I can’t believe that the GOPe is stupid/delusional/disconnected/misguided/out of touch/idiotic enough to try to run another Bush this generation. Instant. Disaster.
They’ll probably prove me wrong though.
If you are a conservative, the GOPe hates your guts.
"It's over, George HW Bush will be the GOP nominee in 1980"
Jeb is Next In Line. The Republican Party does not want to win the Presidency. It wants to reward its GOPe stalwarts with the Republican Nomination. That is the epitome of Republican approval. But Republican Establishment types generally do not want to be President any more than GOPe wants a Republican President. Bush Sr. was president despite anything he could do to throw that election. The voters thought he was Reagan redux. Junior only seemed to actually want the job when he saw that he might just squeak through. The rest since Ford- arguably took dives.