JEB BUSH: REPUBLICANS DON'T NEED CONSERVATIVES TO WIN WHITE HOUSE, SHOULD NOT DEFUND EXEC AMNESTY

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Breitbart:

Even though moderate Republican candidates lose presidential elections without the conservative base (see: George H.W. Bush '92, Bob Dole '96, John McCain '08, Mitt Romney '12), former Florida Governor and potential presidential candidate Jeb Bush thinks conservatives are not needed to win the White House.

Bush believes that a presidential candidate who is "willing to lose the primary to win the general" has the best shot at the White House.

 

"I don’t know if I’d be a good candidate or a bad one," Bush said at a Wall Street Journal CEO Council meeting on Monday evening in Washington, D.C. "I kinda know how a Republican can win, whether it’s me or somebody else – and it has to be much more uplifting, much more positive, much more willing to be... ‘lose the primary to win the general’ without violating your principles. It’s not an easy task, to be honest with you."

 

Should Bush run, his embrace of comprehensive amnesty legislation and Common Core will put him at odds with conservative voters in the early primary states. Bush, who said he would make a decision in "short order" about whether he will be a presidential candidate, revealed on Monday that he thinks a moderate Republican who runs as a moderate in the primary has the best chance of winning the White House.

 

Bush has shown every indication that he will not pander to conservatives and take positions that are at odds with what he truly believes so that he is not viewed as a phony politician like Mitt Romney, who tried to have it both ways on nearly every issue.

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So much for him being "the smart one."

 

[Cyber_Liberty]

Looks like a winning strategy. Go for it.

[Valin]

Looks like a winning strategy. Go for it.

 

[SrWoodchuck]

Read where Boehner has already planned to capitulate to Oblunder fund the amnesty until March & then see if they'll want to fund it completely, after that.....

 

Why have "the power of the purse" if you never use it?

 

 

[Valin]

Don’t Bother to Pander, Jeb

John Hinderaker

December 2, 2014

 

Jeb Bush apparently wants to be the Jon Hunstman of 2016–the Republican presidential candidate who gets respectful treatment from the liberal press because he isn’t one of those awful conservatives. The New York Times reports that Bush has promised not to pander:

 

 

Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida was blunt Monday night: If he runs for president in 2016, he will not pander to his party’s conservative base in the primaries.

 

Mr. Bush said at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council in Washington that Republican candidates must be willing to “lose the primary to win the general, without violating your principles.”

 

“It’s not an easy task, to be honest with you,” he added.

 

 

No one ever said getting elected president was easy, but it is harder if your political principles are out of step with the party whose nomination you seek.

 

(Snip)

[Pepper]

Should Bush run

 

[SrWoodchuck]

THE GOP IS 'GRUBERING' US!

 

SENATOR SESSIONS: Is the Republican Party Going to Keep Its Promise to Fight Amnesty or Not?

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2014/12/senator-sessions-is-republican-party.html

 

The following statement is from Sen. Jeff Sessions‘ website. Judging from his statement, it appears the new GOP draft on amnesty rejects pretty much nothing that Obama is demanding.

 

It’s all okay with the GOP – work permits, Social Security, Medicare, all of it is okay.

 

The fact that Congress rejected this five times and that Obama’s actions are illegal seems to be eluding the GOP. The fact that they were elected to stop Obama also seems to have eluded the GOP.

 

The GOP seem to think the worst thing in the world is to allow Obama to close the government down since he and the media will blame the GOP. It would be so terrible that they will let Obama do anything he wants to avoid it.

 

The Chairman of the Republican Party made a promise to America on executive amnesty: ‘We can’t allow it to happen and we won’t let it happen… everything we can do to stop it we will.’

 

Unfortunately, the plan now being circulated in the House fails to meet that test.

 

The executive amnesty language is substantially weaker than the language the House adopted this summer, and does not reject the central tenets of the President’s plan: work permits, Social Security, and Medicare to 5 million illegal immigrants—reducing wages, jobs, and benefits for Americans.

 

Congress considered and rejected these changes to immigration law in 2006, 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2014. The President’s action erases the laws Congress has passed in order to implement laws Congress has refused to pass.

 

Now the President demands Congress fund his imperial decree and declare its own irrelevance.

DougRoss@Journal via iOTWReports