Washington Post Pushes Jeb Bush for President

If establishment Republicans are that hard up for a nominee, we're obviously screwed.

From Jazz Shaw, at Hot Air, "The inevitable “draft Jeb” campaign shifts into high gear."

And don't miss Robert Stacy McCain, "Stopping the Bush Bandwagon":

Everyone in the GOP except actual GOP voters love Jeb Bush! "Top Republicans working to draft Jeb: http://t.co/FTC1AzCtq9 #Caring #Loser

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) March 30, 2014

@rsmccain @instapundit Jeb was an excellent governor and is an admirable man, but I don't hear a nation crying out as one for another Bush.

— Kevin D. Williamson (@KevinNR) March 30, 2014

Even before the 2008 campaign had ended, it became apparent to me — from the rumblings about certain aides to the McCain/Palin campaign, especially Nicolle Wallace — that Sarah Palin was being sabotaged by Bushies, so that one could perceive at that early date the stealthy moves toward a dynastic restoration via former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. As I said at the time, however, the lesson was obvious enough: “Lie down with Bushes, wake up with Democrats.” That is to say, electing a Bush to the White House is always the foreshadowing of a future Democrat victory, and therefore the urgent task of conservatives since 2008 has been to rid the GOP of its doomstruck taint of Bushism. Thus to explain my horrified reaction at this Washington Post story:

Concerned that the George Washington Bridge traffic scandal has damaged New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s political standing and alarmed by the steady rise of Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), prominent donors, conservative leaders and longtime operatives say they consider Bush the GOP’s brightest hope to win back the White House. . . .

(The reported “alarm” toward Rand Paul is ill-founded. If Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker can get re-elected in November, he will immediately emerge as the likely 2016 GOP nominee, based on his success in fighting Big Labor in an industrial Midwestern state.)

One bundler estimated that the “vast majority” of Romney’s top 100 donors would back Bush in a competitive nomination fight. “He’s the most desired candidate out there,” said another bundler, Brian Ballard, who sat on the national finance committees for Romney in 2012 and John McCain in 2008. “Everybody that I know is excited about it.” . . .

(Obviously, the idiotic big-money GOP Establishment would be “excited” to repeat the doomed campaigns of 2008 and 2012.) ...

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