I don’t know which is worse: Peggy trying to stay relevant, or her sad misinformation about the Dauphin Bush not being inevitable?
She is actually saying the exact opposite of that: that a Bush nomination is NOT inevitable, and that the field is wide open.
On C-Span last nite there was a CPAC discussion about ObamaEd, a.k.a. “Common Core.” The speakers asserted that - Republican or Democrat - parents are learning about the scam, the gutting of parental, local and state control, which is the essence of ObamaEd. That awareness at the grass roots level means that all politicians are hearing it, at all levels. Therefore the danger Rotten Core represents politically is not that the Republicans will run against it and fail, it is that the only one Republican who supports it will benefit from the fratricide of all the others, who do not. And then, in the General, that Republican will face a Democrat who doesn’t have any fingerprints on CC and who will run to “the right,” in terms of this issue, of that Republican. And the Democrat will win.You are saying that Bush will achieve that dubious distinction, being the winner of the primary because all the others - and a majority of Republican voters - hate his CC position too much. But I say that Jeb is already overextended and doomed because of that issue.
He is doomed because he - like his father before him - has made it his mission to be “the education president.” And “No Child Left Behind” is a bitter legacy of his older brother’s administration as well. So Bush will be promoting federal ed at the very moment that not only the Republican Party but the entire country will be receptive to the slogan "Abolish the DoE.” Even if Jeb himself hadn’t voluntarily put himself in that spot, 41 and 43 have put that imprint on the Bush name, and that makes it a toxic brand.
Another aspect of the problem is his Mexicaphilia. And because he is married to a Mexican, that again is part of his identity and nothing he could finesse even if he wanted to.
I expect Bush to spend a lot of money - and flop miserably.
The blowback on Common Core would be severe enough by itself; and there will be blowback from the idea of a third Bush presidency.Now that I’ve seen the whole article in dead-tree format, Noonan make an even stronger case - that Jeb, like Obama, is too good for America. And that ain’t gonna play in Peoria. Not in a Republican primary. Not following Obama.
Jeb will have all the money that will do any good, to spend in the Republican campaign. It won’t be enough.