Jeb Bush was very good on financial things as Governor of Florida. Crist has been awful, but Jeb really kept the bureacracy back and also managed to fight off the teachers’ union and improve FL public education dramatically. He was very pro-business and pro-privatization.
The biggest problem I see with him is simply his last name - and the fact that his wife really doesn’t want to be a high-profile political wife.
Yes he was and George sounded good and was very good as governor of Texas but he turned into his father when he got his promotion. It is a genetic syndrome, I believe. I don’t want it at the top again. I think Bushes are incapable of grasping the realities of economics. When George said he was a “conservative keynesian” I knew it was all over and we had got the wrong guy.