Mark Steyn On The Bush Dynasty

12/18/2014

The 1992, 2000, 2016, 2020, 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036, 2040, 2044, 2048, 2052, 2056, 2060, 2064, 2068, 2072, 2076, 2080, 2084, 2088 and 2092 Republican presidential candidates get together at a recent fundraiser for influential GOP bundlers

The Bush Family picture and caption above appear on Mark Steyn’s website with the heading "Jeb Tide." [December 16, 2014]

As a subject of Her Majesty The Queen and a former resident of London, Steyn is familiar with the idea of hereditary aristocracy, but this is getting ridiculous. He wrote in March, discussing a possible Hillary run

Bush/Clinton/Bush/Clinton now and forever, at least until George P Bush marries Chelsea Clinton and the two ruling houses are consolidated into one House of Bush-Clinton-Rodham-Coburg-Gotha. I've nothing against Jeb Bush. I happen to disagree with him on "immigration reform", but he was a competent executive of Florida and he’s a thoughtful and (on his game) gifted speaker. But there are over 300 million people in this country, and, granted that 57 per cent or whatever it’s up to by now are fine upstanding members of the Undocumented-American community, what is it about the Bush family that makes them so indispensable to the Republic as to supply three presidential candidates within a quarter-century? Say what you like about actual monarchy but at least you get a non-heriditary political class: this may seem incredible to Americans but neither Canada’s Stephen Harper, Australia’s Tony Abbott, New Zealand’s John Key nor Britain’s David Cameron is the previous Prime Minister’s brother or wife.

This time he’s saying

Jeb is campaigning "to restore the promise of America". A Bush has been on six of the last nine presidential tickets, but the smart money in the GOP thinks they're so indispensable to the Republic that they should now be given a shot at a third presidency. One man and his sons will have supplied three-fifths of America’s presidents within a quarter-century — in a republic of over 300 million people. I don’t think that’s any way "to restore the promise of America" — and, in fact, like the unconstitutional amnesty, the hideous CRomnibus and the bipartisan debt mountain, it’s another sign of the seedy dysfunctionalism of America’s political institutions.

You might also check out these two VDARE.com articles from the second Bush president’s first term:

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