The mainstream media have decided that Jeb Bush is going to be the Republican nominee, and have deployed the now-familiar “he was a bully in high school” story, Jeb Bush edition.  Deploying a lot of investigative resources, the long article by Michael Kranish manages to come up with pretty thin gruel, but it is enough to reinforce the left’s tropes that Republicans are elites (he attended Phillips Academy, Andover), hypocrites (he smoked pot! And everybody knows Republicans are prudes) and anti-gay (one presumes) bullies. That President Obama also attended an elite prep school and smoked pot matter not at all.  As for bullying, who cares? Nobody even bothered to look. Come to think of it, we don’t know much at all about President Obama’s time at Honolulu’s elite Punahou School (beyond the Choom Gang – that was in the yearbook, after all), or at Occidental or Columbia. But hey, everyone knows Democrats were saints when they were...(Read Full Post)