HIS PARTY NEEDS HIM:

Jeb: I am considering Senate run (CAROL E. LEE & JONATHAN MARTIN, 12/2/08, Politico)

A source close to Bush said he'll be thoughtful and methodical about the decision-making process. He will consider the impact a race would have on his family and his business and whether or not the U.S. Senate is the best forum from which to continue his advocacy for the issues on which he’s focused, such as education, immigration, and GOP solutions to health care reform.

In an interview with Politico immediately after November’s election, the former governor said the Republican Party should take four primary steps to regain favor with voters: show no tolerance for corruption, practice what it preaches about limiting the scope of government (“There should not be such a thing as a big-government Republican”), stand for working families and small business, and embrace reform.

Bush said conservatives should “do the math of the new demographics of the United States,” explaining that the Republican Party “can’t be anti-Hispanic, anti-young person, anti many things and be surprised when we don’t win elections.”

The campaign would be a good forum, the Senate a bad one. He should run in order to prepare his '12 presidential.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 3, 2008 7:30 AM