http://www.nationalreview.com/node/423457/print Why Jeb?
There is no obvious case for Bush III.
By Kevin D. Williamson — September 3, 2015
If the 2016 presidential election ends up a contest between 1992’s surnames — Bush vs. Clinton — we will have failed in some way as a republic.
The case for Jeb Bush is not exactly clear, though he enjoys an advantage vis-à-vis Mrs. Clinton in that the case against Herself is as clear as can be: She’s inept and dishonest.
Bush was a good governor of Florida — a long time ago, politically speaking. Things were different then: His time as governor coincided with a real-estate bubble that relieved him and other Florida leaders of the need to make a great many pressing financial decisions, and larger decisions about the structure of government.
In that, he very much resembles the woman against whom he presumably would be running: The Democratic heiress-apparent traffics remorselessly in Nineties nostalgia, recalling those halcyon days when a decade or so of private-sector investment in information technology suddenly collided with this new thing called the web, producing a great explosion of wonder and money. We Generation Xers are an inconsolable bunch of complainers, but if there was a better year in American history to be finishing college than 1996, I do not know what it was. But like the present-day Chinese economy of angst and lore, the American dot-com boom was a combination of genuine economic activity and bubblicious, politics-driven delusion. Indeed, it is a wonder that there wasn’t a tulip-bulb startup with a trillion-dollar valuation.
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