Politico reported Jeb Bush has been facing opposition from conservative talk show hosts as he is expected to announce he is running for President.
Those who are vocally opposing his expected bid for President are Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levine, Laura Ingraham and Glenn Beck.Rush Limbaugh said:
He’s not a conservative.
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He continued to say:
Mark Levin has said:The ideal, the perfect ticket, for the 2016 election: Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush. . . No, they can figure out who’s on the top of the ticket on their own, but when you compare their positions, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush, on the key, important issues, they are two peas in the same pod.
You know what Jeb Bush is? He’s an old-time liberal Republican.
Laura Ingraham said:
If I had to bet right now, he’d be the nominee; and if I had to bet right now, he’ll lose.
Lastly, Glenn Beck has said:
I think Jeb Bush . . . despises people like us.
Politico said Jeb Bush’s aides have referred to the talk show hosts as “warlords” because they have an “unreasonable, unrealistic and pugilistic agenda” they also “thrive off of conflict.”
Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center has told Politico in objection to what Bush’s aides have said, in reality Bush has “a conservative problem.”
Ingraham has also said Bush is the easiest candidate for Clinton to beat because he divides the party and the GOP needs someone to unify it.
Jeb Bush himself has said:
I kinda know how a Republican can win, whether it’s me or somebody else – and it has to be much more uplifting, much more positive, much more willing to be . . . ‘lose the primary to win the general’ without violating your principles. It’s not an easy task, to be honest with you.
What he was implying is that he does not feel he needs to conservative support to ultimately win.