Salon, 2000: Bush & McCain Both Claim "Maverick" & "Reformer" Title in GOP Primary

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http://archive.salon.com/politics2000/feature/2000/02/10/bush/

LOL! They should find these clips and run them with Grampys current "reformer" claims.

How'd that Reformin' work out? God, save us from any more GOP Reformation!


Bush said, "I'm a reformer with results ... If you want somebody from outside of the system, if you want somebody who can't lay claim to being a chairman of an important Senate committee ... come and join this campaign."

Bush is now selling himself as a maverick governor who took on the special interests in the education and judicial systems -- and won. "When I first ran for governor, I said, 'Give me a chance to reform the education system in the state of Texas,'" Bush said. "'Give me a chance to take on the established interests.' I took on that established interest."

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One reporter asked Bush what had happened to Bush's old campaign slogan of "compassionate conservatism."

"A 'reformer with results' is a conservative who's had compassionate results in the state of Texas," Bush explained in his own inimitable style.