Jeb Bush: No Place For Father, Reagan In Today's GOP

[Patricia M. McBride]

Mr Jeb Bush is wrong about the reason Reagan might not like the current republican party.  He wouldn't like it because on the political spectrum, right now, it falls between center and the left where the democratic party used to be before the lion's share of them took the socialist oath but didn't both changing parties.  I think Reagan would have liked and respected the tea party for trying to pull the republican party back to it's center right roots where the government operates at it's optimal best!  This guy is blowing smoke, and we need to worry about him running for another public office if this is how he really feels!

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The “dysfunction” is “disturbing,” says the former Florida governor. A pox on both parties.     

The “dysfunction” is “disturbing,” says the former Florida governor. A pox on both parties.

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush on Capitol Hill earlier this week. (Getty Images / Chip Somodevilla)

Posted Jun 11, 2012 8:11am EDT

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said today that both Ronald Reagan and his father George H. W. Bush would have had a difficult time getting nominated by today's ultra-conservative Republican Party.

"Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad — they would have a hard time if you define the Republican party — and I don’t — as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for disagreement, doesn’t allow for finding some common ground," Bush said, adding that he views the hyper-partisan moment as "temporary."

"Back to my dad’s time and Ronald Reagan’s time – they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan suport," he said. Reagan "would be criticized for doing the things that he did."

Bush cited, in particular, "the budget deal my dad did, with bipartisan support — at least for a while — that created the spending restraint of the ‘90s," a reference to a move widely viewed now as a political disaster for Bush, breaking a pledge against tax increases and infuriating conservatives. It was, Bush said, "helpful in creating a climate of more sustainted economic growth."

"Politically it clearly didn't work out — he was a one term president," his son said.

Bush called the present partisan climate "disturbing."

"It’s just a different environment left and right," he said of "this dysfunction."

And Bush also blamed President Obama for much of the conflict.

"His first year could have been a year of enormous accomplishment had he focused on things where there was more common ground," he said, arguing that Obama had made a "purely political calculation" to run a sharply partisan administration.

Read more here:  http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/jeb-bush-no-place-for-fath...

[Patricia M. McBride]

Agree, and I guess we could assume that Bush is out of touch since all the conservatives (and some faux conservatives) were elected by a majority of the voters in the districts and states where they were voted into office..............so really Mr. Bush is saying the minority is right and the majority is wrong?  At least that is what I am hearing in his statements!

[Peggy Hall]

"Moderates", progressives, and the ilk are what is wrong with today's Republican party and why they keep losing elections, except for us helping them.  Just my take.  Conservatism is back in style but the Rs are back in time.