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. 

[stillfree?]

Bush and Clinton are done.

[GeronL]

?? Jeb was running as a moderate....

Crazy

[Fiji Hill]

“Mr. Trump doesn’t have a conservative record,” Bush said at a town-hall meeting Wednesday in New Hampshire.

Jeb Bush, of course, is conservative--severely conservative.

[Yogafist]

Where do these guys get their advisers? Why to they keep trying to scare us by saying Trump isn’t conservative enough. We have 5 years of sending supposedly conservative Republicans to Washington, who mostly turned out to be Rinos, more interested in showing they can “govern” by passing Democrat legislation than honoring their campaign promises. I don’t think Trump is our best candidate, but listening to a rino tell me he isn’t conservative enough is kind of insulting.

[exit82]

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

That you even have to ask, shows your ignorance, Jebra.

[tennmountainman]

Funny.

[TruthWillWin]

Kettle calling the pot black!

[hawkaw]

Wow ... there is a pot and a kettle joke somewhere after reading that headline. As much as I am still not a political fan of Trump, Mr. Bush has done nothing to impress conservatives.

[MaxMax]

Everybody should be aware that in the beginning Jeb and Hillary were the primary
choices for both parties, and either would fulfill their needs if elected. They both
were handpicked by the elites so that no matter who won, they would win.

I'm certain they're scrambling like rats trying to nail down another lackey
while Trump and others are making Bush out to be loony with his personal attacks
and lack of any integrity for our nations sovereignty.

The scare is two fold. One, whomever wins the GOP primary and goes on to
win the WH will become the designated leader of the GOP. It's traditional.
If this happens and a conservative enough candidate wins there'll be a cleansing
and all those Democrats in the GOP will be ousted on their ass. Infestation.

Second, the Congress will be up shit creek because nothing they do
for the PC Socialists will pass into law. Their payoffs will wither.

My cup is half full.

[LucyT]

Ping

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

! Article and # 38.

Thanks, Maggie.

[TigersEye]

RINO, please!

[lewislynn]

If this happens and a conservative enough candidate wins there'll be a cleansing and all those Democrats in the GOP will be ousted on their ass. Infestation.

Don't kid yourself. Even Reagan was forced by the party to take Bush as VP.

OTHER THAN TRUMP, It doesn't matter which candidate wins, including Saint Cruz, will be (actually already is) influenced by party AND money.

[Yogafist]

I wish we had a like button. That’s a good one.

[Vendome]

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

“Oxy-Moron”

[MrEdd]

This is a case of the pot calling the sugar bowl black...

Neither is conservative.

Jeb is a dedicated globalist. Trump is a bombastic populist.

Jeb dropping out would be an act of love.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

You are right, Jethro, we are a SEVERELY conservative party.

[TigersEye]

:)

[OftheOhio]

I congratulated Hilary on achieving ass clown status last month, lol. FUJB, you’re standing tall alongside her now.

[stilloftyhenight]

And I pray that he gets it. We need serious numbers just to counter voter fraud.

[mdmathis6]

Jeb doesn’t understand the meaning or the word “Irony”!

Jeb you aren’t conservative enough to win either!