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Redstate
Jeb Bush as
Jeb, Not George Or Anti-George
By: Erick Erickson
July 20th, 2015
Today, Jeb Bush is going to start laying out what he stands for in
terms of policy. He, more than any of the other Republican candidates,
walks a delicate balance. He is anchored by his last name and his
brother’s legacy. If he tilts too far one way, there is no maneuvering
he can do to distance himself from claims that he is the second coming
of his brother’s Administration. He’s already received criticism for
hiring too many people connected to his brother.
If Jeb Bush tilts the other way, he risks headlines that declare him
throwing his brother under the bus and repudiating his brother’s
legacy. Those stories have a way of getting away from you.
Today, Jeb Bush intends to take the Jeb path — saying what he intends
to do based on what he did in Florida. It is a softer way of saying he
is not his brother. The political press is now filled with stories that
George W. Bush viewed conservatism as whatever he declared it to be. In
eight years, domestic spending kept increasing and if anyone complained
they were labeled anti-war. In fact, the historic record now reflects
that the war spending itself was not nearly as outrageous as the
runaway domestic spending. Bush, with a Republican Congress, let the
Republicans get away with anything domestically so long as the war was
funded.
Today, Jeb Bush intends to signal that he is not a big spending
Republican and has the record to prove it. In a preview of his speech I
was given, he says this:
The ultimate disruption of Washington is to reject,
as I do, the whole idea of a government forever growing more, borrowing
more, and spending more – beyond anyone’s ability to control or even
comprehend. And I have no illusions about what reform really takes. The
next president has got to confront the spending culture of Washington –
and I will do it.
I think we’ve learned by now that you can have a
fast-expanding economy, or you can have a fast-expanding government,
but you cannot have both. You have to choose, as I did when I was
governor of the fourth-largest state...
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