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“Rich is a closet RINO who just outted himself.”

He has been out of the closet for a long time, VR...as has National Review. It is no longer relevant except inside the Beltway echo chamber.

As for Bush, let him run. In her speech at the Reagan ranch, Palin adverted to the coming clash between the anti-Government Reaganism that she now represents and the 20 years of “subtle” Bush-Clinton government expansionism (under the guise of compassion) which led to the financial crisis, big government “on steroids” and Obama, in that order. I believe she intends to run against both Bush and Obama.

If there is no Bush in the primary race, her campaign against the Bushes will be more “subtle”, to use her phrase. If Jeb Bush enters the race, she will be able to draw an even sharper distinction between herself as a kind of retrograde Reagan, on the one hand, and the 22 years of Bush-Clinton-Bush, that spawned Obama and the $14.3 trillion dollar hole we now find ourselves in.

If Bush does run, she would be able at once to attack Obama and disengage herself from Bush’s big government baggage at the same time.

That said, I doubt Bush will run, because he probably knows he couldn’t beat her or Obama and he would not risk his family’s future on a fool’s errand like this one. But, if he runs, Sarah Palin’s strategy is clear. And a spirited primary with Bush might actually benefit her.