you fault t-paw and huckabee for failing to grow the gop during their time as governor. well, the fl gop experienced great growth under jeb. therefore. should jeb deserve consideration as the smart bush?
On those grounds, he could. But I would not support him for President.
I’d give T-Paw a break being in MN, which has been trending GOP but is still tough, that the GOP got blasted there in 2006 and 2008 is not something I think you could blame him for, in national rat landslide years the low hanging fruit is gonna fall. Huck had no excuse coming from an increasingly conservative southern state for the embarrassingly pitiful condition of Arkansas Republicans.
As for Jeb, if Lawton Chiles hadn’t convinced senile voters that Jeb would somehow steal their social security he’d have won in 94 and almost certainly been President instead of George and probably would done at least slightly better (would be hard not to).
I’ll give him his props for running the Florida GOP well but he’s still a shamnesty supporting neocon who wouldn’t make a very good President.
A Bush is the absolute last person to consider for 2016. Even if the Bush name wasn’t mud, the monarchy thing, I know Dowager Queen Hilly is running but could you imagine the last THREE Republican Presidents being a New England bred RINO and his 2 sons? That’s insane.
As Auho2republican has said if his name was Jeb Smith he’d have been the nominee in either 2008 or 2012. Too bad for him it’s not.