Rubio is presently a greater threat, since he's from Juan's home state of Florida and has been running neck-and-neck in the polls with him. But Rubio's six-year term is up in 2016, so he'll have to make a decision whether he really wants to abandon his safe Senate seat at age 44. And guess what -- a young GOP congressman in the Sunshine State just announced he'll be running for Rubio's seat. Tighten the screws, boys. Force Marco to decide if he wants to roll the dice. That would leave Cruz in the Hispanic bracket. He's from Texas, but fortuitously, former Gov. Rick Perry is back for more... surrounded by the Barbour family from Mississippi... Last year they propped up a fading rubber stamp U.S. senator named Thad Cochran... Cochran won in a runoff; the Barbours are good. They're also this close to the Bushes. Perry is nowhere in the polls, but every campaign dollar he takes out of Texas is one Ted Cruz won't get. Cruz is an evangelical Christian, and guess what -- so is Huckabee! Your mission, Mike, is to drain off Cruz votes in Iowa. Maybe whisper that he's a Mormon... Am I being paranoid? I don't think so. When JFK first ran for Congress, he neutralized an opponent named Joe Russo by putting in another guy named Joe Russo. When Billy Bulger was in a jam against Dr. John deJong, suddenly a mystery candidate named DuPass appeared on the ballot. The list is endless. I just found one of them on the MBTA pension list, the brother of a local Mafioso. After his "campaign," this guy went on the T and now has a pension of $45,000 a year.
If Jeb is able to marginalize Republican contenders quickly then he can get the Republican party nomination. If Hillary is destroyed then Jeb might become President of the United States. All of this is possible. Will a President Jeb Bush spin all the bad things that Obama and Clinton did so that the bad deeds will be seen as good? We could see evidence of the two party system combining into one.