Jeb Bush is back, to the relief of a GOP that has in no uncertain terms wished for him to come to its rescue. While he isn't committing to a 2016 run, he also isn't ruling one out — and he is clearly signaling his intention to help helm the Republican party in some form, NBC's First Read team writes. Less clear are his signals on immigration reform, as Politico noted Monday night, citing apparently conflicting comments he made in interviews on NBC's "Today" show and "Nightly News" on Monday. But the First Read team advises not making too much of Bush's apparent newfound opposition to a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Bush supported such a pathway in the past but diverged from that in his new book "Immigration Wars" — putting him at odds with GOP up-and-comers like Sen. Marco Rubio. The younger Bush himself advises that onlookers "remember that this is a proposal that we attempted to put out prior to the election, to create a consensus for conservatives to actually get in the game." Or, as National Journal's Beth Reinhard put it, "Bush's party unexpectedly moved a lot faster than the book publishing world."
