Well, when he says, "I'm not going to change who I am," I'm at least interpreting that declarative as his decision against running for the GOP nomination as "Caitlyn Bush".....
.....and I think I can endorse that much of his candidacy, at least.
As to the rest....well, who is Jeb Bush, really, besides an extraordinarily obtuse toxic-name-dropper who harbors the steadfast belief that what America needs more than anything else is a president whose face is migraine-inducingly too small for his head?:
Jeb Bush is ready....
....to launch a Republican presidential bid months in the making on Monday by asserting his commitment to the "most vulnerable in our society," an approach targeting the broader American electorate even as he faces questions about his policies from conservatives in his own party.
Because what the GOP base just can't get enough of is another heapin' helpin' of "compassionate conservatism".
Six months after he got the 2016 campaign started by saying he was considering a bid, the 62-year-old former Florida governor will formally enter the race with a speech and rally near his south Florida home at Miami Dade University, an institution selected because it serves a large and diverse student body that's symbolic of the nation he seeks to lead.
That nation just doesn't happen to be the one whose presidency he will be seeking.
"My core beliefs start with the premise that the most vulnerable in our society should be in the front of the line and not the back," Bush says in a video featuring women, minorities and a disabled child to be aired at the event before his Monday afternoon announcement speech. "What we need is new leadership that takes conservative principles and applies them so that people can rise up."
Well, yeah, Jeb, but your "core beliefs" have been "evolving" for years. As governor of Florida you started out as a tax- and budget-cutter, but wound up allowing State spending to rise over fifty percent during your eight-year tenure. Before that you co-authored a book decrying and warning about American cultural decay and just last week as much as said that you no longer have any problem with unwed motherhood and the fornication and adultery from which it springs.
You're the James Stockdale of the twenty-first century.
At least, on most issues. The beliefs of yours that do seem to be genuinely core - COMMON Core, to be more precise, and border-erasure amnesty - are ones that the base of the party whose votes you need to secure a general election run loathes with as fiery a passion as they do a fifth Bush candidacy and third Bush presidency.
Jeb Bush is, to sum up, running in the wrong party for the presidency of the wrong country.
He is, in a phrase, a twenty-first century New Democrat.
No wonder he and Hillary get along so well.
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