Jeb Bush’s ‘Impossible’ Candidacy By James Freeman
http://www.wsj.com/articles/jeb-bushs-impossible-candidacy-1446202788
Plus Republicans want another great communicator and 26 states sue to stop the President’s so-called Clean Power Plan.
Ms. Noonan adds that Mr. Bush is “not good at the merry aggression of national politics. He never had an obvious broad base within the party.” And he “was playing from an old playbook—he means to show people his heart, hopes to run joyously. But it’s 2015, we’re in crisis; they don’t care about your heart and joy, they care about your brains, guts and toughness.”
Kimberley Strassel writes that on debate night, “An outsider race gave way to an insider breakout. Three insiders, to be precise: Marco Rubio, Chris Christie and Ted Cruz.” A big reason why is that Republican voters want “a great communicator, an effective advocate for their cause. They haven’t had one since Reagan, and the Bushes and McCains and Romneys have highlighted how big a problem that is.”
“Hillary Clinton told the Boston Globe the other day that she’d give President Obama ‘an A’ grade for his handling of the economy,” notes a Journal editorial. And then came Thursday’s third quarter GDP report showing anemic 1.5% growth.
Attorneys General from 26 states sued this week to stop President Obama’s takeover of the carbon economy, observes the editorial board. “For all Mr. Obama’s eco-abuses, the legal reckoning now at hand is the most important,” says the editorial, because the so-called Clean Power Plan “will undermine growth, consumer incomes and U.S. competitiveness in ways that will be difficult for the next President to reverse.”
“The Chinese Communist Party’s decision Thursday to end its one-child policy is a landmark that ends one of the worst government intrusions on human freedom in world history,” says the Journal. “But this is no epiphany about individual choice. Chinese leaders are acknowledging, albeit belatedly, that they face a looming demographic crisis from a rapidly aging population.”…Nicholas Eberstadt adds that China’s dictatorship “has no plans to relinquish authority over its subjects’ birth patterns; rather, Beijing has simply changed the ration. Now two children per family will be permitted.”
Robert Woodson defends Paul Ryan and the late Jack Kemp in our pages from a recent attack by commentator Ann Coulter. Mr. Woodson calls the political pundit “a right-wing Al Sharpton” who “is more interested in delivering flamboyant attacks than in offering fact-based analysis.”
Also, just in time for Halloween, Jake Halpern explains why we’re afraid of the dark.
And Joseph Loconte explains how Martin Luther shook up Christianity 498 years ago Saturday.
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