Jeb Bush: "I don't assume it's my way or the highway." (Says the conniving hard-charger)

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At the Iowa fair last week:

(I am) feeling "a little taller," he said Friday, in his black cowboy boots with "Jeb" emblazoned on the side....

Iowan Barb Wine, a 64-year-old Amway Distributor who also met the former Florida governor in the beer tent Friday.

Moments after Bush had sipped "a cold one" at 10:40 a.m., Wine asked him point blank to explain how he was different from Trump.

He replied that he was a consistent conservative with a proven record.

"I don't assume it's my way or the highway," Bush told her. "I've got deeply held views, but there's a big difference -- I think you can pretty well see it, just in demeanor. I want to broaden out our message to win a larger number of people."

"I respect him and clearly he's made great progress in his campaign, but clearly we're very different. Ultimately, people are going to look at it and notice."

But "he's called you kind of a milquetoast?" Wine pressed Bush, "How do you respond to that?"

"Yeah, well, I go campaign," Bush replied. "I'm going to do it hard, campaign all over -- and I'll turn people towards us.... At some point, you've got to be substantive about what you're going to do."

From January, 2015:

A governor who was known for his my-way-or-the-highway approach — and who rarely was challenged by fellow Republicans controlling the legislative branch — stormed to the brink of a constitutional crisis in order to overrule the judicial branch for which he often showed contempt. Bush used his administration to battle in court after court, in Congress, in his brother's White House, and, even after (Terri) Schiavo's death, to press a state attorney for an investigation into her husband, Michael Schiavo.

While many Republicans espouse a limited role for government in personal lives, Bush, now a leading contender for president in 2016, went all in on Schiavo.

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"This was all about his personal feelings. It had nothing to do with running the state. To make allegations, when he didn't even know Terri, it was just unbelievable," Michael Schiavo, a registered Republican, said in an interview with the Tampa Bay Times. "He never called me, and if he was so interested why didn't he come see her?" he added, recounting how Bush made time to appear on ABC's Extreme Home Makeover show in St. Petersburg but not to see Terri Schiavo, who was minutes away.

From 2006:

The Republican-led Florida legislature recently handed him a string of humiliating defeats, two of them involving education policy, which is expected to be one of the Governor's strongest legacies. Even the state Senate majority leader voted to kill Jeb's attempts to undo the school class-size limits that Floridians had earlier approved in a referendum — Jeb called them too expensive — as well as his efforts to revive his school vouchers program, which the state Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional last year. Some Florida GOP bosses cringed in March when Jeb, in his State of the State address with the Supreme Court justices in attendance, said the justices' voucher ruling "defies decency and common sense."

That fit of pique was another reminder that Jeb's notoriously thin skin is another large part of his legacy — and a potential problem in any presidential bid. Thom Rumberger, a GOP attorney and Jeb friend, calls him "the brightest Governor in this state's history. But to be President he'll need a little moderation and willingness to accept counsel once in a while instead of the my-way-or-the-highway approach he's prone to."

After the recent legislative setbacks, Bush asserted that he doesn't "mind losing when it's based on principles." Aides say he wants his governorship to be known more for what he calls the "B-HAGs" — big, hairy, audacious goals — and few Republican Governors have ever turned a state into the conservative policy laboratory and bellwether that Jeb has made Florida, hanging chads and all.

Another fair-goer, Glenda Hockridge, described Bush as "down to earth" and "understanding" of hardworking people like her.



So, Ms. Barb Wine and Ms. Glenda Hockridge at the Iowa fair, please allow Floridians to educate you.

You obviously both don't know enough about Jeb Bush, the conniving hard-charger, who will force his personal religious and moral beliefs on people, if it suits his political agenda. Is this behavior something that you would find acceptable in a president?

From Floridians, we hope this helps.