Any pundit that claims that Jeb Bush issuing a statement that he’s now studying whether to throw his hat in the ring for the GOP nomination for the White House deserves to be met with nothing but scorn and derision.

Bush’s announcement doesn’t change anything. More precisely, it doesn’t change fact that he’s still studying the idea of running. He hasn’t officially declared. He hasn’t somehow upset the order of things in the GOP side of who might or might not run.

He was always a name out there who might run. This doesn’t change any of that.

Substantively, he might be better than most of the other plausible contenders on the GOP side, but that’s like saying that week old moldy leftovers are better than month old leftovers. They’re still awful and not good for you.

Pundits might think that this will somehow flush out other pretenders/contenders to throw their hat in the ring officially, but we still haven’t seen anyone do that. Sure, it’s likely Jeb runs, or that Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Chris Christie are likely to run, but that’s not any change since last week.