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Jeb Bush a Reaganite? Oh, Yes He Is
Newsmax ^ | 2/19/15 | ChristopherRuddy

Posted on 02/19/2015 12:29:54 PM PST by Nachum

I am quite baffled that some folks think Jeb Bush is an establishment candidate and not a true conservative.

Granted, the former Florida governor's support for the Common Core educational initiative and immigration reform might give that impression.

But the truth is, Jeb Bush governed Florida as a strong conservative, and he has long identified, even before becoming governor, with the pro-growth, conservative ideas championed by the likes of Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp.

In my mind, the 2016 election will not be about ideology, it will be about finding solutions to America's problems.

Jeb is a solutions guy who always defaults to pro-growth, pro-liberty and pro-free enterprise ideas that, in my book, are the best cure for the ills we face.

A long-time member of the Heritage Foundation's Board of Trustees, Jeb in April 2013 wrote the cover story for Newsmax magazine entitled "We Can Be Great Again," offering his six-point plan for fixing America.

In Newsmax, Gov. Bush argued that America's entitlement system risks collapse unless there is a course correction in U.S. public policy.

Bush's six-point plan would restore growth to the economy, and includes a key plank calling for more legal immigration – I underscore the word legal. Bush strongly opposes illegal immigration.

Nor is Bush for "open borders," as some of his critics have claimed. I have little doubt that, in short order, a President Jeb Bush would make the Mexican border air-tight secure.

In his six-point plan he also called for a far simpler tax code that is less likely to hold back investment and employment, improvements in education, energy independence, and a reduction of regulations that stifle economic growth.

The conservative movement has to be "a movement of growth and opportunity," he wrote. "The core message of the conservative movement, and the Republican

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: actoflove; bush; gopestablishment; jeb; jebbush; reaganite; rino
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Christopher Ruddy, who just donated a million dollars to Hillary Clinton wrote this...
1 posted on 02/19/2015 12:29:54 PM PST by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Maybe they meant Reagan Juniorite.


2 posted on 02/19/2015 12:31:20 PM PST by GreenAccord (Bacon Akbar)
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To: Nachum

Yada yada yada. Blah blah blah.


3 posted on 02/19/2015 12:31:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If obama speaks and there is no one there to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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To: Nachum

UltraRINO Jeb Bush would fund and feed jihadis,
would open the borders to jihadis,
but the useless RINO STARVED to DEATH Terry Schiavo.


4 posted on 02/19/2015 12:31:36 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Nachum
Granted, the former Florida governor's support for the Common Core educational initiative and immigration reform might give that impression.

Seriously?

5 posted on 02/19/2015 12:31:38 PM PST by Kenny (,)
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To: Nachum

“Gosh, Us Democrats would sure be ascared if you ran Jeb agin’ us! “

“You can do ANYTHING jes’ don’ run ol’ Jeb Bush”


6 posted on 02/19/2015 12:32:29 PM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016 (for 16 years of conservative bliss))
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To: Nachum

Chris Ruddy GUZZLING da Kool Aide..!

Dead to me, now..


7 posted on 02/19/2015 12:32:50 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Nachum

Riiiight.

A strong conservative. Which is why there’s increasing talk of a Hillary/Jeb unity ticket in ‘16


8 posted on 02/19/2015 12:33:13 PM PST by Elpasser
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To: Nachum

FUJB!! Communist Core pushing amnesty pimp!!


9 posted on 02/19/2015 12:33:25 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Nachum

“NewsMax” Has been SWIVED-UP for quite a while now.


10 posted on 02/19/2015 12:34:07 PM PST by US Navy Vet (Go Packers! Go Rockies! Go Boston Bruins! See, I'm "Diverse"!)
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To: Nachum

Didn’t know Reagan had a “voodoo economics” wing of Reaganites.


11 posted on 02/19/2015 12:34:34 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I am quite baffled that some folks think Jeb Bush is an establishment candidate and not a true conservative.

then you're either an idiot or a liar.

12 posted on 02/19/2015 12:34:55 PM PST by uncitizen (They demand we judge them by the color of their skin)
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Christopher Ruddy, who just donated a million dollars to Hillary Clinton...

What!?

13 posted on 02/19/2015 12:35:08 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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To: Nachum

Did someone photograph Chris Ruddy with Virginia Roberts?

That’s really the only thing that can explain a mystery like this...


14 posted on 02/19/2015 12:35:14 PM PST by Regulator (The Mystery Being, Why Has Ruddy Gone Mad?)
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To: Nachum

If Jeb were a “solutions guy,” he wouldn’t support Common Core and amnesty.


15 posted on 02/19/2015 12:35:45 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: Nachum

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me, you can’t get fooled again.


16 posted on 02/19/2015 12:36:27 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: Nachum

The author is a moron, or hopes to rise to that level some day


17 posted on 02/19/2015 12:36:39 PM PST by GeronL
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Jeb Bush’s constituency is the US Chamber of Commerce.

That’s it.

I am perfectly content that every one of them vote for him, perhaps as many as a hundred votes. Nobody else should vote for him, however, since he does not represent them.


18 posted on 02/19/2015 12:36:57 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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Are you serious? Ruddy, along with Evans-Pritchard was a mainstay in exposing the criminality behind Clinton’s Whitewater scandals. Has he flipped?


19 posted on 02/19/2015 12:37:02 PM PST by sparklite2
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who just donated a million dollars to Hillary!

This is all about Ted Cruz... "don't Run Jeb, Please don't! We'ze a-scared!", ie please DO run Jeb, because we really don't want to have to run against the likes of a real conservative in the Reagan mold.

20 posted on 02/19/2015 12:37:39 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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