Republican elites felled by horrible new sickness: Jeb Bush fever! - By Joan Walsh

[DonViejo]

Rich donors are getting ready to draft another Bush and thumb their noses at the party’s far-right base. Good luck!

JOAN WALSH

Can the Republican Party base catch Jeb Bush fever? They may have no choice. According to the Washington Post’s Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, GOP donors panicked over Gov. Chris Christie’s implosion are going all out to draft the long-ago Florida governor to run for president in 2016.

Jeb Bush is certainly tanned and rested, if not ready: He left the governor’s office in 2006, and has done little since then besides work for disgraced and defunct Lehman Brothers and write a book that reversed his once progressive stance on immigration reform. Rucker and Costa quote a former Mitt Romney bundler saying the “vast majority” of Romney’s top 100 donors would like to see a Bush run.

“He’s the most desired candidate out there,” said Brian Ballard, a member of the Romney 2012 and McCain 2008 national finance committees. “Everybody that I know is excited about it.”

So to summarize: Bush hasn’t run for office for in 14 years, his wife Columba is known to be unenthusiastic about a presidential run, his own mother doesn’t think he should do it, and in a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, 50 percent of registered voters say they “definitely would not” vote for him – but the wise men of the party want to draft him anyway. This should all work out fine.

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[madaboutharry]

1. Jeb Bush was one of the original

signatories and supporters of PNAC along with co-founder William Krystol and fellow right wing nut Donald Rumsfield.

If Jeb Bush is ever elected president its going to be 2000 all over again. It will be like a bad acid trip with a flash back of all the same creeps who screwed up the country the last time.

[3catwoman3]

2. More like Jeb Bush...

...nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

[Enthusiast]

3. There are few things more repulsive than a Bush.

Maybe a Christie.