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Well, he does have 5 years til 2008.

But electability? Well, he won his re-election in Florida 56% to 43% (First Republican to be re-elected to the governorship, if I remember right). This AFTER Terry McAuliffe made it his mission in life to dethrone Jeb in order to send a message to the President (I.E. "We got your brother in 02, and we're gonna get you in 04"), and so sent Bill McBride wads of cash in order to support his campaign. This AFTER the Democratic establishment made "Revenge for 2000" their clarion call. This after Florida was nearly split down the middle 50-50 between Gore and Bush. After all that, Jeb won by 13 points, absolutely crushing Bill McBride.

Florida is unfortunately not a solidly conservative state, as evinced by the fact that we went for Clinton in 96, and nearly went for Gore in 2000, but this election was ROCK SOLID in favor of Jeb. The only way Jeb could carry that off was by being able to appeal to the independent voters, of which there are a lot of in Florida.

And he did this while being strongly conservative. I haven't kept up on all the issues, especially lately (Yeah, I know. I need to stop slacking off ;) ), but he seems to be even more conservative than GWB. He's also got a solid head on his shoulders, and is pretty damned impressive when he gets going. Bill McBride was positively embarassing when put up against Jeb. It's something when you listen to a man speak clearly and articulate his position, then hear another man sprinkling his response with "uh... uh ... uh" every five seconds.

Well, that's my view of it at this late hour (I REALLY need to get some sleep. Gotta get up around 6 am or so).