The former president says his younger brother’s potential candidacy for the White House has a problem: him.
“It’s an easy line to say, ‘Haven’t we had enough Bushes?’ After all, even my mother said, ‘Yes,’” Bush told an audience of 7,000 health IT experts in Chicago, according to Politico.
“That’s why you won’t see me out there, and he doesn’t need to defend me, and he’s totally different from me,” Politico quoted the 43rd president as saying. “The role of family is not to be a political adviser or a policy adviser — there are plenty of those around — the role is to say, ‘Hey man, I love you.”
Jeb Bush, the former two-term governor of Florida, has not yet officially announced a bid for the presidency, but is widely believed to be running. Some Republicans remain wary of the Bush family name and Jeb Bush has sought to distance himself, insisting he will be his “own man.”