W is confused about more than just this election. He is very confused about that religion of peace as he called it.
That I can recall, he never ONCE spoke out against the travesties against freedom and the Constitution that Obama has committed.
Yet here we are with him apparently prepared to get out and stump for his brother. Amazing. Stumping for Jeb so he can do something heinous like creating some kind of TSA or DHS, say the Ministry of Happiness (MOH), Bureau of Illegal Appeasement (BIA) or some other gestapo cabal.
Stay out of it, W. I think you are a decent human being, but you’ve squandered every ounce of goodwill I ever felt for you.
This, to me, would be a negative, insofar as one of the main complaints is against the Bush dynasty. He changed to “Jeb!” To escape the Bush name, then hauls out Barbara, and W, and even his son, to campaign for him.
Great posts BUMP!
My impression is that if GWB wanted to help Jeb get elected he would have been more involved already. He is conspicuous by his absence, so much so that his absence is perceived as not wanting Jeb to succeed. It might be better for Jeb is he limited GWB’s involvement. There is nothing like being damned to Hell by faint praise.
On the other hand, I see Jeb as Obamalite, the same socialist with 30% fewer calories.
Take your compassionate religion of peace and place it where the sun doesn’t shine.
W and his father lit the fuse and are too dumb to realize it.
Washington Post like Bush now?
And remember, Jeb was supposed to be the smarter, more conservative Bush.
[”Can you believe what’s going on?”]
Well that just confirms just how out of touch the Bushes are with the grassroots of our country.
Once neglected now we’re in faces of the all the elites and now they are scared to death.
Post of the century! Thank you.
Now we have the spectacle of George W. Bush fighting the primaries not in opposition to but in support of his brother and I am compelled to ask, upon what principle? What principle energizes the candidacy of Jeb Bush? I can discern no other principle than a claim based on blood tie, it is within the gift of the Bush family to become president so, of course, a Bush candidacy.
Normally, family unity is praiseworthy but in this case I think that George W. Bush plays the hypocrite. He is the president who would scarcely fight his own corner as an incumbent and who witnessed carnage in the ranks of Republicans in Congress as a result. Here is a man who did not stand for normal Republican principles such as controlling spending but who presided over the greatest spending increases in the history of the nation until then. Apart from two disastrous wars, George W. Bush showed no animation for any conservative principles in deed rather than in word. Yes he kept the country safe after 9/11 and for that he is to be respected but he consciously refused to enforce the immigration laws or to control the border and thus he has practically wrecked the Republican Party and made it more difficult for any Republican much less his own brother to get elected. More difficult because there are more newcomers who would vote against any Republican and more difficult because there are more Republicans who would vote against his brother in backlash.
So the man who would not fight his corner on behalf of the nation when he was entrusted with that job as president of the United States, now enters the fray to fight on behalf of of a brother's forlorn campaign, a campaign which seems to represent no constituency other than fatcat donors and the Bush family.
I liked George W. Bush much more when he was chopping wood.
Well, not everybody in America is clinging to the to the banister and clutching their pearls, but I can believe the Kennebunkport Influence Peddlers and their fellow global elites are "taken aback."
Getting the Bush brand back to where it can seriously trade favors for big money is going to be a tall order, what with Jeb(!) stinking up the room and Obama cutting the military to the point where there's nobody left for the Bushes and McCains to rent to the Saudis. Dubya has his work cut out for him.
Mr. niteowl77
GWB:
*Signed the No Child Left Behind Act reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and supporting standards-based education reform.
*Signed the USA PATRIOT Act enhancing law enforcement investigatory tools related to terrorism, and established the Department of Homeland Security.
* Enacted Medicare Part D into law and vetoed State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) legislation expanding federally funded health care benefits.
* Implemented several free trade agreements that screwed the american worker.
* Championed comprehensive immigration reform.
He was nothing short of a failure IMO.
Did anyone notice this way down in the article:
‘Previously unreported, however, is that the former first lady also worked the phones on her son’s behalf. As her friends knocked on doors in New Hampshire last weekend, if they found an undecided voter, they would call the family matriarch back in Houston and put her on the phone. In many cases, she sealed the deal.’
Can’t you just see Jeb! dealing with Putin that way?!?!
Just love that graphic.