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By STEVEN KURLANDER | Florida Voices Published: July 08, 2012 Updated: July 08, 2012 - 12:00 AM

Since appearing before Congress and lamenting the intolerance found in today's Republican Party, Jeb Bush is continuing to press his case, most recently in a National Review article titled "The Grand Solutions Party."

Bush argues that President Obama has governed from a "One Ideology, One Party, and One Man" perspective "a centralized, planned, command-and-control government."

Bush suggests Republicans present an alternative governing style, one that embraces "policy experimentation and fresh approaches" and presents the GOP as the "party of competing ideas."

"It is time for the Republican Party to offer an alternative. Not just an alternative to President Obama's agenda of liberal government, which is important to do. We need to present an alternative to his approach to governance in general. An approach that applies to every elected office."

For role models, Bush points to New Jersey's Gov. Chris Christie, Louisiana's Gov. Bobby Jindal and Indiana's Gov. Mitch Daniels. These leaders have successfully worked with Democrats on contentious issues, and have expressed divergent opinions on issues such as immigration and social policy.

"The animating force of this governance is diversity and creativity of thinking. And that is how the Republican Party should always be," Bush wrote.

While acknowledging that Republicans should continue to believe in an ideology that encompasses individual achievement and opportunity, and small government, he stressed that strict adherence to ideology is not always practical when attempting to resolve complicated issues.

"Thick black lines of ideology are good at keeping people in, but they are also good at keeping people out. And our party can't win if we keep people out. Our goal is not to assemble a small army of purists. We need a nation of converts. We have seen the other way of governing. It has had its day. It has made its best case. It has failed."

Yet Bush's advocacy for open discussion and tolerance only goes so far.

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