January 1, 2015
Run, Mitt, Run
To the surprise of no one who has been following the will-he-or-won’t-he back-and-forth of the past few weeks, it looks he will. Jeb Bush is running for president.
Okay, he’s not running; he’s just “actively exploring” running. And Napoleon was “actively exploring” invading Russia. Let us conservatives hope, then, that Jeb doesn’t meet his own Waterloo in 2016.
The real surprise is that, almost before the pixels have dried on the pundits’ computer screen, Jeb Bush has moved to the head of the pack of presidential hopefuls, leading runner-up Christie by a full ten points according to a CNN poll.
Is it too early to warn conservative Republicans of the danger of sitting out an election? Failing to heed such warnings then gave us four more years of Obama, five million legalized-by-fiat immigrants, and normalized relations with Cuba and perhaps with Iran. Failing to heed such warnings in ’16...(Read Full Article)