{"id":13069,"date":"2016-02-21T16:25:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T16:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13069"},"modified":"2016-02-21T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T16:26:12","slug":"another-bush-vs-clinton-not-any-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13069","title":{"rendered":"Another Bush vs. Clinton? Not any longer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It seems like eons ago.<\/p>\n

Pundits on the left and the right not so long ago were talking — some of them bemoaning — about the idea of another race involving presidential candidates named “Bush and Clinton.”<\/p>\n

Well, as of Saturday night that dream\/nightmare went out the window.<\/p>\n

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush dropped out of the Republican primary race after getting battered in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

The “Clinton” in this scenario? Hillary Clinton won the Nevada Democratic caucus by a comfortable — if not overwhelming — margin and has returned as the prohibitive favorite for her party’s presidential nomination.<\/p>\n

I was not one of those who dreaded another Bush-Clinton matchup. I thought then, and I still do, that Jeb Bush could have made a strong case for his own candidacy. He has executive experience and did a good job as governor of a growing state. He’s not the squishy lefty that hard-right conservatives say he is.<\/p>\n

Donald J. Trump drew a bead on Bush early on and beat his brains in.<\/p>\n

Then we have Hillary Clinton. I refuse to refer to her as “Hillary,” as so many others have done.<\/p>\n

She’s got some baggage. Her own legislative and foreign policy experience will be a plus as she plows her way to the expected nomination.<\/p>\n

Clinton has that authenticity and likability matter she’ll need to resolve.<\/p>\n

You know what they say about any span of time being a “lifetime in politics.” It could be a day, a week, a month — perhaps even an hour, or so it seems.<\/p>\n

A year clearly is a lifetime.<\/p>\n

What once was seen as quite probable is now gone. Vanished. Jeb Bush could’ve been a contendah.<\/em><\/p>\n

It didn’t happen. Now, it’s on to the next round of unpredictable finishes.<\/p>\n

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