Anyone else get a kick out of what a huge fail Jeb Bush’s endorsement of Romney turned out to be?

As I mentioned earlier, the whole endorsement already had a certain ‘day late and a dollar short’ aspect to it – right before Super Tuesday, it could have been a big deal. A few days before Louisiana (where polls have Mitt getting spanked) is kind of not a big deal.

But then the Romney campaign inflicted the whole Etch-A-Sketch debacle on itself and their big endorsement sank with nary a ripple across the media universe. Which probably suits Jeb just fine.

Also, anyone else wonder if Jeb is counting on the Mitt campaign being such a huge disaster that it torpedoes the career of whoever Mitt picks as his running mate? Because that would explain Jeb’s support of Marco Rubio for the veep nod – kill two birds with one stone by watching Obama win re-election, thereby leaving the White House open for himself in 2016, while Rubio’s brand gets prematurely poisoned by both the increased media scrutiny and association with Romney.

Maybe that’s a stretch, but it’s gives me chuckles to think about it.