taught you how to hold your hits better? i think rand paul would be a good teacher. but he s bringing up this idea of privilege. but rand paul is the son of a congressman and doctor. he s hardly some guy who had to work his way up from the boot straps. but the other big point is that this feels to me more than marijuana. this is rand paul taking a shot at jeb bush, who is the big dog in the establishment lane of the gop primary. tomorrow he s going to be speaking at cpac a very right crowd, the libertarian types tea party. it s like hitting a pinata. i think rand paul doesn t like jeb bush and sees this as an opportunity to score some points with his base. luke russert, jeb s brother had maybe the most charming answer when he said when i was young and foolish, i was young and foolish. jeb is not quite the both. what he said was, i drank
might well be dipping into that you might need to fund a perry presidential race. so doesn t that concern you? well, if i decide to make the race, this will be about our vision, this will be about talking about the future of this country. reporter: perry was lieutenant governor of texas when jeb s brother, george w. bush, was governor. and they didn t always get along. it is an open secret that rick perry and the bush family have had some tension with george w. bush more obviously than his brother. is that going to play into any potential competition going forward? listen, this is a great family. you look back at george h.w. bush who chose texas a&m as his site of his library and comes to practically every aggie football game and to george living in this state. they re a great family. i respect them greatly, always have and always will.
reporter: in texas, there are a lot of donors that jeb bush might well be dipping into that you might need to fund a perry presidential race. so doesn t that concern you? if i decide to make the race, this will be about our vision, this will be about talking about the future of this country. reporter: perry was lieutenant governor of texas when jeb s brother, george w. bush was governor, and they didn t always get along. it s not a secret that rick perry has had tension with george w. bush. is that going to play into any potential competition going forward. this is a great family. you look back at george h.w. bush who chose texas a&m as the site of his library and to george living in this state, they re a great family. i respect them greatly, always
that has paid great dividends. if i make the decision to run for the presidency, i will be prepared. reporter: but this is the second largest state in the union, and you have talked about the great strives you ve made with this. so why isn t that enough experience? there s a great deal of difference between putting economic policies into a state and being very cognitive and versed in foreign policy and monetary policy, or domestic policy for that matter. reporter: last week, jeb bush became the first republican to make official moves toward a 2016 run. jeb s a good man, good friend. good governor of florida. as a matter of fact, i think jeb getting into the race will help the field. reporter: how so? he s been a successful governor and, again, having a person of his background in the race makes a lot of sense. but it won t make a difference whether i get in or not.
remarks. after a long time follower of national politics and bush family politics in particular, maybe this episode has a familiar ring to it, because it should. calls to mind a key moment in the rise of jeb s brother, george w. to the republican nomination and to the presidency nearly 15 years ago. back in september 1999 when then texas governor george w. bush was then the frontrunner for his party s presidential nomination, criticized the budget plan of the republican house majority. this was the same gop majority that miscalculated badly in its drive to impeach bill clinton, suffered a shocking loss of seats in the 1998 midterms and that under newt gingrich s leadership racked up poisoonous poll numbers. this is the story of bill clinton s presidency. republicans seized power in congress, then they proceeded to turn off broad swaths of the country with their far right ideology and anti-clinton antics. politically, those house republicans were in a way the best thing that ever happen