{UAH} Ocen, WBK//Conservative Laura Ingraham tears into the Bushes

Folks;

Here's another highly-spirited Conservative loudmouth who takes an unflattering position on the GOP's next presidential ticket holder. The meanness in her voice, contained in sarcasm and spite, introduces us to her own evaluation of her work.

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Laura Ingraham unloaded on Jeb Bush, the Bush family and Republican elites writ large on Friday morning at CPAC, hours before the former Florida governor is set to take the stage for a question-and-answer session with Fox News host Sean Hannity.

"How many of you in the room are skeptical of a Bush, another Bush term?" the conservative commentator asked, prompting cheers and whistles in the audience.

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Blasting the idea of a Republican coronation of Bush, Ingraham shared her ideas of the ideal conservative candidate, ones that seem to be at odds with the former Florida governor.

"The idea that we should be conducting any type of coronation in the Republican Party today because 50 rich families decide who they think would best represent their interests? No way, José," she said.

Pull back the curtain, Ingraham urged.

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"My friends, when Republicans join the Democrats at the altar of Big Government … and they might call it one year compassionate conservatism," she said, in an apparent reference to the platform on which George W. Bush ran in 2000. "They might call it the next year American greatness conservatism. They might try to rebrand it as a 'right to rise' conservatism," she said, referencing the name of Bush's super PAC.

Ingraham also drew comparisons between Bush and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton.

"Why don't we just call it quits, and Jeb and Hillary can run on the same ticket," she said, to laughter in the hall, noting that the pair agree on Common Core educational standards, immigration reform and trade issues.

"So I'm designing the bumper sticker. It could be 'Clush 2016: What difference does it make?'" she cracked, in reference to the former secretary of state's January 2013 testimony on the Benghazi attack.

Ingraham said Bush "could really explode the gender gap" in the 2016 election, taking a swipe at wife Columba Bush's expensive shopping sprees while he was governor.

"I think women could actually turn out in droves for Jeb Bush," she said. "I mean, what woman doesn't like a man who gives her a blank check at Tiffany's?"