Bush was politely non-committal, as he is in public, but said he was seriously considering the possibility and would make a decision after the holiday season.
Bush, brother to one former president and son of another, was also pressed on whether he thought his last name would be a liability in a national campaign.
The former Florida governor responded that “he quit worrying about that a long time ago,” according to two people in the room.
“He said that everybody has things about them that are positives and negatives, but he said he loves his brother and loves his father, and that every campaign is about telling people who you are,” said one source. “He said that my last name is the same, but I am not them. That my job is to show people who I am as a policy maker and a man, and that’s the same job everyone else has.”
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