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The Blog for Sunday, November 07, 2004

Painful to Read

    From today's Houston Chronicle:
    A loss to Sen. John Kerry would have decreased the "marketability for the Bush name" for future aspirants such as Jeb, the 51-year-old governor of Florida, [author Kevin] Phillips said.

    Jeb Bush has said numerous times of late that he would not run for president in 2008. But he is unquestionably the Bush clan member most likely to next carry the torch, and Florida political observers believe he has not completely ruled it out.

    "My guess is that Jeb would take a stab at it next time out," said Susan McManus, a political scientist at the University of South Florida. "He certainly would never say that, but there is a lot of talk here about a Senate or presidential run."

    Jeb Bush is young, McManus said, and "is very much his own man." He could bide his time until he thought the moment was right before trying to be the third Bush to occupy the White House.

    His biggest obstacle, ironically, may be his last name.

    It could just be, even in the minds of ardent Bush family supporters, that the public is suffering a measure of "Bush fatigue."

    Matt Simmons, a Houston investment banker who was one of the president's chief energy policy advisers, said it "probably is in everybody's best interests for the time being if Jeb lays low."

    "I was relieved to hear him say he has no intention of running for president," said Simmons, the head of Simmons and Co. International.

    "It hurts the Bush family. It's a fabulous family of really good people. If Jeb Bush ran now, there would be an anti-Bush groundswell. There is ample time for other Bushes to do things in politics."

    If Jeb Bush does decide not to seek the presidency, there is no dearth of remaining Bushes in the next generation who could become an up-and-coming star who could carry on the dynasty.
    "'Dynasty' isn't what Bushes would call it".

5:54 PM

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