Bush and Rubio Headed for a Collision

Associated Press: “There once was mutual public deference. But that has eroded as the Florida Republicans battling for the presidential nomination have come to see the other as the main threat to lofty ambitions: Bush claims the party establishment’s mantle, Rubio wants be the party’s fresh national face.”

“Bush now routinely compares Rubio’s background to Barack Obama’s before the Democrat became president. Rubio says it’s ‘time to turn the page,’ a reference that strikes as hard at Bush’s long family legacy as it does at Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.”

Washington Post: “The battle over who should carry the mantle of the GOP establishment is shaping up as an intensifying showdown between the state’s two political powerhouses, between mentor and protege.”