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. 

[onyx]

Thanks Lucy. This graphic should go at beginning of each Trump thread and the disrutord. might be referred to it.

YES!
I have it now.
Thanks so much, again, Brown Deer!! & LucyT!!

Donald Trump is a Hard-Core Conservative.

[azishot]

That put a big smile on my face!!

[Reaper19]

Pretty sure this is the definition of irony

[Jane Long]

Woo hoo!

Love that chart. Thanks much, LucyT for posting :D

(Saving!)

[The_Media_never_lie]

Maybe we should ask George Will is Trump is conservative enough.

[ColdSteelTalon]

I will never vote for another Bush.

[vette6387]

“He cannot fire them, but I would love to be a fly on the wall.”

Yeah, but he could make it very uncomfortable for them if they elected to stay. If he is elected, there's going to be a BIG come to Jesus meeting in the GOP. The conservatives need to start acting like it and boot out the RINOs and Democrat Lite Members from the “leadership.” I don't think that either Boner or Scrotum Neck have the “fortitude” to buck Trump, if they do, he will chew them up and spit them out. The other thing that needs to happen is that all the OF’s need to give up their seats. There's no place in the new world for Hatch, Cochran, and any of the other septuagenarians who are there only to consume oxygen and go to the bathroom.

[CyberAnt]

ROTFLOL .. and Bush thinks he’s the one who can decide who is conservative and who’s not ..?? ROTFLOL

[grey_whiskers]

Stolen. But please propagate this, it’s a keeper.

[TigersEye]

Thank you! I guess I will.

[DouglasKC]

oooh ha ha ha hee hee ho ho...Jeb....ha ha ha...Bush...hee heee...saying...ooohh...ha ha ha...Trump is ...oh hahah ha..not conservative...ho ha ha ho...enough...! I’m dying here!

[fieldmarshaldj]

ClAss Clown

[trebb]

Jeb’s brother wasn’t a real conservative but he was way to the Right of Jeb...

[stephenjohnbanker]

Jeb....the joke that wrote itself : )

[onyx]

Jeb....the joke that wrote itself : )

YES....LOL.

To all those who thought GWB was dumb, ... lol ... meet baby bro, John Ellis.

[vette6387]

“Bush thinks he’s the one who can decide who is conservative and who’s not ..??”

Yeah, and just look at his “town hall meeting” in NH. It looked like a wake! The next “debate” is going to be a doozy, because Trump now knows that he’s in a free fire zone. And as the single digit candidates start falling by the wayside, it’s going to look increasingly true that Boosh isn’t going to get the nomination. It will look like what Obola did to Hitlary in 2008.