JEB! Plutocrat for all seasons?

As the Republican Party is on the verge of becoming a de facto Jacobite "Party of Bush," can the Crown Prince play the family's old wedge tricks once again and eventually fire up a gullible GOP base like his brother did, and like he has already fired up the establishment donor class and media?

(Washington Post) - Jeb Bush’s nascent presidential campaign has already won over many of the big-dollar donors and GOP elites. What he needs to prove now is that he can win over the crowds.

Until visits to South Carolina and other early states this month, the former Florida governor hadn’t been on the campaign trail for himself in 13 years. He hadn’t sold himself to the deeply conservative, tea party-inspired crowds that have emerged as a driving Republican force in the Obama era. He’d never snapped so many “selfies” with admirers.

And he admits his delivery is a work in progress. “I’m learning along the way how to get better,” he told reporters in South Carolina this week. Read more.