The Bush Trilogy

The third movie in any trilogy is always the best, right?  Well there used to be semi-defined rules, but now that most of yesteryear's trilogies have become quadrilogies, hexalogies, sextologies, septologies, and so on as the rules have changed somewhat.  Before I get any more off topic (or make up any other questionable titles for movie series), the trilogy I refer to is one that we may soon see played out by the Bush family.  The potential third Bush president I'm speaking of is Florida's own former governor John Ellis Bush (otherwise known as Jeb). 

George W. started out as a pretty well liked, albeit narrowly elected (or appointed depending on your viewpoint), president who earned a lot of points from the electorate after his response to the 9/11 attacks and the U.S.'s widely supported incursion into Afghanistan.  Of course he then got us into the blunder known as Iraq and it all went downhill from there.  The last 6 years of George W.'s presidency marked the start of a sharp uptick in partisanship and national division that still infects the U.S. to this day.   I was definitely one of his biggest critics, but always tried to keep it about issues and not emotions.  This morning Jeb Bush made the rounds on nearly all of the major weekly Sunday morning news programs.   His actions, while in the guise of promoting a new book on immigration, are seen by many as a precursor to a 2016 presidential run.

His views, and actions in Florida as governor, seem to much more closely resemble true compassionate conservatism than his brother's ever did in word or deed.  Additionally, he has a strong relationship with the Hispanic community and some good ideas on solving the immigration issue which the Republicans desperately need right now.  My fear is that many potential voters will equate Jeb with his brother and father without even looking at him as individual.  I'm not completely sold on him as my candidate of choice at this point either due to his recent move slightly more rightward as indicated in his newest book.  Overall, I do like what I've heard on many of his views so far and would challenge voters to at least take a good, hard look at him prior to the 2016 election cycle.