JEB!'s 'Shock and Awe' Didn't Clear the GOP Decks for 2016

I don't have to "shock and awe" anybody (except when I start
bombing Iran). I just have to show up and say, "I'm your
nominee." I'm a Bush after all....Another slice into the trees! 

(Sunshine State News) - When he announced he was exploring a presidential bid at the end of last year and then launched the Right to Rise [aka Rule] PAC to help his 2016 ambitions, the national media dubbed former Gov. Jeb Bush’s, R-Fla., start as a “shock and awe” effort to drive out potential primary rivals.

But even with buzz that Bush could bring in $100 million by the end of May, an unheard of haul for a Republican presidential primary, there are increasing signs that his “shock and awe” effort did not clear the decks, even as the likes of former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., and former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who announced last week that he wasn’t running, stayed out of the contest.

Plenty of candidates have entered the Republican primaries regardless of Bush looming over the race and some of them cover important turf.  Read more.