For the Democrats, the presidential hopes of many hang on what happens in 2004, but the Republicans seem rather… settled on who the big-wigs in the smokey rooms have set up to send down the pike.

Brief excerpt stolen from another blog: “We are not saying that he is absolutely running, but we’re saying that there are plans being made,” Peter Schweizer said in an exclusive interview with the Tallahassee Democrat before the book’s full contents are released next month. “Jeb has talked to his mother about his financial situation, in the context of running for president. So we know that within the family, they’re talking about the realities of running.”

Republicans Priming and Being Primed for the Presidency

(1) Jeb Bush
(2) Bill Frist
(3) Arnold Schwarzenegger

It war clear as early as the 1998 mid-term elections (and perhaps even 1996’s election) that the Bush Brothers were coming down the pike. I recall reading a George Carlin piece online back in ’98 marvelling on the coming Bushes… (somewhere plugged into the bit that we all know deep down that the country is run on bullshit, and Clinton won in ’96 ’cause he was honest about his bullshit, unlike Dole.)

As for Arnold… well, first there’s the matter of changing the constitution… which, I suppose, would have some muscle-room competition with that other constitutional amendment hopping about (and going nowhere fast, though int its semi-defense it’s not designed to go anywhere.)

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