Jeb Bush says his dad and Ronald Reagan wouldn’t fit well in today’s far-right GOP - Herkimer, NY - The Times

Jeb Bush says his dad and Ronald Reagan wouldn’t fit well in today’s far-right GOP

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By Pat Cunningham

For several years now, I’ve been arguing that the two most successful U.S. presidents since World War II, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, couldn’t win a primary election in today’s Republican Party.

A SIMILAR OPINION was expressed this morning by a member of the GOP’s most prominent family:

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush said today that both Ronald Reagan and his father George H. W. Bush would have had a difficult time getting nominated by today’s ultra-conservative Republican Party.

“Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad ...

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