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Human Events
Jeb Bush's
hurdles
By: George Will
1/2/2015
WASHINGTON — In 1968, a singularly traumatic year — assassinations,
urban riots, 16,899 Americans killed in Vietnam — Vice President Hubert
Humphrey, the ebullient Minnesotan, said his presidential campaign was
about “the politics of joy.” This was considered infelicitous.
He was, however, right to insist that, whatever America’s vicissitudes,
the nation’s premises explain its trajectory and validate cheerfulness.
Similarly, after a 40-year-old Arizonan decided to try politics as a
candidate for the Phoenix city council in 1949, he said: “It ain’t for
life and it might be fun.” Barry Goldwater was right: Politics is
supposed to be fun, and done right it is.
So Jeb Bush was pitch perfect when he said he would only seek the 2016
Republican presidential nomination if he could do it “joyfully.” At
this moment of some national troubles and much national hypochondria,
voters need reminding that their country, with its many advantages, can
get better by choosing to do so — by choosing better policies.
Bush was, however, inscrutable when he recently mused about the
possibility of a presidential campaign that would “lose the primary to
win the general.” This sounds like a baseball strategy that requires
stealing first base. There is a reason this has not been tried: the
rules of the game...
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