I like Jeb a lot.
We may be experiencing a bit of Bush Overload right now, but I wouldn’t count anyone out right now, not even some of our damaged politicians, or politicians with over-used last-names, or pols with less experience than normal. The field is wide open right now, because we are in a fight with our backs to the wall, everything we believe in is on the line and will be for the next four years, or if we lose perhaps for decades to come.
Our fighters will reveal themselves over the coming seasons, and so will our leaders. They won’t be the ones jockeying for position, they will be the ones getting in the faces of our opponents, the ones who can articulate what it is we believe in, who won’t be looking to split the difference when splitting the difference means losing all we hold dear.
Most people have better things to do than to go out and do battle every day with scumbag journalists and scumbag politicians. But some people were born to it, usually flawed in some way but born to do battle. These are the people we’re looking for.
“I like Jeb a lot.”
No question that he would have been a good President had it been he who pursued the Presidency. But he didn’t, and unless he plans on changing his name, his political career is pretty much over.