Jeb Bush channels John Kerry

Jeb Bush has had a tough time of it in recent days.

He said he’d go to war in Iraq knowing what he knows now about the absence of weapons of mass destruction.

Then he said he misheard the question from the TV journalist. Then he said he misinterpreted the question.

Finally, the former Florida governor and probable Republican presidential candidate said “No, I wouldn’t” go to war.

This all reminds me a bit of a scathing political ad that Jeb’s brother, President George W. Bush, used in his 2004 re-election campaign against Democratic U.S. Sen. John Kerry. It contained this snippet:

The “$87 billion” referred to the senator’s flip flop on his own vote to go to war in Iraq.

So, do you think Jeb Bush’s indecision on whether he’d go to war is going to show up in a political ad during the 2016 GOP primary, and again in the general election if his party nominates him?

I’ll bet “yes.”