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TexasTowelie

(112,385 posts)
Wed May 20, 2015, 07:43 AM May 2015

Liberal groups dig for dirt on Bush, other GOP candidates

Jeb Bush was in New Hampshire, talking to voters about the education standards called Common Core.

Back in Washington, ears perked up on a team that spends all day, every day, scouring television and the Internet for appearances by Republican presidential candidates. A check of the team’s vast video archive unearthed a 2011 clip of Bush seemingly saying something different.

Days later, a 30-second video of the clips appeared on a political blog under the headline: “Jeb Bush’s shifting words on Common Core.”

The quick hit by the Democratic political action committee American Bridge was the latest shot from an opposition war room in the digital age. As their counterparts do on the other side, liberal and Democratic groups such as American Bridge are working to turn every move and utterance by a burgeoning field of Republican presidential hopefuls into a viral tweet, a damaging video or a scathing TV or newspaper story.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article21454773.html#storylink=cpy

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Liberal groups dig for dirt on Bush, other GOP candidates (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2015 OP
Doesn't take much digging to discredit Bush... Human101948 May 2015 #1
And this is why I could never run for office. Erich Bloodaxe BSN May 2015 #2
 

Human101948

(3,457 posts)
1. Doesn't take much digging to discredit Bush...
Wed May 20, 2015, 08:20 AM
May 2015

Just his confusion and evasions on the invasion of Iraq should be enough.

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
2. And this is why I could never run for office.
Wed May 20, 2015, 08:33 AM
May 2015

My posting history on places like this and Daily Kos would be manna from Heaven for oppo research.

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