Check out the Charlie Rose interview here. Go to the 50 minute mark. And watch him squirm in a way he doesn't anywhere else in the interview. The subject? Marriage equality. He sounds like Obama two months ago. David Link observes:
Jeb’s detours, platitudes, bromides and banality not only don’t answer the question, they don’t even seem to convince Jeb himself.
That, I think (and hope) is the tragedy of politicians of good faith. They know they are giving the wrong answer and hate themselves for it. Can Jeb Bush really believe that when he says same-sex marriage is a “diversion,” he is not insulting every lesbian and gay man, to whom marriage is not some triviality or stratagem, but a central fact of their daily life?
I think not. He was brought up right. But that's where his party is, and he cannot cross them.