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Bush: Trump isn’t conservative enough to win GOP race
The HIll ^
| 08/19/2015
| Bradford Richardson
Posted on 08/19/2015 4:56:09 PM PDT by 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 doesnt 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. Hes given more money to Democrats than hes given to Republicans.
Were a conservative party, arent we, the Republican Party? Bush asked.
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 Trumps 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 Hampshires 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 teams 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.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; newhampshire; townhall; trump
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To: hoosiermama; Brown Deer; Jane Long; RoosterRedux; Hostage; Guenevere; Black Agnes; ...
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.
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posted on
08/19/2015 8:30:58 PM PDT
by
onyx
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To: LucyT
That put a big smile on my face!!
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posted on
08/19/2015 8:33:13 PM PDT
by
azishot
(Drive hammered. Get nailed.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Pretty sure this is the definition of irony
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posted on
08/19/2015 8:35:23 PM PDT
by
Reaper19
To: LucyT; onyx; hoosiermama
Woo hoo!
Love that chart. Thanks much, LucyT for posting :D
(Saving!)
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posted on
08/19/2015 8:44:03 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Maybe we should ask George Will is Trump is conservative enough.
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posted on
08/19/2015 9:07:08 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
( Megyn made the debate about her petty gripe. She failed miserably. She choked, choked like a dog!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I will never vote for another Bush.
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posted on
08/19/2015 9:56:37 PM PDT
by
ColdSteelTalon
(Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
To: MaxMax
“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.
To: vette6387
ROTFLOL .. and Bush thinks he’s the one who can decide who is conservative and who’s not ..?? ROTFLOL
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posted on
08/19/2015 10:05:26 PM PDT
by
CyberAnt
("The fields are white unto Harvest")
To: TigersEye
Stolen. But please propagate this, it’s a keeper.
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posted on
08/19/2015 10:31:09 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: grey_whiskers
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posted on
08/19/2015 10:37:55 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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!
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posted on
08/19/2015 10:40:30 PM PDT
by
DouglasKC
(I'm pro-choice when it comes to lion killing....)
To: TADSLOS
ClAss Clown
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Jeb’s brother wasn’t a real conservative but he was way to the Right of Jeb...
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posted on
08/20/2015 3:09:53 AM PDT
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
To: maggief; E. Pluribus Unum; hoosiermama; Liz; LucyT; onyx
Jeb....the joke that wrote itself : )
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posted on
08/20/2015 8:29:18 AM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: stephenjohnbanker; maggief; E. Pluribus Unum; hoosiermama; Liz; LucyT
Jeb....the joke that wrote itself : )
YES....LOL.
To all those who thought GWB was dumb, ... lol ... meet baby bro, John Ellis.
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posted on
08/20/2015 9:14:30 AM PDT
by
onyx
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To: The Final Harvest
“Bush thinks hes the one who can decide who is conservative and whos 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.
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