He's Got Hiiiigh Nopes…*

Flailing House of Bush scion John Ellis "J.E.B.!" Bush feels he has to justify those tens and tens of millions of dollars that his daddy's plutocrat friends ponied up for him to buy win the Rethuglican / New Confederate / Stupid / Shooters Party nomination.  He's been desperate to spin his failure as something else, and he's certainly came up with an inventive one now, namely that he's happy not to be the front runner:

"Yeah, I hated [being the front runner]. I feel much better back here. Because I have a brother that was president and a father that was president. And that higher expectation was important to realize. And so being the front runner made me feel like the other guys just dancing right through this. I have to go earn it. I have higher expectations on me than people have on me."  (emphasis added)

Anyone that believes that J.E.B.! hated being the front runner also believes in leprechauns. This plutocratic bumbler might be marginally smarter than his brother, but he's a lousy campaigner and liar.  Also, where does he come off thinking that anyone has "higher expectations" of him because his father and brother were President?  In varying degrees, they screwed that job up, so the public's expectations of him are exactly where they belong:  very low, like his poll numbers.

* Apologies to this old campaign song.