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The cheap typical ‘vet sitting next to my wife’ close made me think he was GHWB !”Ĭomments such as these could be seen as the vibrant musings of a political fringe. Kasich was the “epic loser” of the night, and as for Bush, he “looked 2001 and desperate. Glenn Beck, a former Fox News star who went on to found the rightwing radio network and website the Blaze, sounded a similar note. “These people really have no clue how desperately frustrated and estranged American voters in both parties are over this issue of rampant illegal immigration and Washington’s absolute refusal to take simple, common sense measures to fix the problem.” Perhaps to Mexico, where he might be happier and find greater success in politics,” Hurt wrote, before going on to capture the anger within the Republican base that Trump is harvesting. “Not only does Mr Bush not belong in the White House or the Republican Party, he should just be deported. Trump on Iraq: "We should have kept the oil." GO TRUMP!- Ann Coulter November 11, 2015Ĭharles Hurt in the Washington Times went as far as to predict that Bush and Kasich, by opposing Trump’s extreme stance on immigration, had sealed their fate. Michelle Malkin, a star of the conservative blogosphere, summed up the strident mood on Twitter when she portrayed Kasich and Bush “bending over backwards on behalf of Obama’s illegal ‘Dreamers’” – immigrants who were brought to the US as children. In the rarified world of the conservative media, a very different account of the event was being written – one in which Trump sealed his leading status by being unbending on immigration, while Bush and Kasich, far from making a tentative comeback, dug their own presidential graves. On foreign policy, both Trump and his immediate rival, the neurosurgeon Ben Carson, looked blustery.īut that’s not how conservative pundits saw it. Commentators noted that it was by far the most substantive debate in the series, with the two former governors Jeb Bush and John Kasich, who represent the establishment wing of the party, using the greater focus on detail to present a dramatically contrasting view on immigration to Trump’s vision of building a wall and ejecting 11 million undocumented immigrants.