dysfunctional. but this feels like, hugh, the republican party doesn t know what to do with the bush leg. i a lot don t. the best moment jeb had in the debate so far is when he said my brother kept us safe. that s the best part of the bush legacy is that after 9/11 he did the hour of our grief speech, gave a state of the union on the axis of evil and the republican base wants that to be w s legacy. hw s comments about cheney and rumsfeld run into that head wind. most of the republicans i talked to admired the vice president a lot and there s not much upside in attacking them. what do we like the best? we like that these guys confirm that we suspect. we confirmed this is what h.w. was. we also confirm that if our parents ask about years later what we thought about what we did there may be criticism. i would love to be at their thanksgiving table and here how that conversation plays out. the personal part of this, reading meacham s book, the one thing that i was surprised to fe