for his support of popular liberal positions in the past, such as a tax on assets and a single-payer healthcare system.

 

“Even on immigration, the language is pretty vitriolic, for sure, but hundreds of billions of dollars of cost to implement his plans is not a conservative plan,” Bush said, referring to Trump’s recently announced immigration plan, which initial estimates put at $166 billion.

 

Trump, meanwhile, was holding his own New Hampshire town hall at the same time, 20 miles down the road in Merrimack.

 

“Because Bush draws so poorly, I figured it would be a good time to draw a crowd,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal on Monday.

 

“Someone should tell Mr. Trump he will be trying to troll us from an entirely different county,” a Bush spokesman retorted.

 

Trump leads New Hampshire’s GOP presidential race with 18 percent support, according to a Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll, with Bush in second place with 13 percent.

 

While Bush was quick to bash Trump, he did offer praise to another GOP primary rival, Carly Fiorina.

 

“We have some really good men and women – well, one woman, who is much more talented than the other team’s woman,” Bush said, commending Fiorina at the expense of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

 

Fiorina is drawing 9 percent support in New Hampshire, good for fifth place in the Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll. 

[TADSLOS]

Class Clown.

[The Good Doctor]

$166 billion to get rid of illegals and stop importing new ones? I’m in.

[Zathras]

From the gang who went Postal on Conservatives he now claims to be conservative.

[SmokingJoe]

Bush: Trump isn’t conservative enough to win GOP race

Neither are you Master Jeb.

[Red Steel]

LoL Yeb!

[AmericanCheeseFood]

Well now Jeb, are you going to run as a Democrat then?

[waterhill]

Tell the frond to get caught up in a ducks leg and fly away to like way south of here.

[Darren McCarty]

I agree with Jeb. Trump isn’t conservative enough. Neither is Jeb.

[SoFloFreeper]

[EagleUSA]

More Bush hypocrisy? Compassionate conservatism = Mo-Mexicans??? Common Core is good???

Who is not conservative???

[dowcaet]

Jeb is toast. All the big money people will be lining up behind Rubio very soon.

[CASchack]

....as Bush speaks to a group of 150, Trump packed in 2500+.

[HarleyLady27]

Jebby is so desperate he just can’t contain himself....

I swear, looking at him and listening to him, there is something wrong with him...is he ok in the head????

[ballearthout]

Jeb is troubled because he thought he could buy the GOPe nomination and Donald Trump came along and said, “Your money’s no good here.”

[funfan]

So has Yeb even said why he is running for President? At least Trump said he is running to to make America great again. I have not heard why Yeb is running.

[maggief]

“Even on immigration, the language is pretty vitriolic, for sure, but hundreds of billions of dollars of cost to implement his plans is not a conservative plan,” Bush said, referring to Trump’s recently announced immigration plan, which initial estimates put at $166 billion. ++++++++++++++ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3326776/posts?page=5 Donald Trump’s immigration tab: $166 billion Politico.com ^ | 19 August 2015 | Seung Min Kim So with help from experts at groups spanning the political spectrum — the National Immigration Forum, the Center for American Progress, the Migration Policy Institute, the Cato Institute and the American Action Forum — POLITICO rang up the cost of key provisions in Trump’s immigration proposal. Here’s how it breaks down.

[catnipman]

“Bush: Trump isn’t conservative enough to win GOP race”

I badly needed a belly laugh today. Thanks, Jeb!

[maggief]

“Even on immigration, the language is pretty vitriolic, for sure, but hundreds of billions of dollars of cost to implement his plans is not a conservative plan,; Bush said, referring to Trump’s recently announced immigration plan, which initial estimates put at $166 billion.

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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3326776/posts?page=5

Donald Trump’s immigration tab: $166 billion
Politico.com ^ | 19 August 2015 | Seung Min Kim

So with help from experts at groups spanning the political spectrum — the National Immigration Forum, the Center for American Progress, the Migration Policy Institute, the Cato Institute and the American Action Forum — POLITICO rang up the cost of key provisions in Trump’s immigration proposal. Here’s how it breaks down.

[hal ogen]

...and this is from a RINO-supreme one-worlder. Laughs...lots of laughs. This guy is pathetic and a “Fredo”-type weakling.

[exit82]

Go away Jebra!

Another Bush is not going to be elected.