Trump on 2002 Iraq comments: ‘Who knows what was in my head’

It even compelled him to pipe up during the neighbour’s national election as it became clear the Martin Liberals’ 2006 re-election strategy hinged on semi-subliminal Bush-bashing.

The GOP Republican debate on CNN was interesting.

Wilkins was the top lawmaker in the state. Bush turned to his wife, who was sitting in the audience next to former first lady Barbara Bush, and said, “Sweetie, this is going to be your anniversary present”. Bush, Bill Mabie said, has “got a lot of depth”.

I have friends who know Bush well and worked with him when he was governor of Florida, and they tell me he has a first-rate mind.

Wilkins spent some time with his old boss this week, travelling together to a campaign event.

But that’s not enough, and Bush knows it. Which is why, for the second time in a single day, he pounded Rubio as an inexperienced, first-term “back-bench” US senator too green for the job.

“That’s because he’s an honourable person”.

Bush only got more prickly in Summerville. South Carolina’s GOP primary is on Saturday. And in a rare political speech, he took a subtle swipe at his family’s tormenter-in-chief.

“People said, ‘Wow, you look like twenty years younger.’ Wow this, wow that”, Bush added.

“We need to slow down a little bit”.

Jeb Bush was so boring that I actually switched to MSNBC to watch Bernie Sanders talk about socialism.

He came in second in Iowa, trounced the competition in New Hampshire and has managed to hold on to a public-opinion-poll lead in SC, where his political rallies consistently draw thousands of fervent fans. Jeb Bush says so. “Well, I do have momentum if you look at the polls and you look at the crowd sizes of our town hall meetings”, Bush responded.

“I just don’t know where all this comes from”. Guess what? Not over. “Mine has been around 32 years of private sector experience and eight years as the most conservative reform-minded governor in 30 years, so it’s a pretty easy sell when you think about it that way”.

Haley said, “Ladies and gentlemen, if we elect Marco Rubio, every day will be a great day in America”. “Now Iraq is a harbour for terrorism”.

“Nation-building is not a place for the USA military”, he said, a main foreign policy point that he has frequently emphasized since the beginning of his campaign. He’s not sure how its veterans will receive these comments, here in a state he refers to as “Bush Country”. Bush told reporters Thursday he’s got money to carry on.

Who’s left in the presidential race? He isn’t involved in this one, but detects big differences.

But Bush was suddenly edgy, speaking with new urgency three days before the “first in the South” primary that helped seal his father’s and brother’s nominations – but where Bush is battling for third or fourth place.

Also, the elder Bushes each faced one major rival: Bob Dole and John McCain. They can hope only to grind along, chip away – and try to keep Trump from reaching 50-percent-plus-1. “He doesn’t stand out the way they do”. Rubio backers suggest a less-than-stellar Cruz showing in SC might put Cruz’s success elsewhere in the region in doubt.