Bill Maher Would Be Fine with President Jeb Bush ‘Because He’s Not Ted Cruz’

Jeb Bush isn’t exactly the darling of the right, and that’s why Bill Maher would be perfectly fine with him as president. In a new blog post this week, Maher has a very simple argument for why President Jeb Bush wouldn’t be so bad: “he’s not Ted Cruz.”

Maher identifies Bush’s sanity as his core problem within the GOP, and laments, “If we had to have a Republican president, I’d prefer that it be someone who eats with a fork and a knife.”

And Maher knows he disagrees with Bush on a lot, but he lays out the reasons why he would be more or less fine with him succeeding Obama:

He’s not a fire-breather. He’s a policy wonk in a party where no one cares about policy anymore. He’s not only not against Mexicans, he’s married to one. What’s more, he’s already having trouble with Republicans who are bringing up that in 2012 Jeb Bush said he could – repeat could – accept a hypothetical deal with Democrats that accept $1 in tax increases for $10 in spending cuts.

But he doubts the GOP will want a “sane, reasonable” candidate anyway.

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