Wow, now I feel even more excited about moving back to Florida.
Two sources close to Jeb Bush, including one who has spoken to the former Florida governor within the past few hours, say he is seriously considering a run for Senate now that incumbent Republican Mel Martinez has retired.
“He is receiving a lot of encouragement from both in and out of the state,” an longtime Bush adviser said tonight. “He is going to take his time and approach this very methodically.” Bush will weigh, according to this adviser, how a run would impact his family, his business, and whether the Senate would be the best platform for the causes he’d advocate — education, immigration, GOP solutions to health care and energy.
I like Jeb, and always thought it a bit of a shame that he would never get to run for POTUS (even if W didn’t FUBAR the Bush name the press/Democrats would scream bloody murder if a third Bush ran for POTUS). Plus if he did make it into the Senate, which I’m confident he can do either by Crist appointing him to Martinez’s seat or by vote, it would be fun to stick it to the Left by putting a Bush in the Senate. I like it. Go Jeb go!
