After Jeb’s emotional withdrawal from his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, the spavined Bush political dynasty, now quite officially, belongs to history.  The family’s run can be said to have lasted thirty-five years, from the senior Bush’s unsuccessful 1980 pursuit of the Republican presidential nomination (as the GOP establishment’s candidate against the unelectable Ronald Reagan) until the results of the South Carolina primary rolled in.  During this time one of three Bush family members was always at the center of American political life, either as the occupant of the White House, or as every Republican consultant’s sure prediction to become its next. No more. Two members of this gracious patrician clan -- both abundantly endowed with personal virtue but painfully lacking in verbal skill or instinct for political combat -- more than sufficed. The domestic political incompetence of the senior Bush spawned the Clinton...(Read Full Article)