Bush will have an enormous war chest, and the significance of that can’t be overstated. For as long as he’s a candidate, Walker figures to be playing catch-up on this front. But Bush’s poll numbers indicate that the GOP faithful are just as eager for an alternative as they were with Romney four years ago. Romney caught a break because all of those alternatives ended up being spectacularly unviable. Bush may not be so lucky."
“Bush has an enormous war chest” and all the rest of the candidates share in a smaller purse. Bush can afford to essentially sit on the sidelines and dump truckloads of drek on the others in the early primaries until they are all dropped or pushed out and then sweep the later primaries as the only candidate that hasn’t been chopped into little pieces. In that he will have enormous help from the Democrats who will know their candidate before the second primaries, even if it isn’t obvious to non Democrats, and will vote in the Republican Primaries, either openly as Democrats in the open contests or by becoming Republicans-for-a-day to vote in the closed ones.