Hugh Hewitt: Jeb Bush ‘Is Very, Very Conservative’

TODD: “Let’s turn to tomorrow and Jeb Bush, Hugh. I watched that whole video, the little teaser, as we note, and I noted, he really is running on compassionate conservatism, but don’t call it compassionate conservatism. And he is not going to be one of those Republicans that leads with national security first.”

HEWITT: “Right. Yeah, well Andrea pointed out that Mike Murphy, his campaign consultant, was already tweeting out that he hasn’t been rebranded, he’s been saying the same thing for many years. Jeb Bush is going to run on everything because he’s got the best resume of anyone in the race. He’s going to run on his vast experience as governor of Florida, but I do think national security is going to dominate. Stanley McChrystal was in my studio for nearly two hours on Friday. ISIS makes 100 million social media contacts a day. And as General McChrystal pointed out, it takes only a very small percentage of that to radicalized significant numbers. We are living in perilous times. So that’s coming out.”

TODD: “Very fast, Hugh, is Jeb Bush conservative enough for today’s Republican party?”

HEWITT: “He is very, very conservative, yes. Common Core is an issue, you pointed out at the beginning of the show, he needs to address that with the base.”

TODD: “So you really do?”

HEWITT: “Absolutely.”

TODD: “And maybe flip?”

HEWITT: “Distance himself from that which was Common Core and what it is today.”