Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad, they would have a hard time [winning the GOP primaries] if you define the Republican party, and I don’t, as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for disagreement, doesn’t allow for finding some common ground.
– Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, decrying the takeover of the party by the tea party, the ultra-right wing of his party which, until January 2009, was known as his brother George W. Bush’s “base.”
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