I’ve just watched an interview with Jeb Bush (the Corner’s favorite candidate). Find it here. I must say, the man’s English is a breath of fresh air.

“I’ll win if I show my heart, if I advocate ideas that will give people a sense that they can rise up . . .” Jeb is one American who has not caught the “advocate for” disease — the disease that makes you say, “I advocate for ideas.”

He then said that Barack Obama was “living in an alternative universe.” Not “alternate universe.”

I’m not sure Jeb will be able to communicate to the electorate, using English that good.

But he lost points — with me, at least — when he talked about “growing the economy.” Ugh. There is hardly anything uglier in the language. Oh, how it impacts me! People started saying “grow the economy” sometime in the 1990s, I think, and I fear it’s here to stay.

Maybe I should advocate for an alternate universe where they don’t use “grow” that way? The reason why is because . . .