Should former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush have run in 2012? Here’s a roundup.
FOOTNOTE; I’ve long contended that Jeb Bush could have appeal to independent voters but it is true that in this election cycle where George W. Bush polls lowest among surviving Presidents Jeb would have some problems. Additionally, Tea Party members and conservative talkers would be unlikely to just have discarded their views and gone along with Jeb Bush, who is not always on the same wavelength with them, particularly on the idea that consensus and compromise are signs of weakness and not goals or political virtues.
More likely 2016.
But that always assumed Mitt Romney would lose.
And it’s looking brighter and brighter for Romney and gloomier for Obama and the Democrats.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.