I’d rather be wrong about Jeb Bush’s interest in the Senate, but it appears my initial skepticism was warranted. Jeb says he’s not interested.

Back on December 2, I wrote:

When I saw Jeb Bush speak to a small group earlier this year, I came away with two conclusions. First, the man has an executive’s instincts and wants to run things, so running for the Senate isn’t likely to interest him. Second, I got the feeling that he didn’t quite know what he wanted to do next in his life — something in the area of education reform, but not stuck in a bureaucracy. Most successful governors just instinctively flirt with the idea of running for president; Jeb Bush projected none of that. Having witnessed his father and his brother experience the ups and downs of the presidency, he doesn’t seem like a man who has that instinctive yearning necessary to run for the Oval Office.

Like I said, I would rather have been wrong.