It seems like Jeb! Bush is being overly literal about his need to bail out his own presidential campaign: He's launching a
"Jeb Can Fix It" tour in another attempt to reset his flailing campaign. You're supposed to think that the "It" Jeb Can Fix is the problems facing our nation—or as a campaign staffer put it, a "rejection of the 'competing pessimisms' created in the (President Barack) Obama era in favor of leadership that solves problems"—but it's going to be hard not to think of the Jeb Bush campaign as the problem Bush is currently trying to solve.
In his kickoff speech, Bush will work on oh-so-subtly presenting Marco Rubio as the Republican Barack Obama:
"The challenges we face as a nation are too great to roll the dice on another presidential experiment,"Bush plans to say, according to excerpts of his speech released by his campaign. "To trust the rhetoric of reform over a record of reform."
In addition to a speech talking about what an amazing and totally conservative governor of Florida he was and visits to South Carolina and New Hampshire, Bush is also:
... releasing his e-book "Reply All," an exhaustive anthology of hundreds of self-selected e-mails he sent and received as governor.
I'm sure that millions of people who are not already committed Bush supporters or Bush opponents looking for dirt will sit right down and read hundreds of pages of Jeb Bush's decade-old emails.
Bush has gotten one piece of legitimate, if not exactly enormous, good news: Marco Rubio's former chief of staff, soon-to-be Florida House Speaker Richard Corcoran, is endorsing Bush. But even so, this problem-solving former governor's own poor performance has created him a big problem to solve if he's going to have a shot at his party's presidential nomination. Oh, and there's another debate coming up on November 10, and we know how well he does at those.