When's the primary? Bush would need to sear on 7 stacks of bibles not to in it no matter what contingency however improbable and without limitation. Bush and Rubio are together in the right flank of the Florida Republicans that can't abide Christ. Christ would hate appointing Bush but would do it if he could be shown the solid "up" side.

I wouldn't worry about the Senate.

It's like the Kennedys putting their hope in Joe Kennedy, Jr. and then focusing on the other sons after Joe Jr. died.

I would worry more about Jeb running for President. Jeb was always George H. W. Bush's golden boy.

From Economist (January 15, 2005 issue, p. 33):

"Think of all the qualities that make an ideal Republican champion and Jeb has them in spades. He is the governor of the archetypal swing state: Florida is a multicultural hodgepodge with a red-state north, a blue-state south and 27 electoral votes. He is something of a multiculturalist himself: his wife was born in Mexico, his three children were once dubbed "the little brown ones" by George senior, and he is a convert to Roman Catholicism. Neatly, his governorship runs out in 2006.

The Bush family has always regarded Jeb as the bearer of the family fortunes. He was not only much more hard-working than his elder brother (he started kindergarten a year early and graduated from the University of Texas in two-and-a-half years). He was also much more ambitious; as a child he wanted to become president, while George wanted to be a baseball star. One of the family's biggest political surprises came in 1994, when George won the governorship of Texas while his "big little brother" (Jeb is five inches taller than George) went down to defeat in Florida.

But Jeb is not just a goody-two-shoes. He is more of an ideological conservative than his elder brother. He drank deep of the products of conservative think-tanks at a time when George was drinking deep of the world's distilleries. During his first term as governor he slashed taxes by more than $1 billion, introduced America's first statewide school-voucher programme, appointed a pro-life Catholic to the state's Supreme Court, spoke of "blowing up" state agencies and took on just about every Democratic interest group imaginable, from the teachers' unions to minority lobbies. But he manages to hide what he describes as his "head-banging" conservatism behind an emollient exterior.

Only one problem haunts this gold-plated CV: the family name. The Bush family is now the most successful political dynasty in American history. The Kennedys racked up barely 1,000 days in the White House; the Bushes will have done four times that by the time George W. finishes his term. But would Americans really vote for a third Bush president in 20 years?"

To piggyback on what I posted from Economist, there's no need for Jeb Bush to take baby steps (governor to senator to POTUS). He can hyphenate his name with his wife's name and run. Juan Gallo-Bush, 2012.