George H.W. Bush calls Trump a 'blowhard' in new book: 'I don't like him'

Fox News ^ | November 4, 2017 | Unattributed

[RummyChick]

Possible

[vpintheak]

So now the left is going to like the groping old guy again?
If the repukelican party dies, it is s only good for the nation.
Political parties just suck.

[DoughtyOne]

Former President George W. Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, both criticize President Trump in a new book to be released this month, with George W. Bush admitting that, despite Trump’s political affiliation, he’s worried “that I will be the last Republican president.”

Both men led a failed failed presidency.  G. H. W. Bush was booted after one term, for a man with zero character.  He couldn't convert for the second term.  That's a massive fail against the likes of Bill Clinton.  G. W. Bush walked out of the White House at the end of his presidency, leaving behind very few jobs created under his term in office.  He also left the nation on the verge of economic ruin.  Not since the Great Depression had our nation been in such dire straights.  The national debt went up aroun 90% on his eight year watch.

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the last true Republican in the White House, but that fails to address the truth that the Republicans of the day weren't fully supportive of him.

Trump is the closest to holding true Republican ideals since President Reagan.  In some ways, he's actually approaching being better than Reagan.  I don't say that to denigrate Reagan in any way.  I love the man.  He turned this nation around in another time of desparity, following on Carter.  I will always hold him in very high esteem.

Neither G. H. W. Bush or G. W. Bush were true Republicans.  They were moderates.  Translated, that means a warmed over Leftist.  They pretended to be Republicans, and a lot of people fell for it.

Let's recall, neither of these men had word one to say about Clinton or Obama.  G. W. thought so highly of Bill Clinton that he appointed him to a lead position in the Indian Ocean Tsunami relief effort, in effect rehabbing his character in public.  He thought so highly of Obama, that he never found one thing to criticize, or if he did, it was done in such a manner as to have been almost invisible to the public.  None the less, both these men are plenty happy to attack Trump at will.  This is breathtakingly ill advised, and despicable.

George H.W. Bush also calls Trump a “blowhard” in the book, “The Last Republicans,” by Mark K. Updegrove, which was previewed by The New York Times and CNN on Friday.  "I don't like him. I don't know much about him, but I know he's a blowhard. And I'm not too excited about him being a leader,” the senior Bush said, according to the author. He also commented on Trump’s “ego.”

G. H. W. Bush, knows nothing about Trump, but he's sure he's an egotistical blowhard.  This from a guy that couldn't find anything wrong with Bill Clinton when running against him in 1992.  Egotistical?  Blowhard?  Why certainly not Clinton.  LOL   I am willing to grant G. H. W. some grace for his words, seeing as how he is so old and I think over the edge into non-reality.  As for G. W., not a chance.

“Wow, this guy doesn't know what it means to be president,” the younger Bush said. He indicated that a president should not “exploit the anger, incite it” but rather “come up with ideas to deal with it.”

How can G. W. say this, knowing what Obama did along the same lines?  How can he say it in light of what is said in the very next paragraph?  Where is reality in any of this?  This stuff is just unhinged.

Neither man voted for Trump in the last election, and George H.W. Bush confirms in the book that he voted for Hillary Clinton. George W. Bush said he left the top of his ballot blank and did not vote for Clinton because she has “bad judgment.”

I hope all the FReepers who trashed me for not backing the best Conservative president we every had, are reading this.  I've actually had some of them tell me G. W. Bush was a better president than Reagan.  G. W. was never a Conservative, and now it's clear he is barely a Republican.  Still, he's "CONCERNED!".  Incredible!

The White House on Saturday responded to the criticism revealed in the new book.

"The American people voted to elect an outsider who is capable of implementing real, positive, and needed change - instead of a lifelong politician beholden to special interests," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. "If they were interested in continuing decades of costly mistakes, another establishment politician more concerned with putting politics over people would have won.”

Exactly!

Pop and Poopie are a disgrace to the cause...

[Cecily]

Not since they started openly socializing with and praising the Clinton Crime Family some years back. They are as much low trash as Mr. and Mrs. Bubba Clinton.

[al_c]

GHW Bush’s opinion matters ... how?

[Albion Wilde]

George H.W. Bush calls Trump a 'blowhard' in new book: 'I don't like him'

That's ok, House of Bush; we no longer like any of you, either. You sold us down the Open Borders River. Go pinch some illegal alien's butt.

[ronnie raygun]

Here is what I remember about this idiot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txukr5zgHnw
the new world order UN speech

[Impy]

He may be the first former President to publicly admit he voted for the other party (I could see Grover Cleveland voting GOP he backed the Gold Democrats in 1896 rather than McKinley or Bryan, but if he voted McKinley in 1900 he never said so publicly). For shame HW, for shame. You stink.

The name of this book BTW is “The Last Republicans Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush” by Mark K. Updegrove

1)Last Republicans? You wish
2)There is absolutely NOTHING extraordinary about a screw up son seeking his daddy’s approval

[fieldmarshaldj]

Yeah, I can’t picture President Cleveland voting for WJ Bryan, given the purge of his Bourbonites by the radical left (I would guess he did vote for the moderate Judge Alton Parker in 1904, and he died right before the fall 1908 elections, so he didn’t have to face the prospect of the choice of Bryan a third time - and just what were the Dems thinking putting him up a third time and for an open election ?).

Also, I’m not sure if LBJ voted for George McGovern in 1972 just prior to his death.

[AuH2ORepublican]

I’m sure that there have been several former presidents who voted for a presidential candidate of another party at some point prior to their death. I mean, Hoover was a liberal and lived until 1961; what are the odds that he voted for Landon *and* Wilkie *and* Dewey twice *and* Ike twice *and* Nixon? And did Ike vote for Goldwater?

And, of course, Van Buren did not vote for Democrat nominee Lewis Cass in 1848, when Van Buren ran for president as the candidate of the Free Soil Party.

[NFHale]

He should have called it “The Last RINOs”.

Because us REAL Republicans are going to make them extinct, one way or the other.

[Impy]

Hoover voting for they guy that lied in his victorious campaign against him would have been something.

Did Ike vote for Goldwater? I’d guess probably not.

JBJ not vote for McGovern? Perhaps.

TR of course like Van Buren ran himself on third party ticket.

There’s Tyler but I don’t consider him ever having really been a Whig.

So as far as I know HW is the first ex-Prez to *publicly acknowledge* he voted for the other *major* parties Presidential nominee. And for Shillery Clitnon of all people, what a disgrace.

W says he (W) left it blank, he likely doesn’t want to poison the well for his nephew George P.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Hoover lived to 1964, dying exactly 2 weeks before the Goldwater fiasco. I would say there’s an excellent chance he voted straight Republican all the way to his death. Remember that the Democrats had so vilified him and run on his name in opposition that it is unimaginable he’d have ever voted for one from 1936 to 1960 (plus, they were all establishment guys for the period).

I would presume Eisenhower did vote for Goldwater, despite preferring an establishment choice. He did do a commercial for his campaign, so if he was that disinclined, he probably would not have.

[VideoDoctor]

George H.W. Bush calls Trump a 'blowhard' in new book: 'I don't like him'

Hey ol' George... "Read my lips.. we DON"T GIVE A $HIT about your opinion."

[Bellflower]

I wonder all they are trying to hide with the mud throwing.

[Impy]

Jeb came in 6th behind Carson! Loser was going no where fast.

[GOPsterinMA]

P*ss on the Bushes.

[NFHale]

So was McCain in 2008, up until the last moment...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Says the pervert who molests young women from behind.