Posted on 06/11/2012 11:08:17 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush today said that both Ronald Reagan and his father, George H.W. Bush, would have a hard time getting nominated by the more conservative voters in today’s Republican Party.
“Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad, they would have a hard time if you define the Republican party, and I don’t, as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for disagreement, doesn’t allow for finding some common ground,” Bush said, according to Buzzfeed, which reported Bush’s giving the comments at the headquarters of Bloomberg LP in New York City.
Bush, a much-discussed contender to be Mitt Romney’s running mate, said he sees the ultra-conservative and partisan standards of today’s GOP as “disturbing,” but called “this dysfunction … temporary.”
“It’s just a different environment left and right,” Bush said.
During his “dad’s time and Ronald Reagan’s time,” Bush said, they “got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support,” according to the report, adding that Reagan “would be criticized for doing the things that he did.”
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“Jeb’s father rode Ronald Reagan’s coattails. Bush would never have been President if not for Ronald Reagan.”
Bush was Reagan’s greatest mistake. Reagan should have gone with his instinct and picked Laxalt for VP. Screw the Bushes and thier “kinder gentler” bull crap.
With all due respect, Jeb, you're comparing apples and oranges. Your dad, a good man, was a solid representative of the GOP establishment--and your dad's boss was the antithesis of that same GOP establishment.
Reagan worked with Democrats but he also pushed them to his side, and your dad worked with Democrats by going to THEIR side. Big difference.
Jeb, you know better, and you ought to be honest about the history.
Your dad was a one-termer because of compromise--he was skewered by the Democrats for compromising and he had abandoned his conservative reporters for the same act.
Agree 100%. Is Jeb aware that the 2012 GOP nominee for president is going to be Mitt Romney? When numbskulls such as Jeb say thing alike this, just once I would like a follow up question like that.
The people are just “correcting” that mistake through the Tea Party.
And they DID reject your dad because he was never a conservative to begin with.
Oh Jebbie?
Screw you Fat Boy, Ronald Reagan would not have let a third-rate probate judge in some backwater county in Florida cut his balls off and then proceed to murder by judicial fiat, the life of an innocent disabled woman, you know like Terri Schiavo?
GTFO you RINO turd, NO MORE BUSHES!
And the reason why I am totally and absolutely against ANY form of amnesty and any form of forgiveness for family members (where ever they were born) and those who abet illegals ever again.
Doing it 'for the children' as in the dream act, or even as a reward for military service, would only be scammed or used as a back door for an invasion even larger than the one that followed Reagan's essentially humanitarian experiment.
I have no problem with his father, but the Reagan part of this statement is just silly. Reagan was a conservative’s conservative.
As for seeking common ground, that has its place but why do these politicians have to whine like babies? Waa waa, if I’m not conservative enough they won’t vote for me, boo hoo.
Your Dad coined the phrase: “New World Order”.
GHWB was also stupid enough to have had racist-progressive RINO Colin Powell as his top General in Desert Storm and let Sadam’s army retreat back to Bagdad only to have to refight the same battles under GW’s tenure.
Don’t mention RINO GHWB and Reagan in the same breath.
Would never make love with any of those bushes. Will not hide in the bushes either. Staying out of the bushes and not going to bed with any of them. Otherwise I be, you be, and the country be scr____. Well that is the word am not wanting to spell.
“Reagan showed in his history that he learned from his mistakes.”
First of all, Reagan was up there in the top 2 or 3 greatest presidents IMHO.
But, Reagan did ban the open carry of loaded guns in California (due to the Black Panther’s carrying them at parades, on the courthouse steps, etc.)
And when he was out of office after being president, he had voiced his support for the Brady Bill.
I always wonder about the internet and Reagan’s election. If people had been able to bring up all the old votes, old comments, etc. that Reagan had made over the years - especially when he was a Democrat, would he have still been elected?
It seems that with all the information we have at our hands now-a-days it is too easy to find too many opposing views about them, making it REALLY hard to find someone that we think we can agree with 80% of the time (or whatever percent Reagan said).
LOL at Jeb, the guy’s just trying to stay relevant and influence the party platform and/or hoping for VP selection or an appointed position(not that that’s all bad). Jeb, good buddy, your old man is/wasn’t in Reagan’s category. Just like all the Bushes, he was a fence-sitting, elitist moderate more than willing to bend over for the commie left. So, Jeb, what you say doesn’t sell in this corner.
Norton, I agree with you concerning the dream act.
I will state that I don’t have a problem with a foreign national serving in our armed forces to obtain U. S. Citizenship in the long run.
We offer citizenship to foreign nationals for nothing at all. It would seem to me that the person who agrees to serve in our armed forces, would actually be going above and beyond the normal requirements.
I would also wager that having served in our armed forces, having seen what care we take to try to be even handed, that they might be moved to respect the United States even more.
I’m about as tough as they come when it comes to illegal immigration. I have not sorrow at all for people who spend decades here illegally, then claim special status because it would be too disruptive to oust them. TOUGH!
Ronnie, however, would win in a landslide.
I wish this schmuck would just go away. He is more annoying than Meagan McCain.
What a joker that Jeb is.
Reagan a $5 Trillion RomneyCare, loving RINO. I think not. LOL!
Time for Bush to get his head out of the Bushes.
I score Jeb with a 50% grade on this one. He was on Charley Rose offering up compromise with the Dems a couple days ago.
See...Didn’t GHWB call Reagan’s supply side economics,”Voodoo economics”? The disaster we’re in now is entirely the result of Keynesian policies!
Jeb, you can have your own opinion but you cannot have your own facts!
Only one group of people tried harder than democrats (liberal democrats) to keep the Reagan’s out of the White House - wait for it . . .
Republicans (RINO Republicans) led by the Bush cartel. Some things never change. And now Jebby wants a piece of the Reagan legacy.
Ok.
Hey, with McRomney at the top of the ticket, bitching and moaning about the Tea Party just might get him in.
He was a RINO! /sarc
He started the No Fault Divorce laws that swept the nation.
He signed into law the ability to get abortions based on the psychology of the mom.
That was just as Gov!
He would not win in hearts and minds here.
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