Saturday, March 16, 2013

Jeb Bush's center-right vision gets muted CPAC response


http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2013/03/jeb-bushs-centerright-vision-gets-muted-cpac-response-159477.html?hp=f1Article Photo

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush delivered a center-right vision for the future of the Republican Party at CPAC Friday night, urging the party to be more inclusive and asserting his belief in the future of America’s economy.
“Never again can the Republican Party simply write off entire segments of our society because we assume our principles have limited appeal,” he said. “They have broad appeal. We need to be larger than that.”
Bush said that in order to stop alienating potential supporters who might agree with the GOP’s core principles, the party needs to make them feel welcome.
“Many voters are simply unwilling to choose our candidates because those voters feel unloved, unwanted and unwelcome in our party,” he said.
Jeb, should have known speaking the truth to his constituents only gets you a one way ticket to obscurity like Jon Huntsman, who you say?  looks like he is out of touch with is party.
He stayed away from social issues and only mentioned immigration —  the subject of his recently released book — in the context of hope that current reform efforts in Congress are successful.
The crowd's response to Bush's speech  was fairly muted and lacked the energy of earlier CPAC sessions. He received a standing ovation at the end but otherwise got very little applause and cheering.
even right wingers can spot a book plugging a mile away, and given their response to him they might want to remove him from that list of 2016 hopefuls.  maybe they have come to realize who got us here they are not rich so they are feeling that which they support but does not support them.