Jeb Bush is right about 2016
Uncannily orients himself toward camera lights like invasive kudzu relentlessly growing toward the sun?
If you’re not going to be the conservative pick, there’s no percentage in acting like it.
t’s become standard practice for presidential candidates to run away from the governing establishments of their parties. So it was a little odd this week to see the latest could-be candidate with the last name of Bush (you can’t get more establishment than that) sucking up to an audience of business execs and reporters at the Four Seasons in Georgetown (OK, maybe you can). It was like Jeb was readying to run for the presidency of Congressional Country Club instead.
Yes, before you turn around and try to refute this, you are correct. Jeb wants to become president of open-borders money-is-all (always inching to the Left two steps behind the Democrats) 'Conservative Inc.'
In case you missed it, Bush gave a speech extolling the virtues of pragmatism and practicality, which are more often insults in Republican politics these days, and said that a less extremist candidate has to be willing to “lose the primary to win the general.” His pitch strikes a lot of political analysts as hopeful bordering on naive — the kind of self-congratulatory thing you say just before you become the next Fred Thompson.
To me, it says something different, which is that whether or not he has the skill or the drive to mount a serious challenge, Jeb remains the shrewdest political strategist in the family. ...
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