Wrongest Man in Politics Says Jeb Bush Will Never Be the GOP Nominee

Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol — who’s wrong about everything, from the Iraq War to Sarah Palin to the popularity of gay marriage to various and sundry election outcomes — predicted Tuesday morning that Jeb Bush would never be the GOP presidential nominee, making that event all but certain.

“There’s no way there will be a Bush/Clinton race in 2016,” Kristol told a Morning Joe panel. “I will buy all of you dinner.”

“The Republican primary voters don’t want to nominate someone who was last in office a decade ago. He’s a good man, but he hasn’t been involved in any of the fights of the Obama years. Republicans are kinda worked up about Obamacare, about the policy failures. They’d like someone who’s either engaged in those fights in Washington, or a governor who’s governed successfully in real time, i.e., now. So, Scott Walker or a Mike Pence of a Ted Cruz or a Marco Rubio or a Paul Ryan. And I think all of them, incidentally, would be better candidates, probably, than Jeb Bush against Hillary Clinton.”

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That’s the anti-endorsement of a lifetime.

By the by, here’s a related Kristol gem, from December 2006: “Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.”

Watch the clip below, via MSNBC:

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