ANDREW O'HEHIR on Salon slnm.us/…
Could Jeb-mentum be real?: The GOP’s “low-energy” candidate veers left — and New Hampshire loves it
Andrew has been attending rallies in NH. Only 2 felt authentic, Bernie and...JEB!?!?
What I can tell you for sure is that more than 600 people showed up at the middle school on Salem’s main drag on Sunday morning, at an hour when respectable Republicans ought to be in church, and a whole lot more were outside peering through the doors.
According to Andrew (my bold)
After repeatedly being confounded by the more-conservative-than-thou politics of the Republican race, Bush has made the counterintuitive decision (at least for now) to run to the left of his entire party, with the possible exception of Kasich. That’s a highly relative term in 2016, to be sure. But in terms of the policy positions I heard him talk about on Sunday morning, the differences between Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton on a broad range of issues are more a matter of tone than substance. He said he was done badmouthing Barack Obama, and that Republicans could never win unless they convince voters they care about the poor and the disadvantaged. “I don’t think liberals are bad people,” he said, a sentiment you will not hear from Donald Trump or Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio.
Get me some smelling salts Ma!
But it gets more shocking yet:
More extraordinary still, Bush agreed with a questioner that climate change was a genuine threat to human society and said that “man has to have some influence” in that process.
and more apostasy
He answered a young girl’s question about immigration by observing that it was more of a political issue than a real economic concern, since there has been a net outflow of undocumented migrants back to Mexico in recent years.
AGHH The HORROR!!!
He did not want to agree with one woman’s observation that Obamacare had provided benefits to middle-class families, but ultimately admitted that his own version of “repeal and replace” would incorporate some of its elements, such as guaranteed coverage for preexisting conditions.
Read the full article. It’s quite interesting.