[caption id=”attachment_144157″ align=”aligncenter” width=”4980″] Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush speaks at the RedState Gathering Saturday, Aug. 8, 2015, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was in attack mode at the RedState Gathering Saturday.
Far from the most popular candidate at the conservative event, the Republican presidential candidate made sure to play up his number one strength — he’s not President Obama.
“I can promise you this, if it’s about delivering great speeches, I’m not going to be president probably,” Bush said. “I can do OK; I don’t have a self-esteem problem. … We can’t just keep electing people that give great speeches; 2008 is the living proof of that isn’t it?”
According to the Washington Examiner, the jabs just kept on coming. Bush also went after GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in his speech.
He attacked Clinton on the Keystone XL pipeline. At a town hall event on the campaign trail in New Hampshire, she dodged questions about her potential support for it, saying that she couldn’t say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ unless she was elected and in a position to do so.
“She can’t now have an opinion on that — really?” Bush said. “I know what her opinion is. She’s opposed to it. I’m for it.”
Bush also said Trump should apologize for comments he made about Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.
“Do we want to win? Do we want to insult 53 percent of all voters?” Bush said. “What Donald Trump said is wrong. That is not how you win elections. Worse yet, that is not how you bring people together to solve problems.”
