Six months into his run for the U.S. presidency, former Florida Governor John Ellis Bush, now known as Jus' Jeb!, has announced he is running for president next year.
Speaking before a crowd of 3,000 in South Florida, Bush said words.
"I will run with heart," he said, according to the Tampa Bay Times. "And I will run to win."
He knocked Hillary Clinton and President Obama ("The presidency should not be passed on from one liberal to the next.") and dished out some subtle digs against the 200 people he's slated to face in the Republican primary.
He said he his "willing to challenge and disrupt the whole culture in our nation's capital."
Yeah, we bet.
His "announcement" comes after weeks of scrutiny, namely for saying he thought his brother, former president George W. Bush, was right about invading Iraq (he later backed away from that). Then critics unearthed passages from a book he wrote in which he said public shaming and corporal punishment would prevent out-of-wedlock pregnancies and school shootings, respectively.
Already, the internet has made the Jeb! announcement entertaining. Months ago, a gay couple bought the domain name jebbishforpresident.com. Earlier today, the group Americans United for Change launched the Web site jebwbush2016.com to highlight the things Jeb! has in common with his brother, George W., from their politics to the people they surround themselves with. Earlier Tuesday, Twitter blew up over his logo.
This article appears in Jun 11-17, 2015.