Jeb Bush On Sarah Palin: If She Only Had A Brain… (VIDEO)

Former Republican Governor of Florida Jeb Bush
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has some advice for Sarah Palin: You’d be a great, if you only had a brain.

In a recent interview with Newsmax, Bush was asked whether he thought Palin was a viable candidate for president. Though he had some nice things to say about her “charisma,” it was clear that Bush thinks Palin doesn’t have the intellectual heft to occupy the oval office. He said that Palin’s success depends on her willingness to add a “depth of understanding of the complexity of life we’re living in today” to her rhetoric.

“That’s up to her,” he said. “I mean, I don’t know what her deal is, but my belief is in 2010 and 2012, public leaders need to have intellectual curiosity.”

Check out the Newsmax interview featuring Bush’s extremely faint praise for Palin (starts at 18:38, runs for about a minute):

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