Posted on 05/06/2015 11:46:00 AM PDT by jimbo123
Former Florida governor fails to identify any ‘genuine’ conservatives on campaign team.
Jeb Bush’s latest effort to court evangelical voters boomeranged when a Christian radio network boss challenged him for hiring two political aides who support same-sex marriage, and the former Florida governor conceded that he couldn’t identify any “genuine” conservatives in his inner circle.
The details of Mr. Bush’s private phone call in mid-April with Rich Bott, whose religious radio network of 100 stations stretches from California to Tennessee within potential reach of 51 million listeners, were confirmed to The Washington Times by Mr. Bott and top aides to Mr. Bush.
It is the latest bellwether of the former Florida governor’s struggles with certain constituencies inside the Republican Party’s conservative base who are wary of his potential positioning on marriage, education, immigration and spending heading into his bid for the White House.
“Who can you name in your campaign or administration that is a genuine movement conservative?” Mr. Bott asked during the call.
“You know, I don’t know who is a movement conservative these days because it’s all so mainstream,” Mr. Bush replied, according to Mr. Bott.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
If everything remains on the up and up on the Republican side Bush will be rejected as the party’s nominee.
This is surprising? Jeb reminds me of the perpetually drunk trust fund fraternity boy.
“misfires with Evangelicals”
Just wait till he calls us “agents of intolerance” like McCain did. Gotta love the GOPe.
Jeb is going for the gay and illegal votes.
Why is this man even in the news?
Did I miss something?
There is no possible way this man could ever become president, barring massive voter fraud.
He is simply not relevant.
Makes me wonder why the leftist MSM has such a tumescent woody for him.
Yup. Bout now, he's PO'd pretty much the entire Base.
If money could vote, he might win.
But it's citizens that vote...and he's on the wrong side of pretty much everything that our side believes in.
All hail the Dauphin! Jeb the Inevitable!
Don't count your chickens before they hatch, strangers things have happened.
It does seem that every time thee is a poll(assuming the polls are valid)he is rejected by those polled.
Maybe Jeb can ask Terri Schiavo to intercede for him. /s
Just tell Mamma you really don’t want to be president, Jebster. Save those big bucks donors a little green and the rest of us the pain of having to listen to you drone on about dreamers for the next 6, 9 or18 months.
He should be running as a democrat.
Sad but true.
"Bush" = Democrat Appeasement, and we don't need any more of that at all.
Secondly, Jeb Bush, has deliberately positioned himself at odds with very fundamental positions with his base, and he has done so prior to the Primaries. This is horribly bad judgement, and indicates he is clueless about how this "Politics" stuff works.
They constantly said George HW Bush was "Out of touch" (he was.) and this is just another big whiff of that horrible stench from his administration.
Jeb Bush needs to STFU and go away. I would rather see the country ran by another Nut-job Democrat than put up with another Rino Milquetoast pansy who won't actually fix anything.
Go away Jeb. You will never be President.
Soros. He won in 2008...
From their perspective, he's the least bad Republican. Milquetoast, compromising, insincere, and from the correct "Blueblood" pedigree of the Limousine liberal country club elite.
Besides, any support or money he gets will be detracted from their actual enemies. He will also serve to damage our candidates that have an actual shot at winning.
When will these idiots finally learn?
Look, I know that in some misguided form, a lot of people are using their Christian compassion to ‘bend’ on the issue of gays shacking up and calling themselves married.
While there are probably more than a few around here who would get physically ill at the very idea, the vast majority honestly couldn’t care less what two adults decide to do in their bedroom.
That isn’t the issue; the issue is and continues to be the forced and compelled recognition of some fantasy warping of long held beliefs. It isn’t shut up and stop looking in our bedroom if it offends you, it is you must recognize our relationship as being the same as yours, you must cater to our whims, and should you raise your voice in dissent, we shall use the power of the government to strip you of even more rights.
Gays calling themselves married has nothing to do with equality and everything to do with using the club of government oppression to legitimize their political viewpoints. And while most marriages would traditionally include God’s blessings of children, these abominations intend on using these relationships to force even more propaganda in the schools to convert more to their deviant lifestyle.
For homosexuality to thrive, it requires fresh blood, and so long as schools are compelled to constantly feed the propaganda that this is perfectly healthy and natural lifestyle (neither of which is physically true), their opportunities to corrupt more into their lifestyle shall continue.
I have nothing against any homosexual. They are free to do whatever they please. I do not use the club of government to suppress their rights to be morons and to ignore serious mental defects. But when they use that club against me, I shall rightfully object to my rights being suppressed to feed their fantasies.
Marriage is the union of a man and a woman in matrimony. A concept so simple that a majority of California’s voters braved the gauntlet of liberal guilt and screaming homosexuals to go enshrine it in their constitution. Any candidate, from any party, who wishes to step on such a statement from the voters does so at the risk of failure when it comes to standing before them at the polls.
PFL
Jeb is dead.
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