With Jeb gone, media declares ‘Bush dynasty’ over but son George P. Bush could prove them wrong

After Jeb Bush suspended his bid for president Saturday, there was much gleeful chatter that the “Bush dynasty” was finally over. Kaput. Goodbye. In the 24 hours that followed, NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd advised his audience, “the Bush dynasty comes to an official end.” Vanity Fair published a lengthy “Requiem for the Bush dynasty,” while The Atlantic ran “An elegy for the Jeb Bush Campaign.” The Guardian put it this way: “Ding, dong, the dynasty is dead: So long to Jeb Bush and the family” while the New Republic declared, “And so the Bush dynasty comes to an end.”

These accounts appear to overlook the candidate’s son. George Prescott Bush, 39, is a former public school teacher, an attorney, U.S. Navy Reserve officer, real estate investor, married father of two and the commissioner of the Texas General Land Office. Mr. Bush the younger won his bid for that influential office in 2014 after conducting an aggressive campaign and promising Texas voters, “I will bring my conservative values and my real-world experience with me.”

The grandson of George H.W. Bush and the nephew of George W. Bush is not likely to fade into the Long Star landscape anytime soon. And he got an early start. To augment his uncle’s presidential campaign, George P. made a polished political debut, offering a major address at the Republican national convention in 2000.

Talk surfaced that the ambitious young family man - with good looks favoring his Mexican mother - would one day run for president. “Viva George P! Speculation is already growing that Jeb Bush’s eldest son may make a bid for the White House,” noted The Independent, and that was in mid-2012. Even The Atlantic called him “a political dynasty’s young hope.”

But for now, Mr. Bush is taking care of business at his office in the Lone Star State, and reaching out to his father.

“I love you Dad and proud that you offered a servant’s heart to the people of this great country,” the he tweeted Sunday. And of ironic note to Republicans tempted to mull the end of the “Clinton dynasty”: There are already bumper stickers out there noting, “Chelsea Clinton for President 2020” — and future election years right up to 2032.