re: #75 Dark_Falcon

George the Elder never attracted the sheer level of anger and sometimes outright derangement that was directed at his son, nor did he suffer a failure as bad as the 2008 real estate collapse and the major recession that followed.

Frankly, the Bush family won’t be able to win on the national stage again until America has a few years that most people do not regard as ‘crisis years’.

Sure but I think you are forgetting that a lot of conservatives especially resented him for going back on the no new taxes. I don’t know. I just don’t see Bush’s name being a total dealbreaker. I do see where you’re coming form but I think you’re understating the amount of heat Bush I had. Frankly I think what allowed GWB to succeed where his father failed was that he was able to come off as an every man and more connected to the average American. GWB is more Clinton in style than he his own father as weird as that sounds. But then again that’s something that could work against Jeb since Jeb like his father seems more removed from the average American.