"Why Not Jeb?"
Just wait for it a bit, we are not there yet, maybe in the fall thats when the pro-Jeb mutterings will start.
The GOP presidential primary style is essentially narrative-driven, tell the right story that both amplifies and explains youself and you've got a huge leg up on the competition.
Right now, there is still a sorting out process going on, everyone is getting a what passes for a fair hearing over on the other side.
In fact at the moment, our own Mit Romney is the flavor du jour tangled abortion views and all.
Soon enough Dr. Frist the National Cat Torturer will get his turn, then High Pitched Rick Santorum and so on through the list. And yet every time their names come up so to will a litany of their weaknesses as candidates, Romney's a squish and he comes from a state the GOP need not win, Santorum comes from another doubtful state, Frist has the proper sun belt bona fides but he is a DC insider yaddah yadda yadda on and on.....until suddenly Jeb Bush's name gets magically thrown in the ring.
He is a catholic southern governor of impeccable authoritarian views, his crazed actions during the Schiavo case will no doubt make him seem heroic to the bomb throwers and he rules a state that the GOP must win in 2008.
And so it goes, La Famiglia Arbusto are all experts in this kind of manipulation, suddenly being the royal brother of the incumbent is small beers next to the liabilities of the competition.
That'll be the story with Jeb, count on it.
These bastards are masters at the art of at once embodying the worst extremism of the GOP and yet somehow making their opponents look like church burners and wierdos.
So look for it this October I'd say, along will some campaign trips on behalf of the usual harassed GOP imcumbents.
Nothing in NH mind you or Iowa...but he'll be out there never fear.
Sick
Demented
Typical
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