Bush campaign releases devastating web ad against Trump

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I maintain that Trump's appeal rests way more in his attitude than in his stance on issues. It's identity politics to the extreme. Trump will call these shallow attacks, they'll be dismissed with the wave of a hand, and, in the end, they will have only fed into his image and narrative.

Agreed. Trump is doing what Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison did to great effect: running on his image as a no-nonsence champion of the common man and avoiding the issues whenever possible.

Very true, all of this.

We haven't had a campaign like this since Ronald Reagan was alive.  I would argue that, for good or bad, a campaign of this type happening in an American Presidential election is long overdue.

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Dear God look at all the damn idiots in the comment section.

"WOOT GO0000 TRUMP FCK BUSH, JEB JUST DOESN'T GET IT!"

Get what? The fact you are riding an absolute clown's tail who can't even decide which political party (4 in the past 15 years) he is interested in being in? Somebody who will literally bullsh**t his way into whatever staunch social conservatives want to hear? I hate my party having a base of an idiots, it truly pains me sometimes.

So many idiots it hurts, truly hurts.

Thank you, I couldn't agree more.

Ronald Reagan was a rock solid conservative as President. He was the first President to implement a Mexico City policy, he signed historic tax relief into law, he reduced regulations, he had a Fed. Chairman who had a good monetary policy, he supported strict constructionist judges, he took on the air traffic control union and won, and he reformed social security on a bi-partisan basis.

Yet, he granted amnesty to illegals in 1986 and he expanded medicaid. I have criticized John Kasich and Chris Christie for expanding medicaid, and I disagree with Reagan on that issue. But I have not called Kasich a liberal, nor would I call Reagan a liberal. Unfortunately, some in the modern Republican Party would.

There are two issues where Jeb Bush is in the minority with the GOP base. First, his position on illegal immigration, I share his views on this. The base says he supports "amnesty," that is factually incorrect. In fact, 51% of Republicans polled support a pathway to citizenship, that is actually a position to the left of mine and Governor Bush's. The second issue is Common Core, what is interesting here is that it is a complete lie that the federal government created common core, it's state driven and Jeb Bush has said he doesn't want the federal government being involved with educational standards. I personally oppose Common Core and want my state to opt-out, Chris Christie was ready to embrace common core until he decided to run for President. I'm glad we are opting-out.

But let's forget about Jeb Bush here. I have had enough of some in the tea party making false claims about Republicans who don't agree with them 100% of the time. There are plenty of Republicans I like who I don't agree with on every issue. Some are moderate, some are conservative. Even the tea party isn't consistently conservative - their opposition to trade promotion authority is based on paranoia, it's not fact based. I don't see the point in trying to agree with everyone 100% of the time because no one can find another person they always agree with. That's the main issue I have with people like Ted Cruz, if you aren't with them on one issue, you are cast as a "RINO." It seems the most popular figures in today's conservative AND liberal movements have accomplished nothing. What did Barack Obama accomplish before 2008? What has Ted Cruz accomplished? NOTHING.

In a way Bush is like Huntsman. Everyone thought Huntsman was a sane moderate. Truth was as Gov he was pretty conservative. However, there were a few issues where he antagonized the GOP base. He ended up with 1%. Bush has done the same thing but immigration and common core are more important to the Base than anything Huntsman pissed them off about.

Conservative or not. Bush has gone out of his way to piss off primary voters. Fact is history was cruel to Yeb when he lost in FL in 1994. Had we won, I am sure he, not GW would have been president in 2000 and Yeb would have likely won a much bigger victory in both the EC and won the NPV by 1-3%. Carrying FL easily along with OR, IA, NM maybe even MI and PA. Closer to 300 EVs not 271. Much of the acrimony in the country today (not all) stems from Bush 2000.

But Yeb missed his chance and there is no way he will ever be elected.

Jeb may well be elected, but it won't be easy.

I agree with the highlighted part of dudeabides post.  Oddly enough, it's this syndrome that's produced the Trump phenomienon as much as anything.  The Tea Party nit-pickers say "You haven't voted perfectly!  You're a RINO!"  Somehow, this isn't as relevant to YOUR life as Donald Trump saying to this competition, "I've don BIG things and you can't find the bathroom!  You're a LOSER!"  Voters don't really care about the first, but they care very much about the second because a loser as President negatively impacts their lives.  And, so far, they agree with Trump's "loser" assessments.

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

Dear God look at all the damn idiots in the comment section.

"WOOT GO0000 TRUMP FCK BUSH, JEB JUST DOESN'T GET IT!"

Get what? The fact you are riding an absolute clown's tail who can't even decide which political party (4 in the past 15 years) he is interested in being in? Somebody who will literally bullsh**t his way into whatever staunch social conservatives want to hear? I hate my party having a base of an idiots, it truly pains me sometimes.

So many idiots it hurts, truly hurts.

Thank you, I couldn't agree more.

Ronald Reagan was a rock solid conservative as President. He was the first President to implement a Mexico City policy, he signed historic tax relief into law, he reduced regulations, he had a Fed. Chairman who had a good monetary policy, he supported strict constructionist judges, he took on the air traffic control union and won, and he reformed social security on a bi-partisan basis.

Yet, he granted amnesty to illegals in 1986 and he expanded medicaid. I have criticized John Kasich and Chris Christie for expanding medicaid, and I disagree with Reagan on that issue. But I have not called Kasich a liberal, nor would I call Reagan a liberal. Unfortunately, some in the modern Republican Party would.

There are two issues where Jeb Bush is in the minority with the GOP base. First, his position on illegal immigration, I share his views on this. The base says he supports "amnesty," that is factually incorrect. In fact, 51% of Republicans polled support a pathway to citizenship, that is actually a position to the left of mine and Governor Bush's. The second issue is Common Core, what is interesting here is that it is a complete lie that the federal government created common core, it's state driven and Jeb Bush has said he doesn't want the federal government being involved with educational standards. I personally oppose Common Core and want my state to opt-out, Chris Christie was ready to embrace common core until he decided to run for President. I'm glad we are opting-out.

But let's forget about Jeb Bush here. I have had enough of some in the tea party making false claims about Republicans who don't agree with them 100% of the time. There are plenty of Republicans I like who I don't agree with on every issue. Some are moderate, some are conservative. Even the tea party isn't consistently conservative - their opposition to trade promotion authority is based on paranoia, it's not fact based. I don't see the point in trying to agree with everyone 100% of the time because no one can find another person they always agree with. That's the main issue I have with people like Ted Cruz, if you aren't with them on one issue, you are cast as a "RINO." It seems the most popular figures in today's conservative AND liberal movements have accomplished nothing. What did Barack Obama accomplish before 2008? What has Ted Cruz accomplished? NOTHING.

In a way Bush is like Huntsman. Everyone thought Huntsman was a sane moderate. Truth was as Gov he was pretty conservative. However, there were a few issues where he antagonized the GOP base. He ended up with 1%. Bush has done the same thing but immigration and common core are more important to the Base than anything Huntsman pissed them off about.

Conservative or not. Bush has gone out of his way to piss off primary voters. Fact is history was cruel to Yeb when he lost in FL in 1994. Had we won, I am sure he, not GW would have been president in 2000 and Yeb would have likely won a much bigger victory in both the EC and won the NPV by 1-3%. Carrying FL easily along with OR, IA, NM maybe even MI and PA. Closer to 300 EVs not 271. Much of the acrimony in the country today (not all) stems from Bush 2000.

But Yeb missed his chance and there is no way he will ever be elected.

Jeb may well be elected, but it won't be easy.

I agree with the highlighted part of dudeabides post.  Oddly enough, it's this syndrome that's produced the Trump phenomienon as much as anything.  The Tea Party nit-pickers say "You haven't voted perfectly!  You're a RINO!"  Somehow, this isn't as relevant to YOUR life as Donald Trump saying to this competition, "I've don BIG things and you can't find the bathroom!  You're a LOSER!"  Voters don't really care about the first, but they care very much about the second because a loser as President negatively impacts their lives.  And, so far, they agree with Trump's "loser" assessments.

What is really odd to me is these folks who won't allow anyone who doesn't agree with them 100% of the time speak are now all for Trump and ignoring his socialist ideals. The problem is, people see someone who speaks their mind and isn't from Washington and they put their own ideas, values, and even ideology aside just to have some outsider be elected. I am very much interested in seeing candidates talk about their ideas, though I do believe Jeb Bush and others need to attack Donald Trump on his personal life in addition to his radical views to stop him. I think what we are seeing is that folks are no longer responding to issues, but to the cult of a personality. When Donald Trump says Jeb Bush is "low energy" it means more to some than Jeb Bush attacking Trump as a leftist. It's very sad because this country relies on people making good judgement calls, the voters made such calls in 2004, 2000, 1988 (sort of but Jack Kemp would have been better), 1984, 1980, 1956, 1952, 1924, and 1920 in both primaries and general elections.

Think about how the country would have been under Strom Thurmond, George Wallace, Jesse Jackson, David Duke, Lyndon LaRouche, Pat Buchanan, or Al Sharpton. We wouldn't be the country we are today, and if we elect Donald Trump, we will no longer be the country we have always been. The general election next year will be about the economy and foreign policy, it will be a referendum on Washington's policies. But this primary has become something else. It's become a question of if America will still be America. People who support Donald Trump are basically saying they want our country to be something it is not; a racist, socialist country. That's why the top priority of the GOP must be to deny Donald Trump the nomination, it's about saving America.

Perhaps the reaso they don't attack Trump on his personal life is that they know (or at least believe) that they live in gglass houses.  You think finding dirt on Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, or even Jeb Bush is overly taxing for Donald Trump?