While we all wait for the inevitable — Florida going into the Obama "win" column — we cats are thinking about Bushes.
Why? Because the son of a former Florida Governor and nephew of the Worst Person Who's Ever Lived has signaled an intention to run for something in the state that Rick Perry once hinted should secede. (Note to Rick: Better hurry, because the Lone Star state will, mark our words, turn purple.) Meanwhile, the buzz among "shellshocked" Republicans for Jeb! Bush to run for President in 2016 is definitely on.
We cats say: What a laff. If Jeb! Bush is the superficial answer to right-wing bubble dwellers who think that a celebrity with family connections and a Mexican wife can simultaneously solve the Republicans' Latino problem and pull Florida back from the brink of turning Presidential blue, then think about this:
How many Florida Latinos who will become eligible to vote in 2016 will have never seen Jeb! Bush's name on a ballot? His last race was in 2002!
Back then, white folks ruled the I-4 corridor electorally. Today, it's Dominicans and Puerto Ricans and other people the GOP doesn't like.
Of the hardline Cuban-Americans who loved Jeb! and were proud to vote for him, how many of them are still around — or will be still around in four years?
How many of those hardliners' grandchildren don't give a darn about Jeb!'s daddy's CIA ties to the anti-Castro underground that once ruled the Cuban-American community?
You see where we're going with this. But, fine — if the Republicans want to window-dress with Jeb!, or his silly son, or with Baby Marco Rubio, or with Susana Martinez, or whoever, let them try. But they'll never attract more Hispanic support if they don't change their miserable policies and halt the hate.
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