[Fresh Wind]

Bush will lose regardless of what Trump does.

[conservativejoy]

Yes, Bush will lose , but he would also mean a Third Party run by Trump.. Better to nominate someone else to begin with.

[Ohioan]

If nothing else comes of the Trump efforts--and to be personally frank, although I lean towards Ted Cruz--I believe that Donald Trump has already performed an enormous service to America over the past week or so. One aspect of that service is that he has rendered the Jeb Bush promotion irrelevant. The ease with which Trump outdistanced Bush, almost within mere hours, exposed the absolute inadequacy of Bush as a leader.

That is perhaps a long-winded way of agreeing with your statement. Just as Teddy Roosevelt outpolled my fellow Ohioan in 1912, where Taft was the Republican nominee and Teddy ran on his own ticket; a Trump Third Party would out-poll a Republican Jeb Bush ticket. We have had a preview of that fact over the past week.

That said, I hope the analytically challenged "pundits" in the Republican establishment in Washington, will not continue to play stupid, and drive this potential very, very serious asset, away.