JEB! 2016: A circus of royal conceit is now all but certain (maybe)

According to insiders, the Crown Prince John Ellis Bush has all but made up his mind to take on the Hildabeast, and try to steal or buy the White House in 2016.  CNBC, the "Wall Street for Dummies" financial network, reports "all signs point to Jeb Bush prepping for 2016 presidential run."  The Crown Prince is "said to be deep in preparation on issues beyond his traditional areas of focus" like educational cronyism and kleptocracy, and promotion of peonage labor. While it's anybody's guess what all of those issues are, one thing most certainly on the agenda would have to be how to steer the US into a wider middle eastern war, back in Iraq in force, and a confrontation with Iran.  One CNBC source said the Crown Prince "spoke passionately on foreign policy and economics and sounded very much like someone who plans to mount a presidential campaign."  Other sources confide that, barring a late change of heart, JEB! is almost certain to run. Apparently his father, King George I HW Bush strongly encouraged the Crown Prince to mount a 2016 Restoration pretense at a recent gathering of the royal family at the summer palace in Kennebunkport, ME

Bush royalists, including the Crown Prince, are reportedly determined, at any cost, to stop Rand Paul or any libertarian, or tea party candidate, from seriously challenging for the Party of Bush nomination, and think "Jersey Style" Chris "doughnut" Christie is an unworthy Party of Bush choice to pulverize the unruly base, and represent the Republican element of the ruling US plutocracy against the Clintons.  Likewise, they believe Wall Street Willard had his chance in 2012, and they intend to hold him to his "gentleman's agreement" not to challenge a Bush royal option on 2016.

All this is going on while the Crown Prince flagrantly continues to feed friendly media some details about his ongoing murky and questionable business activities in private equity and foreign investment.  JEB!'s private equity firm, Britton Hill Holdings, recently raised at least $66.4 million from domestic and foreign investors. That includes several million this past April from a group that included a privately owned Chinese conglomerate.  Bush's business deals are made largely out of the regulatory spotlight, and because they are privately held enterprises disclosure laws require only basic information; public documents offer few details about their exact nature.

Such ongoing business activity so close to reentering politics will open the Crown Prince up to obvious attack, but if JEB! has indeed already decided to run (and all this media buildup is not some sort of huge diversionary smokescreen) then he will run with a level of conceit rivaling a Goebbels' big lie strategy.  It is true that any Bush cannot run from the entire family's legendary legacy of shady and dubious crony business associations, so JEB! seems poised to embrace such a legacy and rub the country's nose in it.  This will certainly shape he and Rove's strategy of attack against the Clintons, which will highlight their opponents' own questionable business associations and money making practices.

A "beggar thy opponent" campaign where Bush's only rationale for his candidacy would be "we are both crooks, and frauds, but at least I will (sort of) admit it" can't help but make for an arresting and bizarre political circus and a delicious media bonanza, but it will be relentlessly depressing stuff for any voter actually interested in the welfare and future of the United States. Look for a JEB! vs. Hilldog matchup to promote at least one high profile alternative candidate, with the capacity to siphon off at least 10-15 percent of the popular vote.

CNBC: All signs point to Jeb Bush prepping for 2016 presidential run

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