Bush crowd behind so-called 'conservative' immigration amnesty ad campaign. George Bush will give big pro-amnesty speech Wed. at his library in Texas

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Jeb Bush is a board member of  "American Action Network", the group sponsoring 'conservative' amnesty ads.

7/7/13, "Conservative group to launch ad supporting Senate immigration bill," LA Times, Lisa Mascaro

"As an overhaul of immigration laws shifts to the House, a right-leaning group is launching a new television ad campaign Monday that will call on House lawmakers -- and, implicitly, resistant Republicans -- to support the Senate-passed “border surge” as part of “conservative immigration reform." 

The ad seeks to influence rank-and-file lawmakers as House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) convenes Republicans behind closed doors to assess how the GOP majority will respond to the bipartisan Senate bill.

Many House Republicans oppose the legislation because it includes a 13-year citizenship path for immigrants here without legal status. But influential party leaders think other rank-and-file lawmakers may be interested in a compromise that could help the party’s outreach to the  growing Latino electorate.

“This is the tough border security America needs,” said the television ad, the first to specifically target the House from American Action Network, whose Hispanic Leadership Network has sought to educate lawmakers about immigration. It notes that the surge is supported by conservative leaders, including what is essentially a who’s who of potential 2016 presidential contenders: Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the former vice presidential nominee. The ad will run nationally in prime time this week on the Fox News channel.  

Former President George W. Bush, who will give a high profile immigration speech this week, said Sunday he thinks an overhaul “has a chance to pass.”

It is unclear whether Bush's views will sway the new generation of Republican lawmakers who are more conservative; they view the Bush administration with skepticism because of its runup of the national debt. Bush will discuss immigration in a keynote address Wednesday during a naturalization ceremony at his new presidential library in Texas."...

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7/7/13, "George W. Bush talks Obama, immigration, gay marriage on 'This Week'," UPI, K. Stanton "George and Laura Bush sat down for a taped interview with ABC News' "This Week.""

"Bush said he was pleased that reform was on its way. "It's very important to fix a broken system, to treat people with respect and have confidence in our capacity to assimilate people," he said."...

When asked about gay marriage, Bush said he's not going to give and opinion because "he's out of politics:"

"But warned Karl that he was too far removed from politics to take a stand on gay marriage in the wake of recent Supreme Court rulings. 

“I meant that I wasn’t going to answer the question then, and I’m not going to answer it now,” Bush told Karl. “I just don’t want to wade back into the debate. I’m out of politics.” Bush then averred a bit. “I meant it’s very important for people not to be overly critical of someone else until you examine your own heart.”

“I’m not going to wade into those kinds of issues," he added. "The only way I can really make news is either criticize the president, which I don’t want to do, criticize my own party, or wade in on a controversial issue. I’m off the stage.”"...

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Comment:  You're not "off the stage" if you're giving a big amnesty speech Wed. at your Texas library. You trashed this country for 8 years, refused to secure our border, solidified Goldman Sachs foothold in US government. Jeb will be worse. Then Jebby.

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Bush crowd started "American Action Network" in 2010:

8/10/2012, ""The American Action Network," factcheck.org

"The American Action Network was formed in February 2010 by Norm Coleman, a former Republican senator from Minnesota, and Rob Collins, a former chief of staff to House Minority Whip Eric Cantor....Prominent board members of the network also include Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and Ed Gillespie, a former chairman of the Republican National Committee."...

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Bush group "American Action Network" spent at least $600,000 trying to defeat a Tea Party supported candidate against their guy 80 year old Richard Lugar:

4/19/12, "Senate Races 2012: Republican Establishment Tries To Tamp Down Tea Party Insurgency," Huffington Post, Paul Blumenthal

"Last week, the American Action Network, a conservative group with ties to the Republican Party in Washington, D.C., launched a campaign of negative ads against Mourdock, costing $590,000. Major donors, including former fundraisers for President George W. Bush and McCain, are putting money into pro-Lugar super PACs."...
 
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Lobbyist Tom Ridge is a member along with Jeb Bush of "American Action Forum" a 'sister' group of American Action Network. Following mentions group member Fred Malek and group favorites Kelly Ayotte and Richard Lugar:

2/9/13, "Mitch McConnell Had Previously Floated Karl Rove Idea To Target Weak Tea Party Candidates," Huffington Post, Peter H. Stone 

"The (American Action) Network has focused mainly on helping the GOP win House races, but (Fred) Malek pointed out that his group had also run ads in some Senate primaries: The group ran ads to help Kelly Ayotte, who won in New Hampshire, and Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, who lost his primary battle to conservative darling Richard Mourdock, who went on to lose in November.

“I wouldn’t hesitate to do it again in the future if we saw the need,” Malek said."
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George Bush #1 and #2 cavalierly destroyed the GOP. It's long since time for conservatives to stop acting like battered wives, said Peggy Noonan in 2007:

In June 2007, at the time of the George Bush big amnesty push, Peggy Noonan said it was "more than time" for the grassroots to break from the GOP, that 'battered wife syndrome" had ensued since at least 2004. In 2013 the GOP barely exists. Ms. Noonan says her own separation from the Bush admin. began in Jan. 2005:
 
6/2/2007, "Too bad," Wall St. Journal column by Peggy Noonan:

"What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting down a historical marker -- "At this point the break became final." That's not what's happening. What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future."....

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The Tea Party focus is to stop the sellout of this country:

4/19/2012, "K Street and Tea Party again fight for soul of GOP," Tim Carney, Washington Examiner

""We don't need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples," former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said last election cycle. "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them." Lott is now a millionaire corporate lobbyist whose clients include bailout beneficiaries like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, subsidy sucklers like General Electric and for-profit colleges and government contractors like Raytheon. He likes Republicans who don't take their limited-government talk so darn seriously -- team players who won't rock the boat, in part because they are eying K Street jobs after retirement....

Trent Lott vs. Jim DeMint. K Street vs. the Tea Party. The Chamber of Commerce vs. the Club for Growth. The battle lines are the same this year."...

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On George Bush ensuring Goldman Sachs' foothold:

1/27/12, "Mark Carney: The Goldman Sachs connection," UK Telegraph, R. Blackden

"The bank’s reputation really took hold when George W Bush picked Hank Paulson, Goldman’s former chief executive, as his Treasury Secretary in 2006."...