Jeb Bush Takes Aim at Fellow Republicans

[steve2470]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/us/politics/jeb-bush-takes-aim-at-fellow-republicans.html

Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida said his father, George Bush, and Ronald Reagan would find themselves out of step with today’s Republican Party because of its strict adherence to ideology and the intensity of modern partisan warfare.

“Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, similar to my dad, they would have had a hard time if you define the Republican Party — and I don’t — as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for disagreement,” Mr. Bush said at question-and-answer session with reporters and editors held Monday morning in Manhattan by Bloomberg View.

“Back to my dad’s time or Ronald Reagan’s time,” he said, “they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support that right now would be difficult to imagine happening.”

Mr. Bush’s comments help solidify his role as the Republican Party’s leading voice of moderation at a time when many in the party — particularly Tea Party adherents — are calling for ever-greater ideological discipline. And he continued a trend this campaign cycle of big-name presidential endorsers going off script from the campaigns they support. Mr. Bush has endorsed Mitt Romney’s candidacy.

*end of excerpt*

stopped clock etc

[Capt. Obvious]

1. My take

He's betting on Romney losing big.

He steps in to "save" his party in 2016.

[MANative]

2. Absolutely.

Nothing but self-serving bull in this.

[jpbollma]

3. Since when is he a moderate!?

[MANative]

5. Never...

It's only ever for show with these clowns.

[pnwmom]

4. It's self-serving but it's also true.

The party was very different in the Reagan-Bush era.

In those days, a conservative like Orrin Hatch could pride himself on working across the aisle with Ted Kennedy.
Now Orrin Hatch is in danger of losing his seat to a tea bagger.

[MANative]

8. That's undeniable....

but it's also clear that the groundwork for today's insanity was laid by those evil bastards.

[pnwmom]

9. Yup. n/t

[hifiguy]

7. That's for sure. Never trust any Bush

any farther than you can throw your car.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. Yup Governor "devious plan" has a devious plan. n/t

[siligut]

10. An out-of-step rethug?

Ol' Jeb must be pretty confident with whoever has his back.

[agent46]

11. triangulating

for big Bush revival in 2016.

[lunatica]

12. He's trying to correct the course so he doesn't become irrelevant

I doubt he's talking to the Teabaggers. He's talking to the old Republicans warning them they better step away from the Teabaggers.

Kissing teabagger's asses like they're doing now would be like the Democrats taking their marching orders from PETA.