GHWBush Sobs at Jeb's Farewell

George Bush 41 is correct in that his son Jeb is a class act who did not get depressed when he was beaten by a populist fraud named Walkin' Lawton Chiles in Florida through lots of the usual Dem chicanery.

But his sobs are for what might have been. Jeb was supposed to be Guv of Florida and then the timetable had it that he would run for prez in 2000. Instead, his loss and GWB's win in Texas in '96 put George rather than Jeb in the Bush dynastic cockpit.

The Bush family and its galaxy of supporters all believed that Jeb was the real political talent in the next generation and that GWB had a tendency to get into jams. Jams that he had to be extricated from through the good services of James Baker, Robert Gates, et al......

The most hilarious part of the whole event is that the cheating by Florida Dems in '94 led to the karmic comeupance of 2000 when the Dems, because of Janet the Ogress's expulsion of Elian Gonzalez back to the worker's paradise, paid the price of overweening arrogance and though they tried mightily to cheat their way into victory, Al Bore just lost by 537 votes.

So the joke is on those cheatin' Dems, but the country may have also lost an absolutely first-class political leader when Jeb's presidential ambitions were postponed by that loss in '94.

And maybe that is why GHWB was crying up in Tallahassee.