This has been going around certain still-bitter establishment circles of late—the notion that if only America's Worst President, George W. Bush, would come stump for his floundering dumber brother Jeb, the game would be changed.
“The game changer is: Will 43 engage?” Katon Dawson, a former chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, said in an interview about the former president, who was the nation's 43rd commander-in-chief. “If 43 engages, it will matter for his brother, but, really, it will matter for the entire team.”
One professed reason for doing such a thing is so that George W. Bush can take on Donald Trump on his brother’s behalf, which is a slap fight I think we would all pay good money to see. But the enthusiasm for the idea of calling Dubya’s name three times and summoning him back to this plane of existence seems to be a good proxy measure for general dumbness, as evidenced by mentions of it on Fox & Friends.
“A lot of people say, you know, your brother also has a lot of popularity: Like Bill Clinton has with Democrats, your brother has it with Republicans,” Fox & Friends' Brian Kilmeade told Jeb Bush on Tuesday, as the former governor nodded in agreement. “If he could tell your story as well as you can, if not better, is that something you are considering?”
Yes it is, according to Jeb. (I'm not sure if he was aware of the implicit insult involved in suggesting that he might need his brother to better explain his own ideas to people, since Jeb has been doing such a piss-poor job of it. Probably not.) But he says he is at least considering such a thing, which tells you two things. One, that he may indeed be that desperate. And two, that he is aware that he needs, at the very least, the votes of that endangered set of Republicans who still think his brother did a bang-up job and that America should give George’s plan for war and global recession a second go.
Don't keep us in suspense, Jeb. If you're going to pry George from his easel and prop him up on the campaign trail, you don’t have that much longer to do it.