"The Republican establishment had better get it into its head that many moderate and conservative voters aren't going to see some clown like Jeb Bush as any better than Hillary Clinton.
You can't get us to fear Hillary Clinton in the White House if you offer us someone even worse."
and,
"Bush's record is precisely why conservatives don't support him,"
and then,
"So, now Jeb is giving us in the middle more reasons not to vote for him."
(Washington Post) - As Jeb Bush tells it, he governed this state as “a practicing reform-minded conservative.” He cut taxes here by $19 billion. He slashed the state government payroll. He battled teachers unions to overhaul education. He ended affirmative action. And he vetoed so many spending bills that he earned the nickname “Veto Corleone.”
“I got to be governor of this state — this purple state, this wacky, wonderful state — for eight years. I ran as a conservative, I said what I was going to do, and I had a chance to do it. And trust me, I did,” Bush crowed to fiscally conservative members of the Club for Growth gathered here last week.
Bush is making his two terms as governor the core argument of his push to try to persuade conservatives that he’s one of them.
But Bush is embarking on his likely campaign for president in an environment very different from the one he governed between 1999 and 2007. Back then, being conservative on most things was enough. Today, purity is in, and many conservatives require their leaders — whether in Congress or on the campaign trail — to be in lock step on everything.
That presents a particular problem for Bush, who is out of synch on two issues that have emerged as litmus tests: immigration and the Common Core education standards. Another challenge is that he’s a Bush. Some activists on the right still harbor bad feelings about his father and brother, both of whom were elected president after running as true conservatives but disappointed the base once they won. Read more.
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