A comprehensive fisking of the "Jeb Bush" meme

Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake have an exceedingly silly article up at the Washington Post entitled "Why the GOP needs Jeb - right now".
I could go on about the sheer ridiculousness of the GOP pining for Yet Another Bush when they have pretty much decided that any mention of anything to do with any previous Bush is heresy punishable by ex-communication and torture by wet-noodle, but as it turns out, Hunter has the perfect fisking of this story up at DailyKos - "Pining for Jeb Bush is the new saddest thing ever".
 I can't quite do justice to this, you'll have to go read it yourself.  A sample below...

2. Organize/headline a series of immigration forums around the country: There is no more pressing electoral problem for Republicans than the party’s seeming inability to make any real inroads in the Hispanic community.

Ah, the continuing conundrum: Why do these minority groups continue to vote against people who make "minority groups are coming to take your crap job and mate with your lily-white daughter" the prime focus of their campaigns? [...]

3. Lay out a new Republican agenda: At the moment, the Republican Party is suffering from an ideas deficit. […] Bush has never had trouble on the ideas front — he LOVES policy and seems to hate politics — so now is the time to pick a few issues. Education is an obvious starting point since it has long been a pet issue for the former governor.

This is too silly to even respond to, [...] So yes, let's have famous ideas man Jeb Bush propose something-something-education to a party that will drop him in the dunk tank if he does not have an immediate and heartfelt explanation for why the earth is only eleventy-Jesus years old. I will pay 20 American dollars to watch that happen.

4. Find a “Sister Souljah” moment: Almost no one in the party other than Bush could pull off a direct confrontation with the GOP’s tea party base. But, there’s little doubt that for the party to move to a place where it can win a national election, the base of the party must be brought into line and made to understand that being right is nice but being victorious is better.

Find some batshit insane portion of the base that is too batshit insane for even the rest of the batshit insane base to take seriously, then ceremoniously dump on it. Well, that's bold. [...] Let's not go all crazy and propose being nicer to immigrants, or suggesting that no, all of climate science is not an elaborate plot to put the cows in charge of the humans, or suggesting that maybe the ladyfolks of America are maybe perfectly capable of managing their ladyparts without the intervention of several hundred individually elected Popes of Other Peoples' Naughtybits—no, start smaller. Perhaps a declaration that ice cream is not the work of the devil, or something.

Will Bush do any/all of these things? Who knows. He has met with his former political aides and done nothing to knock down the idea that he wants to re-enter the national conversation in a real way.

And his party needs him to do just that — the sooner the better.

[...] Jeb? The Next and We-Promise-You-At-Least-Slightly-Smarter Bush, as the person to maintain the family tradition of leading America down no particular path because what the hell, choosing our future proposed leaders based on bloodlines isn't that objectionable, it's not like we don't give the common folks a proper voting chance, once we've pumped a hundred million or so dollars worth of momentum behind the preferred scion so-and-so. That seems a bit much.

The problem is not, my fellow very, very tired Americans, that Republicanism needs a new savior to save them from the all those previous saviors. [...] While I have little doubt a Jebbish figure could quite competently mumble those same non-ideas and contradictory, faux-nationalistic sillinesses with the best of them, the same job could just as easily be done by a robot or a pop-up book...