With an eye on the primary, Jeb Bush signals a campaign against liberalism

[LiberalElite]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/eye-primary-jeb-bush-signals-campaign-liberalism/

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The ‘fire in the belly’: One of the potential criticisms of Jeb Bush as a candidate is that he doesn’t have the “fire in the belly,” that he’s been out of the game. Well, he was no Fred Thompson at his speech and following Q&A Wednesday at the Detroit Economic Club. Bush came across as a man very much engaged and, above all, ready to make a robust case for conservatism, one that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan failed to do. He may have been a little stilted stylistically on TelePrompTer and much better in the Q&A, but he signaled that a third Bush presidential campaign, if he embarks on one, would be, in part, a crusade against liberalism, in particular liberal economic theory — and he won’t be afraid to take the message to places Republicans have been accused of overlooking. “I say: Let’s go where our ideas can matter most, where the failures of liberal government are most obvious,” Bush said of cities like Detroit. “Let’s deliver real conservative success.”

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[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. Campaign Against Liberalism....Who can blame him

If I was a spoiled white rich prick who never worked a day in his life, who benefited from profits from all kinds of illegal an immoral activity, who benefited from racism and bigotry, I wouldn't want true liberals to get anything done here either

[pscot]

2. Liberalism is all about protecting the property interests

of rich pricks. It always has been.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

3. What?

[LiberalElite]

6. You've been here long enough to post 18,000 + times?

Interesting.

[pscot]

7. Read Locke and Hume

the guys who invented it. Liberalism was a progressive idea in 1695. Not so much now days.

[LiberalElite]

9. ok

[msongs]

8. he might as well, dems certainly spend little effort defending liberalism nt

[onecaliberal]

4. Go the fuck away Bush!!!!

[GeorgeGist]

5. Jeb Bush’s humiliating whiff: Why bad polls and a lame speech are killing his hype.

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/05/jeb_bushs_humiliating_whiff_why_bad_polls_and_a_lame_speech_are_killing_his_hype/

[Thor_MN]

12. His speech lacked details, because his party's policies CREATED the "Opportunity Gap."

How are you going to detail the fix for that problem, when you created it? He certainly can't say "you know, they were right, Supply Side, Trickle Down was a colossal fuckup. I'm going to raise taxes on the rich and lower taxes on the poor.."

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Wonder if he will similarly be visiting the conservative failed state

of Kansas (and many other "red states" run by Republicans)?

[craigmatic]

11. We need a nominee who will defend government as a useful tool to help people.

I doubt we get one though.

[question everything]

13. Whoever s/he is, will be far better than the most enlighted Republican (nt)

[Cosmocat]

16. There is a LOT of room to run with this

EASY pickings to BOTH point out the failures of trickle down economics AND the importance of our safety net during these tricky economic times.

However, given the nature of democrats, YES, likely someone scared of his or her own shadow.

[libdem4life]

14. Something new and different ... go get 'em Jeb. LOL

[winter is coming]

15. Please proceed. n/t

[Cosmocat]

17. This just is not a winner for republicans

The people of this country are ... well, not sharp about politics, for sure.

But, there is just TOO FAR to big of a gap between reality and this spin they are trying to do when we have a decent economy overall, but stagnation of wages for most, where it is LIBERAL policies that are a problem.

People will lap up republican bullshit in big heaping doses, but this one just is not going to fly because overtly times are just not bad enough, they can't blind people with fear on this. MAYBE if it was a big economic downturn and you had a democratic president you could sell it, but when times are OK, not great, not horrible, hard to get people to buy trickle down when it has been such an unmitigated failure. They can't run AGAINST PBO on this.

I am absolutely sure they will gin something else up, but unless the economy takes a big downturn, this ain't it.