“Attacks on Jeb Bush are ramping up even before he enters the 2016 presidential race, with fellow Republicans questioning everything from his conservative bona fides to whether he is prepared for a long campaign to become the party’s nominee,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“It highlights the core challenge of Mr. Bush’s expected formal entry into the campaign: a family name that has given him outsize attention and access to an unparalleled fundraising network that at the same time could make it difficult for him to forge a political independence. It also shows that even though Mr. Bush’s political standing is weaker in Iowa than elsewhere, he remains the focus of the race, with the other presidential hopefuls implicitly defining themselves against him.”
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