He's made a deal for VP.. Or some such. They always do.

That's too bad.

The Kochs have made it abundantly clear that they aren't interested in funding Romney, and Romney has no intention of funding it himself (he very obviously didn't spend any of his own money last time). No money, no run.

Can't see him as VP, but def a cushy ambassadorship. Perhaps Cuba.

47%

thanks jeb for a preview of your 2016 line of bullshit platitudes.

I wouldn't be surprised if "rise up" becomes his campaign slogan.

grind them into the dirt, Hillary.

What happened is that Romney's 2012 donors went over to Jeb, it's that simple

When you get past an elite like Jeb, it's still pretty much of a clown car in the GOP field. They just haven't starting campaigning yet to show off their true colors.

Damn, I was looking forward to idiotic posts from Gay Dude For Raindrop

@8 Don't worry, he's already submitted his resume to Jeb's campaign, to become Gay Dude For Bush Redux

@2: Take heart, now you do not have to pretend to be someone else here on Slog for a year.

Gay Dude for Bush carries all kinds of weird implications, after all.

Maybe "Gay Reb for Jeb?"

I look forward to your decision.

If 2016 is between a second Clinton or a third Bush, it will be painfully obvious that the current two party system in America is our biggest problem. Big business always wins. American citizens always lose.

Almost a majority of us are on public welfare programs like food stamps, section 8 housing, and SSI, because of low wages. Health insurance is unaffordable (mine is $450/month… contrast this to my $25/month car insurance from Insurance Panda… or my $12/month life insurance from Ant). Two thirds of young adults have student loans to which they cannot pay back due to lack of good jobs in the community.

A vast swath of Americans are locked out of the housing market because homes are turned into luxury goods, not a place to stay in the community. Rent rates at apartments have gone through the roof in most metro areas nationwide. Food at grocery stores have gotten way to expensive. Property taxes are making it impossible for everyone to live comfortably in their townships.

So, I'm guessing its not a matter whether people are financially inept with their money, but rather that our economy has been rewarding high income earners and punishing those on the social class bottom with low wages. Somebody who is a janitor, a maintenance man, or even a cashier at Wal-Mart shouldn't be paid $6.20 per hour with no benefits. Its even worst with people with disabilities when we do nothing to give them a lift out of poverty. Sorry USA - your system isn’t working!

We're going to have a president named "Jeb".
Another golden son in the Bush Dynasty.. from the Nazis, to the OSS, to the CIA, to the presidency--thrice.

Son, we're fucked. Unbridled capitalism, FULL SPEED AHEAD!

@2, yeah, I'm disappointed Mitt dropped out too, but probably for different reasons than you.

It would have been funny to watch him run another mediocre campaign, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to go nowhere, watching him claim to be working for the everyman, the middle class. Hahahahaha, that would have been a good laugh.

Thankfully, there are plenty of other loons in the republican clown car. So far, this is shaping up to be almost as much fun to watch as the last election.

And, yes, Jeb is the greatest recipient of the gift of Romney dropping out, but I don't think he will do much better. He'll get the bulk of the republican establishment/Koch money, but but like Romney, Jeb's support among right wing republicans is tepid at best.

Can we please start calling "Jeb" by his actual name instead of his cutesy acronym of initials?

The younger scion of that elite Connecticut family is named John Ellis Bush. He's no more a "Jeb" than I am. Fucking poseur...

@13 Personally, I think he'll have much stronger Republican base support than Romney. I wish that were not so, but I do think it will be. There's a lot of overlap in the Republican base with strong Protestant beliefs to the extent that they are uncomfortable with a president who is of a different religion, and whether or not Romney wanted his religion to be an issue, I think it was. But it's a bit too far from an election to really see how much support candidates have.

@14: If it's good enough for GOB it's good enough for JEB.