But it is clear he does not hold much hope that Corbyn will survive anywhere near as long as five years as Labour leader, describing the thought of Corbyn leading the party into the 2020 election as "pretty heroic thinking".
Last week's convention made it clear that Mr. Bush intends to use what's left of his heroic image to win the election, and early polls suggest that the strategy may be working.
Assuming that the country holds together, a somewhat heroic assumption at this stage, elections for a new government won't be held until the end of May, which is three months away.
History has indeed been kind to Churchill, and not only because he wrote it; but his wartime heroics didn't save him from election defeat in 1945.
It managed a heroic political recovery in a closely fought election, but was eventually defeated.
In first edition of the Keys to the White House published many years before the 2008 election, I wrote that candidates attain heroic stature only "through vital leadership in war like Ulysses Grant and Dwight Eisenhower".
Johnson's awful behavior in Volume 2, when he steals the election, is somewhat mitigated by his heroics in Volume 3, when he gets civil rights legislation through the Senate.
Reminding voters of past struggles and victories, with images of heroic Nelson Mandela prominent in its publicity, still helps win elections in a landslide.
THE script for general-election campaigns is supposed to be full of heroic phrases, inspiring speeches, enthusiastic audiences and all the usual noises off.
Certainly, to envisage Trump's national poll improvement bearing fruit requires some heroic assumptions about the state contests that actually decide presidential elections.
