Jeb Bush had a hard time at CPAC
Jeb Bush reception at CPAC is not going very well. Early reports stated that there would be buses ready to take supporters to stack the room early.
Because GOP shenanigans like this worked so well for Mitt Romney, and John McCain before him. From Slate:
It sounds like Jeb Bush’s supporters are taking CPAC pretty seriously this year. Emails provided to Slate show that backers of the former Florida governor are busing supporters from downtown Washington D.C. to CPAC in National Harbor, Maryland, and organizing to get them day passes into the event.
It is evident it was not as effective as they hoped. Boos throughout his talk were very audible.
Jeb Bush told the audience that over time they need to start standing for something again. “It’;s good to oppose the bad things,” Jeb Bush said. “But we need to be start being for things.”
Bush was not as vile in his attack on President Obama as Ted Cruz or others. He made the expected comments that President Obama jammed Obamacare, the stimulus, and Dodd-Frank down the throat of America.
Jeb Bush was asked about to major issues that divided him from Conservatives, immigration and common core. He was booed when Sean Hannity mentioned he supported in-state tuition for undocumented citizens. He said he wrote a book about the issues and suggested that those opining buy his book “Immigration Wars” to be more informed on his position.
Jeb Bush did a pretty good job of straddling the fence between using Right Wing rhetoric without dropping his more moderate utterances. He did not address his support for drivers license for undocumented people or in-state tuition. Instead he acknowledge mass deportation will not occur. He accepted the Right Wing false tenet of an unsecured border as a method of appeasement that proved successful with the crowd.
He steered his Common Core support to his support for vouchers.
Hear is the reality. Jeb Bush went into CPAC. Some people walked out. Some people booed. There were a couple of hecklers. But he said nothing to hurt his general election chances. There are a number of Right Wing nuts running. It gives Jeb a chance to get out of the primaries. It seems like a Hillary Clinton v Jeb Bush Presidential election is coming. What does that mean?