GOP '16ERS PANDER TO RIGHT

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GOP '16ERS PANDER TO RIGHT

Jeb Bush entertains flat tax. W. Post:
…Bush began an aggressive outreach to more suspicious conservatives with an appearance before [the Club for Growth] … Bush said that he was open to a flat tax and that his eventual policy plan would be ‘bigger and broader tax relief.'”

More:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/facing-skepticism-jeb-bush-begins-outreach-to-conservatives/2015/02/26/fcd47b1c-bdd9-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html


Jeb addresses CPAC today. The Hill:

“Bush will have to face his two biggest liabilities among conservatives head on Friday — his support for Common Core and immigration reform.”

More:
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/234069-bush-steps-into-the-lions-den


Gov. Scott Walker says busting unions prepares him to defeat ISIS. The Hill:

“‘If I can take on 100,000 protestors, I can do the same across the world,’ Walker said in response to a question about international terrorism [at CPAC]”

More:
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/234037-walker-i-took-on-unions-i-can-take-on-isis


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[Agnosticsherbet]

1. For Republicans the tendancy has been to pander to the right in the primary

and tack to the center in the general.

This was a lot easier to do before the internet created an institutional memory of every stupid thing they say.