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Bush and Clinton Dynasties Hit Trump Bump
nyt ^ | AUG. 29, 2015 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 08/29/2015 4:21:09 PM PDT by Red Steel

Washington — PITY Poppy.

When I went down to Houston a few years ago to eat pizza with the former president, he was his usual gracious self, speaking fondly about President Obama and his new pal Bill Clinton.

But there was one person who got dismissed with a brusque obscenity: Donald Trump.

It was at the height of Trump’s birther madness and Bush was disgusted by it.

So I can only imagine 41’s dismay and disbelief — and acid flashbacks to spoiler Ross Perot — now that Trump has popped up to block the path of the son who Poppy desperately wants to see as 45, restoring the family name after 43’s spiral.

The New York wheeler-dealer, who held a fund-raiser at his Trump Tower apartment for gubernatorial candidate Jeb at Poppy’s request back in 1997, has had a devastating and disorienting effect on Jeb’s presidential candidacy.

The Trumpster has suckered Jeb! into scraps that have ended up backfiring on Jeb and elevating Trump. And he has trumpeted a lethargic, insubstantial image of Jeb that is at odds with the perky red “Jeb!” campaign logo.

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“The prospect of Hillary and Jeb as the nominees created a huge opening for something like this,” said former W. strategist Matthew Dowd. “The American public looked at it and said, ‘I do not want that.’ ”

He thinks the other candidates don’t know how to deal with Trump. “They should treat him like an alien visitor,” he said, “and, like judo, use his own weight — in this case, his self-absorption and hair-trigger reactions — against him.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2020election; dynasties; election2016; election2020; grifters; nyt; presidenttrump; whiteprivilege
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To: SpeakerToAnimals

< “Trump knows where all the skeletons are buried.”

Yep, exactly. That’s why they fear him. And he appears not to be afraid to prosecute the whole bunch.


21 posted on 08/29/2015 4:50:00 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Red Steel

He does write like a poofter. And reminds us that both Hillary! and JEB! have to put exclamation marks at the ends of their names to remind us they aren’t as dull as mud hens.


22 posted on 08/29/2015 4:50:52 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: MUDDOG
George Herschel Walker Bush.

Prescott Bush married up. His father-in-law was George Herbert Walker Bush, a wealthy banker. Prescott named his first son after his father-in-law, George Herbert Walker Bush. George HW Bush named his first son, George Walker Bush.

23 posted on 08/29/2015 4:51:41 PM PDT by Vic S
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To: Vic S

I like Hershel Walker better.


24 posted on 08/29/2015 4:52:33 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Vic S
Prescott Bush married up. His father-in-law was George Herbert Walker Bush, a wealthy banker.

Oops, His father-in-law was GEORGE HERBERT WALKER. duh

25 posted on 08/29/2015 4:53:23 PM PDT by Vic S
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To: Vic S

I read that Bar is a million times more wealthy than GHWB. He married up.


26 posted on 08/29/2015 4:55:34 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Ok, I’ve just been informed that CZJ is a tradition on Dowd threads.

Uh, she can be a tradition on any thread! So says I, so shall it be!


27 posted on 08/29/2015 4:57:17 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: ballearthout

Dang....that’s a freaking meltdown...over his adult kid not winning.


28 posted on 08/29/2015 4:58:10 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: RoosterRedux

Actually...before this Trump season, I was overly mannerly.
I come from a long line of Southern Gentlemen who would never crack a
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I thought you WERE a Southern Gentleman. You don’t talk about it either. LOL


29 posted on 08/29/2015 4:59:06 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (1 John 2:22...the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist...)
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To: MUDDOG

GO DAWGS! Is this a football thread, OH My bad. Herschel Walker and ALL that.., Did you know that spell check Has Herschel wrong?


30 posted on 08/29/2015 5:03:25 PM PDT by DAVEY CROCKETT (1 John 2:22...the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist...)
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To: DAVEY CROCKETT
Thx Davey. Deeply honored by your history.

We all have our family crosses to bear.;-)

31 posted on 08/29/2015 5:04:21 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. Mahatma Gandhi)
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To: DAVEY CROCKETT

We should’ve traded George Herschel Walker Bush to the Democrats.


32 posted on 08/29/2015 5:05:49 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Georgia Girl 2
I read that Bar is a million times more wealthy than GHWB. He married up.

From what I've read the Bush family is SUPER rich now. HW has been involved in the CIA and specifically in it's drug running for decades. He was responsible for the Iran-Contra stuff and mostly the cocaine coming back from central America. They own so much land in Argentina that there they are known as the Argentinian Rockefellers.

33 posted on 08/29/2015 5:06:48 PM PDT by Vic S
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To: Jane Long

Yeah, I don’t know if it was at the same time as this outburst, but I definitely remember Bush Sr crying over the prospect that Jeb would not be president because of “W.”

I remember because I laughed pretty hard at this at the time. I’ve never cared for the Bushes, once I found out the history behind Prescott Bush’s Nazi connections.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

The family has had deep connections to Globalist One Worlders for a long time.


34 posted on 08/29/2015 5:08:33 PM PDT by ballearthout
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To: RoosterRedux

Forget the toxic blasts of fartrous fartoxide. Just start a tradition that whenever you hear the name Trump, drink a shot of Whiskey straight up!

Because Trump does not drink, have one for him!


35 posted on 08/29/2015 5:10:12 PM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Vic S

most people don’t know that Bar was an heiress. I can’t remember what company her family owned but she is supposedly from old money.


36 posted on 08/29/2015 5:11:37 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: ballearthout
Not just Nazi connections....first Treasurer of Planned Parenthood...

Globalist One Worlders, indeed.

37 posted on 08/29/2015 5:15:08 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Jane Long

There’s also a very credible story that the bankers and industrialists in 1933 tried to form a coup against FDR called “The Business Plot”. Gen Smedley Butler turned them in to Congress (fact) when they tried to enlist his help. Congress found that Butler was telling the truth about everything he knew, but the investigation stopped there. Prescott Bush was involved in the periphery.

http://www.npr.org/2012/02/12/145472726/when-the-bankers-plotted-to-overthrow-fdr

(Don’t look at wikipedia, it’s other name is the CIA factbook)


38 posted on 08/29/2015 5:21:57 PM PDT by Vic S
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To: Hostage

‘Ok, what’s she got to do with it?’

For a while Michael Douglas dated both Maureen Dowd and CZJ. In the end, he married Jones. Afterwards, for whatever reason, it became a FR tradition that whenever a Dowd column was posted, an image of CZJ must be posted early in the thread.


39 posted on 08/29/2015 6:59:30 PM PDT by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Refreshing!


40 posted on 08/29/2015 7:31:27 PM PDT by redfreedom (All it takes for evil to win is for good people to do nothing - that's how the left took over.)
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