We’re well past the point where anyone seriously believes that Jeb Bush’s campaign and his super PAC, Right to Rise, are distinct organizations. Sure, they may have stopped talking to each other once Jeb formally announced his candidacy, but not before they synced up on their respective messages in an effort to run essentially the same campaign. There’s reason why reporters are adding totals from Jeb’s campaign committee and his super PAC together when reporting his overall fundraising hauls.

Perhaps in that spirit, Jeb Bush committed another accidental bout of honesty — harkening back to the time when he accidentally announced he was running while touring with Right to Rise — in an interview with Iowa Public Radio earlier today.

Said Bush, discussing his campaign’s presence in Iowa (emphasis added):

I’ll be here two and half days. I’ve been here what, five or six times? We have a great ground game that we’re working on. I’ve been told at least we have more people signed up in positions of leadership in the 99 counties and that we’re going at it. You build on your success. We just started to advertise—actually the Right to Rise PAC started to advertise, not our campaign. We’re doing all the campaign organization out of these two offices, we have good field staff, candidate gets better every time he gets out there, things are looking good.

While Bush caught and corrected himself, the slip is telling. Sure, Right to Rise’s massive ad buy in Iowa is public knowledge, but if he heard about the buy from the news, and not from his internal organization why’d he default to “we” language before correcting to “they”?

This is especially important given the fact that Right to Rise is essentially the only reason Jeb Bush’s campaign is still considered viable in the long term. He’s been completely incapable of gaining traction in the polls, his endorsements are drying up and he keeps saying abundantly stupid things about his family and its record. Were it not for intimidating fundraising numbers, we’d all be talking about Bush being one of the next-most-likely candidates to drop out.

And if Bush keeps making unforced errors like these, he may not even be able to hang on to what little advantage he has.