It’s become standard practice for presidential candidates to run away from the governing establishments of their parties. So it was a little odd this week to see the latest could-be candidate with the last name of Bush (you can’t get more establishment than that) sucking up to an audience of business execs and reporters at the Four Seasons in Georgetown (OK, maybe you can). It was like Jeb was readying to run for the presidency of Congressional Country Club instead. In case you missed it, Bush gave a speech extolling the virtues of pragmatism and practicality, which are more often insults in Republican politics these days, and said that a less extremist candidate has to be willing to “lose the primary to win the general.” His pitch strikes a lot of political analysts as hopeful bordering on naive — the kind of self-congratulatory thing you say just before you become the next Fred Thompson.
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