THREE MARTINI LUNCH: DECEMBER 16, 2014

National Review's Jim Geraghty joins host Greg Corombos. Today's topics: Jeb Bush "explores" a presidential run in 2016, the Taliban stage a horrific attack at a Pakistani school, and a Harvard law student defends the call to postpone final exams because students are distraught over the grand jury decisions in Ferguson and NYC.



Jeb Bush: I'm in

Bush, Bush, Dole, Bush, Bush, McCain, Romney … Bush?

As with all major political developments, foreign and domestic, my thoughts turn to one question: What does this mean for Romney 2016?

As a result of these conversations and thoughtful consideration of the kind of strong leadership I think America needs, I have decided to actively explore the possibility of running for President of the United States.

In January, I also plan to establish a Leadership PAC that will help me facilitate conversations with citizens across America to discuss the most critical challenges facing our exceptional nation. The PAC's purpose will be to support leaders, ideas and policies that will expand opportunity and prosperity for all Americans.

In the coming months, I hope to visit with many of you and have a conversation about restoring the promise of America.

Today, my friends, David Frum speaks for all Republicans:

In this magnificent land of opportunity, anyone can aspire to the presidency, provided only that an immediate relative had the job already.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 16, 2014

Yep, although the most likely match-up in 2016 is even more incestuous than that. Remember, Bill Clinton has become good friends with the Bushes, to the point where Dubya now kids that he's a "brother from another mother" and that Hillary is his "sister-in-law." Another Bush/Clinton race wouldn't be a contest between two dynastic families. It would, effectively, be an intramural contest within one...

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