Boehner still peddling the Crown Prince amid royal road-show conceit

Yes, John Boehner, that blubbering mouthpiece for Tory GOP elites, is still making his pathetic Sunday morning talk show case for a third Bush presidency, telling George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week" that his efforts may be moving the Crown Prince towards running. Boehner simply thinks JEB! would make a great president. And he says this without any laughter (or tears).

Meanwhile JEB! is doubling down on Common Core cronyism and open borders for peonage labor while stumping for GOP senatorial candidates, and causing them to walk back his frank talk for themselves.  Slate opinion writer Jamelle Bouie is skeptical about JEB!'s ability to do what it takes to be president.  "Republican elites want a champion.  But in Jeb Bush, they don't have a fighter," he says.

What Tory elites do have in JEB! is a champion of their interests, in fact the quintessential champion. What they also have is a royal pretender who wants them to deliver the office to him without him having to do it for himself.  Jeb is not a fighter, he is an heir presumptive.  A "Bonnie Prince Jebbie" who wants to run "joyfully" and on his own terms.  His efforts to regain the American throne for his dynasty will wind up being as successful as the vainglorious Charles Edward Stuart's efforts were for his own dynasty, with the GOP elites playing the part of Scottish Highlanders, and Boehner his weeping Flora MacDonald.

O'er the sea, Jebbie
O'er the sea to Skye