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A conversation between Jeb Bush and National Review Editor Rich Lowry, recorded live from National Review Institute’s 2015 Ideas Summit at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C.
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I tried to give it my best shot but none of my biases against this man’s political aspirations are ameliorated by this interview.
He defends the virtue of Common Core; he couldn’t take the smearing of its pristine honor.
He is the epitome of the milquetoast liberal republicans who’ve been lying to the nation about the conservative credentials. Men like him are rotting out our political conduits, that we need, to effect anything like a conservative agenda nationwide.
I hope he loses like no one’s ever lost before. I want to see the pain and desperation of a crushing loss in his eyes. He’s so busy earning it.
I’m just the opposite of Luke – it’s been a long time since I’ve been as favorably impressed by an interview. Jeb is still not my first pick but I will be much less motivated to oppose him after hearing this talk. I just wish he had a different last name.
He sounds like a candidate who is buying much of what the Mike Murphys of the world are selling. I wish he would run as a Democrat.
This man has no concept of what any citizen with a net worth below $1,000,000 experiences. That tends to diminish his base.
Common core? Open borders? Low wage jobs for everyone except citizens?
He is not his brother, who I believe had empathy for the people who elected him.
Jeb’s scolding, his “I’m a grown up, those that disagree with me are not” posture is insufferable
I like the guy. I’m not sure how he got himself elected gov. I don’t see him elected president. People say he’d be a good president–in a sense, yeah, he’s got that clever man of action life behind him. But a president does need to understand & work with the people. He’s not got that.
There is almost no way Bush can get elected. He’s just old and boring in his presentation. He sounds tired. His last name is Bush.
I prefer Rubio, Fiorina and Walker in that order. But I’d put JEB fourth. I can live with him, and it was comforting to hear from him.
Maybe I’m just a squish (though it would be the first time I’ve ever been accused of it), but I thought Jeb Bush was rather good in this interview. He sounded sincere, intelligent, and well-informed: not at all how I pictured him based on the comments many have made here on Ricochet. In fact, I’m kind of unclear on how some of you on this thread took away from the interview what you have. At the very worst it wasn’t *that* bad!
He’s not my first pick but I thought he did very well in this interview. I’m more willing to listen to him than I was before.
To those who say casually “he’s not my first pick” are giving the Bushies everything they want. All they will do is simply eliminate your preferred candidates and then expect your vote, and you’ve already told them that strategy will pay off.
Jeb is on record saying “I hope I’m your second choice. He will continue to try to muscle out your ‘first choice’. He’s already suceeded with Romney and he’s going after Christie and Rubio. In short, he will do this serially through his extensive network including his allies at Fox News.
So we have this guy with name recognition a decent record as Governor and a ton of money asserting himself into the GOP race because of his family dynamic and naked ambition.
He can’t win. There are enough of us who will proclaim loud and clear he’s not acceptable under any circumstances.
It really doesn’t matter to me what his policy stands are (although they are suicidal when it comes to immigration) he has NO BUSINESS trying to be the third from the same immediate family to become POTUS. It is the apex of chutzpah and elitist arrogance. How can smart people not see this fundamental flaw in his character?
Maybe he’s thinking he should be judged on his own merit, not on the fault of having been born a younger Bush.
He completely dodged the question on Common Core. He stated the need for standards in general and simply assumed that that need justified his support for centralizing those standards. He completely ignored the possibility that one can be for tougher standards and still oppose those standards coming from the federal government.
His answer on immigration sounded good, but the problem is the trust gap. We’ve tried trading amnesty for security before, and thirty years later we’re having the same argument all over again.
I agree with Titus. Jeb should be judged on his own merits; no one should be denied an opportunity because of an accident of birth. I still think he’s lacking on the merits, but apart from the Common Core question, this interview worked in his favor overall.