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You knew it was coming. With Chris Christie's reputation in shambles, donors actively attempt to draft Jeb Bush for 2016.

Courtesy of The Washington Post:

Many of the Republican Party’s most powerful insiders and financiers have begun a behind-the-scenes campaign to draft former Florida governor Jeb Bush into the 2016 presidential race, courting him and his intimates and starting talks on fundraising strategy.

Concerned that the George Washington Bridge traffic scandal has damaged New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s political standing and alarmed by the steady rise of Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.), prominent donors, conservative leaders and longtime operatives say they consider Bush the GOP’s brightest hope to win back the White House.

Bush’s advisers insist that he is not actively exploring a candidacy and will not make a decision until at least the end of this year. But over the past few weeks, Bush has traveled the country delivering policy speeches, campaigning for Republicans ahead of the fall midterm elections, honing messages on income inequality and foreign policy, and cultivating ties with wealthy benefactors — all signals that he is considering a run.

Many if not most of 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s major donors are reaching out to Bush and his confidants with phone calls, e-mails and invitations to meet, according to interviews with 30 senior Republicans. One bundler estimated that the “vast majority” of Romney’s top 100 donors would back Bush in a competitive nomination fight.

“He’s the most desired candidate out there,” said another bundler, Brian Ballard, who sat on the national finance committees for Romney in 2012 and John McCain in 2008. “Everybody that I know is excited about it.”

Jeb Bush's name has been bandied about for some time now, but with Christie out, and other potential front runners defining the term "unimpressive," it looks like the Republicans may want to go with a brand name candidate.

The problem of course is that the brand was badly damaged by George Bush, who took a once proud family name and defecated all over it.

Jeb might not be his brother's keeper, but he is certainly splattered with the same mud that was slung at his W for taking us into two unnecessary wars, almost destroying the economy, and tarnishing the reputation of America around the world.

I remain unconcerned becasue in a contest between two political dynasties, the Clinton name stands head and shoulders above the one to which Jeb finds himself shackled.

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