“See ya, governor”, Bush said.
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The NY Times’ Maggie Haberman and Michael Barbaro reported Monday night that the super PAC’s chief strategist has even “boated of his willingness to spend as much as $20 million” to halt Rubio’s rise in the polls. “It’s a chance to be able to say what you think”. “I wouldn’t kill young Adolf, I would take him from his parents and raise him with love”.
Rubio countered by saying that Bush was only criticizing him because “we’re running for the same position, and someone has convinced you that attacking me will help you”.
“Hell yeah, I would!” the former Florida governor told HuffPost.
According to Florida Politics, Bush is looking to engage the debate on his own terms and will take a more aggressive persona and stances.
“That’s the way I’ve been trained to do it, so now I’m learning the new art of acknowledging the question, being respectful of the questioner of course and then answering what’s on my mind”, he added.
Coupled by weak debate performances, Bush is trying to make build back momentum, as political outsiders like Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson remain GOP front-runners.
Granted, he’ll need to up the insane if he’s gonna, eh, trump his opponents… “I don’t accept that premise”, he said sternly. “We’re electing a president of the United States”.
MI Attorney General Bill Schuette, Bush’s campaign chairman in the state, recently spoke with Bush on the phone. He can’t fix it all at once with a strong performance Tuesday, but he can give his comeback a few badly needed momentum. The results were that 42 percent would “kill a Baby Hitler”, 30 percent would not, and 28 percent were not sure.
Asked if that’s a change from his gubernatorial runs in 1998 and 2002, Bush quipped, “That’s a change from 1953 when I was a little baby”.
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Bush won’t have such stark contrasts this evening when he walks onto a debate stage in downtown Milwaukee with seven other candidates for a session critical to his candidacy.
