[See NewsBusters for more.] Should GOP candidates take advice from Chris Matthews? The liberal host on Tuesday night cheered Jeb Bush for standing up to conservatives, touting the likely 2016 candidate for having "guts." The MSNBC anchor pleaded with Bush to keep it up. In a closing commentary, Matthews lauded, "I'm watching Jeb Bush show a lot of guts out there, defending national education standards, and the opportunity for people who came to this country illegally, to become Americans." The host admitted that those positions are going to "be a challenge out there on the stump and all of those town meetings coming down the road, but I hope he sticks to his positions." The Bush campaign team would be unwise to think that Matthews can be counted on for support. In 2014, the excited anchor announced that Hillary Clinton might win 60 percent of the vote in a "sweeping" 2016 landslide.
