NYT: Jeb Bush Stakes Out the Middle Ground (will try to be the McCain / Romney centrist type)

[Jeremy]

When former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida quietly visited Senator John McCain in his Capitol Hill office this fall, discussion turned to a subject of increasing interest to Mr. Bush: how to run for president without pandering to the party’s conservative base.

“I just said to him, ‘I think if you look back, despite the far right’s complaints, it is the centrist that wins the nomination,’ ” Mr. McCain, an Arizona Republican, said he told Mr. Bush.

In the past few weeks, Mr. Bush has moved toward a run for the White House. His family’s resistance has receded. His advisers are seeking staff. And the former governor is even slimming down, shedding about 15 pounds thanks to frequent swimming and personal training sessions after a knee operation last year.

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Read the full article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/13/u...run-aims-to-stand-firm-on-positions.html?_r=0

 

[brushfire]

 

[specsaregood]

Read the full article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/13/u...run-aims-to-stand-firm-on-positions.html?_r=0

so jeb is going to run on the platform of an establishment centrist and randal will be challenging him with a platform of the populist centrist.

 

[Origanalist]

He's been firmly planted on the left so long I guess he feels the need to mark new territory.

 

[devil21]

Anyway, I get the feeling that Bush will run solely so that whatever other owned statist wins the nomination (assuming it's not Rand), people will say "well, at least it's not another Bush."