Allahpundit, on Jeb Bush’s current strategy – and latest argument against Marco Rubio:
If that analogy is true, that Rubio is Obama and Bush is Hillary, it … doesn’t bode well for Jeb given how 2008 turned out for Clinton. The last time a national electorate was given a choice between a charismatic untested young pol who’s great in front of an audience and a more experienced pol whose main credential was her last name, with both in agreement on 99 percent of policy, they opted for the more dynamic candidate. Jeb’s theory is that Republicans, having learned a lesson from the Hopenchange disaster, will choose more wisely than Democrats did. But I don’t know. There are worse insults in politics than being compared to a guy who crushed the other party twice in winning the presidency.
Not taking sides – and I wouldn’t quite call 2012 us being ‘crushed;’ our down-ticket losses were frankly minimal – but… nope, still not taking sides. I will note that Wednesday’s debate should prove to be a lively time. Certainly it won’t be one of the snoozefests that the Democrats keep promising, then grimly delivering…
I’ll take sides ..
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Hillary did a fantastic job of recognizing that she can’t take on a young, charismatic upstart .. and is, therefore, surrounded by an old charismatic upstart (feel the Bern) and a young irish-named guy who suffers from a birth defect of not having *any* charisma..
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Oh, you meant Bush 3.0 v Rubio.
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.. I’ll just say that if the Bush family were Microsoft, version 3.0 is when the product finally gets decent and not user-hostile…
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I’m perfectly happy to have Bush and Rubio shipping at each other.
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Best case, they mortally wound each other’s campaigns.
Worst case, they’re spending their time, energy, and money attacking each other instead of someone I might not fully detest.
Real World, Bush is terrified that the GOPe might abandon ship and consolidate behind Rubio. Rubio needs that to happen sooner than later to have a shot (and he’s already publicly stated that the Senate is beneath him, do that bridge is well and truly burnt).