A new book from a Florida insider with no love for its subject warns of a Jeb presidential run as early as 2008.

In ”JEB: America’s Next Bush,” reporter Shirish Date advances a plausible-on-paper scenario for Florida’s 43rd governor to run for the nation’s highest elective office…

New book says Jeb is “not only a liar, but an accomplished one” and describes him as “a tall, mean guy with a giant head and twitching nose hairs.”

”Given his personality, given his sense of mission, given that his father and his clearly less-qualified brother have both accomplished this, it’s hard to imagine Jeb not running for president,” Date writes.

…Date reasons that, at 54, Jeb Bush is too young and ambitious to languish in commercial real-estate boardrooms and policy-wonk think tanks around Miami for long…

”For Jeb, the biggest factor that will push him into a presidential campaign will be his own boredom,” Date writes.

Now there’s a dangerous concept — a bored Jeb. Who knows what mayhem could result from that? I’m tempted to read the book just for the promised descriptions of my least favorite Florida governor ever.

…his narrative is also marked by ventures into more interpretive areas, such as calling Bush ”not only a liar, but an accomplished one” and describing him as ”a tall, mean guy with a giant head and twitching nose hairs.”

Date – pronounced DAH-tay – said in an interview he doesn’t dislike Bush. He just thinks winning outweighs fair play in the autocratic chief executive’s ”bred to rule” approach to government. Bush did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.

Others say the ultimate irony is that Democrats taking the White House next year could be just the break Jeb needs to make a big ol’ comeback.

[One analyst] said ”Bush fatigue” will hurt the ex-governor in the foreseeable future. But if the Democrats win in 2008, the brand name could be quickly rehabilitated in 2012, she said, and a third Bush presidency would be plausible.

Chilling thought, but Date has another take.

Running for vice president doesn’t fit Bush’s top-dog style, Date said…

And besides, Date said, if Bush doesn’t run next year and the Republicans win, he’ll have to wait until 2016. He’ll be 63 then, young by presidential standards, but will have been out of office for 10 years – while the family’s big-donor list will have died off or found other GOP favorites.

Let us pray.