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My girlfriend is from Venezuela and is completely apolitical (she doesn't even have much of an opinion one way or another about Hugo Chavez) but when she sees Jeb Bush on Spanish language television speaking fluent Spanish (with hardly a trace of an accent) she gets very favorably animated. Ditto for her Hispanic friends. And if a Republican can win at least half the Hispanic vote in 2008 he would be a shoo-in.

Bush-Romney would be a great ticket. I think the talk of Bush-Fatigue is real, but it is only a media phenomenon. He would get nominated and the networks would say "will America really elect another Bush" the requisite 1000 times and then they would just have to get on with it. Jeb is a good conservative Republican. He locks up the South, his home state of FL, TX by default, and his Spanish (language and family) give him a big boost in states like AZ, NM, NV, & CO. Romney is strong as a VP for all the reasons listed in earlier posts and his only weakness (religious stereotype) is overcome by running with Bush. If Romney could deliver MA it would be all over but the shouting.

There are a lot of so-called conservatives at FR who believe that going out of their way to bash Hispanics (they're not racist, of course... sigh...) is a good way to get conservatives elected.