Jeb Bush's Dog, Explained
The Republican's canine fixation gets him in deep.
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As you might have noticed by now, sometimes it’s difficult to tell exactly what Jeb Bush means. And on Wednesday the confusion forced the governor to state his opposition to human-eating dogs.
Describing his vision of America in which entrepreneurialism is unchained from government regulation, Bush said in Oskaloosa, Iowa that he wants to “let the big dog eat.” It’s a phrase the former governor uses on occasion, and that he insists is a North Florida colloquialism (not unlike, we assume, the one about the old he-coon that helped doom his 1994 gubernatorial campaign).