‘I think he’ll be a great President’

“If there’s anybody more powerful in my family than my mother, I don’t know who it is”, Bush said.

In 2013, she told NBC’s Matt Lauer: “There are other people out there that are very qualified and we’ve had enough Bushes”. “When push comes to shove, people are going realize Jeb has real solutions, rather than talking about how popular they are or how great they are”, she says. In an alternate universe where Trump and Rubio didn’t run, this is the stage in the race where Bush is rolling out big Senate endorsements like McCain to try to squash Scott Walker among center-right voters.

Ted Cruz, R-Texas listens on during the Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas.

“I’ve given it a lot of thought”, he said, adding that he was reading Jon Meacham’s book about “my dad” – “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush”.

Jeb Bush, after speaking at an employee town hall at Timberland headquarters in Stratham, New Hampshire, stopped at the company store to purchase a navy sweater and a pair of boots.

“I don’t think he’s a smart person, honestly”, Trump said. According to The New York Times, George W. may show up in time to help in SC.

HEWITT: Do you think that is Jeb Bush, Governor Bush’s theory, we are going down, let’s take everyone with us? And you noted, and many people have remarked, that the Mike Murphy-run superPAC, which is a Jeb Bush supporting superPAC, has dumped millions against you. As of late, he’s taken to calling his mother his “favorite Bush”. This cognitive dissonance could only be made possible by years of self-delusion among Republican consultants and opinion-makers about the GOP base’s sentiment toward the George W. Bush foreign policy legacy.

“I’m sure my brother is going to be campaigning by my side, all that stuff is going to happen”, he said. “People, there are people who think it’s a little odd for a third Bush to be president of the United States”.

“I know you guys love the Bush folklore”.