Did former Florida Governor Jeb Bush just concede that if he runs for President in 2016, that winning GOP primary race will be a very heavy lift for him?
This past Monday Bush spoke at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council dinner, where he reiterated that he was still looking into a presidential bid, but wasn’t sure about putting his family through a grinding and possibly “ugly” national political campaign. In Bush’s words, a decision to run would made in “short order.”Bush then said that if he were to be able to run a successful presidential campaign in 2016, that it would have to be willing to embrace a “lose the primary to win the general” strategy.
Embrace a “lose the primary to win the general” strategy?
Other potential Conservative Republican presidential hopefuls, like Gov. Rick Perry and Senator Ted Cruz, could be licking their chops at a chance to pound Bush on his support for amnesty for illegal immigration, as Common Core education standards.take our poll - story continues belowDo you think the 2nd Amendment will be destroyed by the Biden Administration?(2)
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“It’s a pretty ugly business right now,” Bush said. “So I’m not saying, ‘Oh, woe is me.’ Don’t get me wrong. There’s a level under which I would never subjugate my family because that’s my organizing principle, that’s my life. I think people kind of appreciate that. So, I’m sorting that out.”-Politico
Both Perry and Cruz oppose amnesty for illegal aliens and Common Core.
These issues alone could derail a Bush candidacy, as the base of the Republican Party-the grassroots activists-are squarely against both measures, and are currently pushing the anti-amnesty and anti-Common Core momentum.
To his credit, Bush has recently come out against Obama’s executive amnesty orders, but he can expect to get dinged for past and current position favoring a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens, if he decides to make the run.
Bush is right, “it’s a pretty ugly business,” that will certainly get uglier for him.
Again, that is if he decides to run for president.