1. Run as moderate to get elected.
2. Execute a sharp right turn once in office
3. Rinse and repeat...


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To the majority of the public, this will be seen as a serious divide in the republican party which we should be more than willing to exploit.

It's deliciously divisive.

And ironically, Jeb here has only made things worse for him.

Wouldn't it make more sense if Mittens loses so Jebbie could run in 2016?

Even after Walker's win in WI I'm still more concerned about 2016 than this year, because once Obama wins, he can't run for another term, sadly......

and rehabilitating the family name and positioning himself as reasonable and moderate to run in 2016.

I don't think it's much of a gamble, either. Just as McCane was the throwaway candidate in 2008, Mittens is the throwaway candidate in 2012.

It's going to be quite the spectacle watching them try to foist some idjit as Mitten's running mate. Jeb has already tried, multiple times, to foist that role onto Rubio. But Rubio is running for his life too.

Nobody wants to be that close to Mittens. They'll probably be reduced to using death threats to coerce somebody to take on the task.

He's positioning himself as HW II.

I do wonder about the WH meetings with Obama. I dunno, they peddle an agenda that is anathema to me, but excluding the obvious, the Bushes are not stupid. They know that today's GOP isn't sustainable without Koch money in every election. It's in their best interests that Romney loses.

Should Obama win this year, Jeb will be along in 2016 and he won't have much to say about same-sex marriage and so on. Going forward, a GOP that is not socially dogmatic is one that will win more elections over the next hundred years and hideous as I find fiscal conservatism, I'm always happy to debate people on that issue.

A division along the lines of genuine policy is infinitely preferable to having ludicrous wedge issues thrown into the mix; I suspect that there are plenty in the Republican party who remember that when they go home at night. Shame on them for being too beholden to power to speak up for it.

He's betting on Romney losing and he is setting himself up to "re-create" a kinder and gentler Republican Party and be the nominee in 2016. Of course he will be nothing of the sort, but he's setting his stage now. A Romney win wouldn't help his aspirations in the least.

When and of he ever runs, he will win. And he will be deadly for the 99%.

I've heard it said that the Bushes are the most powerful family in the country.

I enjoy he wants to change the way they message but not the message.

Other than ego, what's he got to prove or accomplish? He's seen close-up what a nutcracker job being a President is...even with his dumbass brother. It's ten years out of your life where you have little privacy and in the end you get put down and ignored. He's making a nice buck in the "private sector"...comfortable in his own skin that he doesn't need this headache.

VPs from a losing ticket don't win the presidency at a later date.

If Jeb runs now as VP and The Mittster loses-which he probably will-Bush is cooked.

I have no doubt he has further ambitions. But running as VP now would be suicide for him.

third way repubs might eventually save whatever is left of the republican party after the misanthropic nincompoop tea baggers are done playing with it.

there used to be a time in this country when you could reach across the aisle for the sake of all Uhhhhmericans.

extremist partisanship wasn't always the end all, be all.

i don't play the "us vs. them" WWF version of Uhhhhmerican politics, but the tea baggers have done so much to drag our national discourse and polity into the sewer, it might take a generation for the republican party to recover once more old white people start dying off in droves.