Title: Jeb Bush on Trump: 'You're damn right I'm going to fight back' Source:
CNN URL Source:http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/03/polit ... ld-trump-fight-back/index.html Published:Sep 3, 2015 Author:By Ashley Killough, CNN Post Date:2015-09-04 16:34:22 by X-15 Keywords:Bush, Mistake Views:120 Comments:2
Laconia, New Hampshire (CNN)—A fiery Jeb Bush ramped up his rhetoric against presidential rival Donald Trump Thursday night in yet another show of force as the former Florida governor changes tactics to go after the Republican front-runner.
Taking questions from voters at a Veterans of Foreign Wars facility here, Bush pledged not to get personal but vowed to throw counterpunches if Trump goes for the jugular: his family.
"I'm going to push back when he says things that are ugly, that I think will damage our brand, damage our ability to be successful," the former Florida governor said. "I'm sure as hell -- when he attacks me personally or disparages my family -- you're damn right I'm going to fight back."
His comments come after Trump criticized Bush on Wednesday for speaking Spanish too often on the campaign trail. Bush, whose wife is from Mexico and who lives in the Miami area, spent a large part of Thursday responding to Trump's swipe, calling it "bizarre" and illogical.
Bush said that perhaps what was more offensive "was the notion that somehow I went down to the border and spoke Mexican."
"Those are dog whistle terms," Bush continued. "He knows what he's doing."
Bush was referring to a tweet that Trump retweeted last week: "Jeb Bush is crazy, who cares that he speaks Mexican, this is America, English!!"
During his stump speech, Bush got big applause and cheers from the audience when he alluded to Trump's complaints about Bush's bilingual abilities.
"My belief is that most people are conservative, they just haven't been asked yet," he said, before adding with a heavy dose of sarcasm: "If you have that attitude, then you go campaign in the Latino communities -- yeah, maybe a little in Spanish. I apologize."
Taking questions from reporters after the event, Bush said his more aggressive tone is simply him "responding to the personal diatribe that has come (his) way."
Bush, who's dubbed himself the "joyful tortoise" in the race, maintained that he can still keep up his positive style.
"I tell you what, man, I'm not going to sit back and have people call me things I'm not or misrepresent my views," he said. "You can be joyful and be tough. And that's what I am."
Bush also knocked Trump over his interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt Thursday about foreign policy, when Trump accused Hewitt of asking "gotcha questions."
"You got to know who the players are," Bush said. "I'm sure he'll bone up on this now."
At one point a reporter interjected with a "non-Trump question."
Jeb! on the right under that sombrero, looking on adoringly at Poppy Bush saying "Give it 20 years, America will just be an outpost of Olde Mexico":
What an idiot....
“With the exception of Whites, the rule among the peoples of the world, whether residing in their homelands or settled in Western democracies, is ethnocentrism and moral particularism: they stick together and good means what is good for their ethnic group." -Alex Kurtagic
