Seriously. Well, not impossibly. Perhaps. Weirder things may have happened*.
Yup, Jeb Bush is apparently considering running for Mel Martinez’s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat. I imagine Jeb would win handily. These days I think people forget that Jeb was the Bush who was supposed to be President. One of the hinge moments in recent American political history is election night 1994** when George W won the Texas gubernatorial race and Jeb lost his race to become governor of Florida. By just 63,000 votes. If memory serves, Bill Minutaglio writes in First Son (still, in my view, the best book about Dubya’s pre-White House life) that W was furious that Poppy and Barbara Bush were more saddened by Jeb’s defeat than elated by W’s victory. “Why can’t you be happy for me for once” snapped W (or words to that effect). Perhaps his parents could see what the future might hold?
Because there’s not too much doubt, I think, that Jeb, not George, would have been The Guy, had they both won in 1994.
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