Hello Mr. Bush. We hear that you are considering a run for the US Senate. We do not know each other and it is unlikely that our paths will cross. But if you do indeed win a seat in the Senate, then you will be in my life, though somewhat indirectly. You seem like a nice fellow. Let me offer a few thoughts.
Consider that the entire GOP franchise has been badly damaged by your brother, his handlers, and by groups who have perverted the meaning of conservatism. Your brother and his people have presided over the creation of entirely new species of corruption, incompetence, and forms of malfeasance that will take a decade to untangle.
A large fraction of citizens are angry over Bush II arrogance and its willful disregard of good civics. Americans want to move past the Bush epoch: A Bush III period is not welcome.
That being said, it seems that redemption of the family name may lie squarely on your shoulders. Please consider that the direction of this redemption may not be in Washington. It may be elsewhere and may take the form of more humble activity.
Sincerely yours,
Th’ Gaussling
Lamentations on Chemistry 
This is nicely and politely said. I will be happy to let Jed try in my place to experiment on the comparative effect of the beano you recommended this morning and meat tenderizer on the health of cockroaches.
1) “Who’s the bigger fool, the fool or those who follow him?” Lots of people followed Bush into the abyss, and enabled him and his party to do what they did. While W and his crew did wrong, they didn’t force their party to abandon what little soul and honor it possessed. That must be squarely on the party and its members.
2) The same people who supported and enabled W would probably need little excuse to start it up again, one certainly provided by Mr. Jeb Bush. Considering the widespread incompetence and potential economic collapse wrought W and Co., his party did not lose by a very large margin. Plenty of people are willing to gather themselves to attempt to wish their dark dream into reality. You can’t save people from themselves, and that is what JB would have to do not to reap a darker harvest for the family name.
People want kings. They want people anointed by god and fate. People are a lot more simple than you can imagine. They ‘load’ a particular program when young then continue to read from it for life. The ability for humans to make a correlation between past success and future selection is HARD WIRED into the genome. Hence if during a job interview you can say “MY father is CEO of whatsa name corp” or “My father is faculty at Harvard”, a primitive line of code rises up AND TAKES COMPLETE CONTROL OVER YOUR EVALUATOR’S MIND. Hence you see faculty being selected based on a particular lineage and provenance, while
someone more qualified is dumped. Same thing for politicians.
-If you can’t understand this, your lines of mental code have blocked it. If you can see it you’re probably mentally unbalanced and not quite human:)