'41 to Endorse McCain & Where's Jeb?

One of the NY Times reporters assigned to the McCain campaign writes in his log that the nominee-in-waiting will travel to Houston Monday to meet with Bush '41. And while the "e" word has not yet been said aloud, the former president is expected to endorse McCain.

Which leads nicely into the point I set out to make in this entry. Where's Jeb?

Arguably the most popular, pristine Republican of them all is no where to be seen. After leaving the governor's mansion, Jeb Bush said he was going to lay low for a while. Man, he wasn't kidding.

How would his endorsement of someone other than McCain have changed this race?

For a while I had his personal email address. I sent him one request for an interview not long after he left Tallahassee and he sent back a short but very nice note saying that he really wanted to just be out of the spotlight for a while. You've got to respect that, right?

Subsequent emails to that same address, however, have not been returned. And those who have access to him won't make eye contact with me when I begin to hint around at maybe them helping me out a little getting in touch with him or passing a message along.