President of the United States is a high-level executive position. There are examples of presidents who did not have a big-time executive resume when they first got elected to the office, but most elected presidents have been governors, with some generals and about 3 senators (reckoning Vice President as being no more of an executive position than senator, thus including Nixon). And neither Nixon nor Kennedy were running against a governor when they won (OK, Hubert Humphre had been a mayor).I await your suggestion of a reasonably fresh name who has big-time name recognition and big-time executive experience and is a conservative - and is not named Bush. I would agree more with your POV if Jeb had stayed in Texas - but as it is, Jeb can say "There has never been a president from the state of Florida, and it's time that there was." I don't think it would be right to hold his lineage against him any more than it would be right to use it to promote him.
In fact GWB is a different person than GHWB - and Jeb Bush is not the same as either one of them. Whose fault is it if no one else in any other state is building the kind of rep that GWB did in Texas or that Jeb is building in Florida? You can't beat somebody with nobody. Or with an over-the-hill senator, please God. The Republican Party should learn its lesson from Senator Dole.
YAWN
Why must a candidate have big-time name recognition four years before his nominating convention? That's asinine.
I have absolutely no idea, but there's never a shortage of presidential candidates. Somebody always steps up.
I'm just sayint that Jeb goes into it with two strikes against him. The partisan Democrats will be galvanized against yet another Bush. A lot of swing voters would be reluctant to vote for Jeb because of the dynasty issue. And judging from occasional comments on this forum, there are even some Republicans who would have a problem with a Jeb candidacy.
That's not a recipe for victory in what will in all likelihood be another tight race.