Jeb Bush’s Donald Trump distraction

Per­haps the con­front­a­tion was in­ev­it­able. Trump has been at­tack­ing Bush over his per­son­al­ity (“a low-en­ergy guy,” is the fa­vor­ite at­tack line), his policies (“he’ll now find out it’s not an act of love,” Trump jibed Bush over em­bra­cing im­mig­ra­tion re­form), and even his wife (“Jeb Bush has to like the Mex­ic­an Il­leg­als be­cause of his wife,” Trump tweeted). Bush’s al­lies de­fend the Trump en­gage­ment by ar­guing: How will people see him as a tough com­mand­er in chief if he doesn’t get up­set at the guy hit­ting him so per­son­ally? “There’s no path for suc­cess in cower­ing in­to a corner and hop­ing for the best,” Bush spokes­man Tim Miller said.

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But so far, Bush has been spar­ring with Trump joy­lessly, un­der­scor­ing his dis­taste for polit­ic­al theat­er. As Na­tion­al Re­view ed­it­or-in-chief Rich Lowry put it, Bush at­tack­ing Trump is “like watch­ing a WWE wrest­ler get a stern talk­ing to from Ned Flanders.”

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