You can't make this shit up.
“I hated that," he told John Dickerson on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "I feel much better back here.” [...]
“Being the front-runner made me feel like that people are going to begin to say, well, the guy is just dancing right through this. I have to go earn it,” he said. “I have higher expectations on me than people have of me. So, it doesn't bother me a bit that the expectations are high.”
And The Onion weeps because Jeb Bush stole a headline from them.
If you buy the idea that Jeb never really wanted to be president, I'd called this the most solid evidence yet.
I'm not exactly sold on the idea that being a polling asterisk is more beneficial than being the frontrunner in regards to media coverage. The men saying wrong/terrible/stupid things very loudly every single day appear to be the ones running the show. Jeb does not benefit from being seen as a quiet loser. His conventional wisdom of media coverage does not apply unless you're Hillary Clinton.