The bureaucracy will never get the chance to eat him alive because the GOPe will first in the primary. He will never have the money to compete with Bush’s $100m war chest. If he ever got to the top of the polls, they would kill him with negative ads like they killed Gingrich and Santorum.
If Bush is the nominee I will vote third party. After last presidential election my best friend was visiting me from Ohio. She came to be with me for the election because I was running for County Supervisor and it was a big life moment and we always shared our big moments. She was my Maid of Honor and I was her Matron of Honor. Of course my election, which I won, was overshadowed by the disaster that was the Presidential election. The morning after, over a cup of coffee, my friend announced that she knew the only way the Republicans could win the next election...run Jeb Bush! I jokingly said with a smile that I wouldn’t vote for Bush if he were the next Messiah. My best friend, who was sitting in my home, drinking my coffee said, “That’s fitting, being your people killed our first one.” (She’s born again and I am Jewish) After shaking my head in disbelief, I asked her to apologize. She wouldn’t and she didn’t. That was the last time we ever spoke. I drove her to the airport in silence. If it weren’t for the fact that her wonderful husband was with her, I would have thrown her out of my house and told her to take a cab. My point? I lost my best friend over Jeb Bush and I feel the same way I felt that morning. Except moreso now.