It must be tough being Jeb Bush. Well, as tough as it can be for the scion of a multi-generation one-percenter dynasty, anyway. But he was the good son. The one who worked hard, got good grades, kept his nose to the grindstone. He was the natural heir to the neoliberal, neo-con country club econopolitical throne. But in 1994, while he was barely losing the Florida gubernatorial campaign to the popular legend Lawton Chiles, his big brother was winning the gubernatorial race in what was becoming deep red Texas. His idiot brother. The lazy one. The perpetual fuck-up. The one who kept needing his uncles and his father's friends to bail him out of business disasters, or use his name and residency so they could buy and run a baseball team his brother would get all the credit and quite a bit of money for fronting as figurehead.
So, because of 1994, Jeb's big brother got to run for president first. And with Jeb's help, win. And prove such a disastrous failure as to ruin the Bush brand, maybe once and for all. But the American mass media are good sports. As they should be, given who owns them. And time and favorable propaganda heal all wounds. Or do they? Well, at least the state of the Republican leadership is such a sick joke that the Republican insiders are desperate for anyone or anything to save them from the sort of clown shows that were the last two Republican presidential primary campaign seasons. So, it's finally Jeb's turn! Or is it?
Clinton easily defeated every potential Republican challenger in general election matchups. She rolled up margins of 13 percentage points over Bush, 12 over Christie and Romney and 14 over Paul.
That would be Hillary Clinton, and that would be Jeb Bush, and that McClatchy-Marist poll was released yesterday. And those would be landslide numbers. How big of a landslide?
Notable: At a time when Democrats have had trouble wooing white voters, Clinton runs roughly even with the Republicans.
While the Republican brand continues to alienate all other demographics, it needs to dominate among white voters just to have a chance in national elections. But against Hillary, it has no chance. Even the latest supposed Republican savior, Jeb Bush,
consistently polls as
unable to beat Clinton even in his
home state of Florida. And gets crushed by her nationwide.
Run, Jeb, run!