Jeb Bush breaks from the GOP pack on vaccination fears to position himself as the only viable candidate against Hillary Clinton.

Courtesy of Mediaite:  

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush could only avoid the vaccination debate for so long. After watching potential 2016 Republican presidential primary opponents Chris Christie and Rand Paul face criticism for their less than enthusiastic embraces of vaccines amidst a measles outbreak, Bush did his best to skirt controversy on the issue during a speech before the Detroit Economic Club on Wednesday. 

“Parents need to make sure their children are vaccinated,” he said definitively to applause from the crowd in attendance. “Do we need to get into any detail of that?” he asked. 

“I’ve said things that are misinterpreted or partially interpreted and then heads explode and all source of media just create all this controversy,” Bush continued, perhaps in reference to Christie and Paul. “I think it’s better just to say parents have a responsibility to make sure their children are protected, over and out.”

This of course is the kind of definitive statement that fellow Republicans like Rand Paul, Chris Christie, and others have failed to make. And it is smart politics especially in light of Hillary's no BS statement on vaccinations.

The science is clear: The earth is round, the sky is blue, and #vaccineswork. Let's protect all our kids. #GrandmothersKnowBest
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 3, 2015

Not only that but it appears that of all of the GOP potential candidates who can seriously challenge Hillary in the all important swing states. Jeb Bush comes out way ahead.

This courtesy of CNN: 

Clinton has double digit leads over each of her would-be GOP foes for the presidency in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with the exception of ties in Florida when matched up against the state's former Gov. Jeb Bush and in Ohio against current Gov. John Kasich, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday. No candidate has won the presidency since 1960 without winning two of those three crucial states. 

Other native sons didn't fare as well against the former secretary of state, with Clinton still topping Florida's Sen. Marco Rubio 49% to 39% and also leading Pennsylvania's former Sen. Rick Santorum by 10 points in his state. 

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie flopped to Clinton by double digits in each of the three states, according to the poll, including in neighboring Pennsylvania where he caps at 39% to Clinton's 50%, according to the Quinnipiac survey of 881 voters in that state.

As I have been saying for quite some time now I think there is virtually NO doubt that our 2016 choices will be Hillary Clinton vs Jeb Bush.

And once again in my opinion if we have Hillary, they HAVE to go with Jeb, and if they have Jeb, we HAVE to go with Hillary. Any other choice will be steamrolled.

So any complaints we have about political dynasties, aggressive foreign policies, and Wall Street kissing up, we might as well air now, because in the end we are NOT going to get the squeaky clean super liberal that many of us want, and the Right is not going to get the Fundamentalist, big government hating, constitutional conservative that they want.

I think at this point the only thing that could stop the inevitable is a serious health problem, or a heretofore unknown scandal big enough to shock the electorate.