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Jeb Bush and Sarah Palin speak, rumours start
WASHINGTON – What does it take to set off feverish speculation among Republicans about possible late-entering presidential candidates? If you’re Sarah Palin or Jeb Bush, all you have to do is open your mouth.
Palin announced in October she wasn’t running for president. Bush has been saying it for two years. But both prominent Republicans are back in the headlines with some timely thoughts on American politics. Palin, likely just being mischievousness, told Fox News it wasn’t too late for someone to get into the Republican contest. More than that, the former Alaska governor admitted she wasn’t yet impressed enough with any of the current gang of seven candidates to make an endorsement.
“You know, it’s not too late for folks to jump in. I don’t know, who knows what will happen in the future,” Palin mused. “You know, my endorsement is going to be with sincerity and enthusiasm and I’m just not there yet with the field as it stands.”
Does this mean Palin is reconsidering her decision. There’s no sign one way or the other that she is taking another look. But it’s a measure of the skepticism about the Republican slate – or a measure of the media’s boredom with it – that Palin’s comment generated dozens of headlines raising the possibility.
Ditto for Jeb Bush, who’s out with an op-ed piece in today’s Wall Street Journal on the threat leaders in Washington pose to capitalism and economic freedom. Again, there is nothing – other than the timing of the piece, just ahead of the Iowa caucuses – to suggest Bush might be giving second thought to a late ‘for the sake of the party’ campaign in 2012.
It’s long been assumed that Bush, if he was to run for president, would wait until 2016. With good reason. If Rick Perry has suffered from the fact that he shares only a title – Texas governor – with George W. Bush, then it’s a safe bet Jeb would suffer from having the same last name. For many Americans, not just Democrats, it’s likely still too soon to contemplate another Bush in the White House.
But that won’t stop anyone from speculating.
http://blogs.canada.com/2011/12/20/jeb-bush-and-sarah-palin-speak-rumours-start/
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