How many people supported Bush in the last election, 52 million? You do realize that some of those 52 million including Matalin and P Bush will be supporting Fred Thompson. Hardly a dis-qualifier in my book.
Matalin won’t help Dole after all (excerpt)
DALLAS (AllPolitics, April 13 [1996])
On Thursday, a report ran in the Washington Times that quoted a number of national GOP officials who said she wouldn’t help Dole’s presidential bid. The criticisms ranged from concern over whether she could be trusted to blaming her for Bush’s 1992 defeat.
“Didn’t anybody take notes in ‘92? Republicans must be ... nuts,” Wisconsin GOP Chairman David Opitz told The Washington Times. “Is she so brilliant that we are going to put up with a Mrs. Carville in our campaign?”
On the campaign trail Friday, Dole tried to distance himself from Matalin joining the campaign.
“I didn’t make that selection,” Dole quipped. “Mary Matalin is very fine. She’s a good friend of mine. She’ll do a good job. We’re going to win the election. And, uh. She wants to be a volunteer so. She can be very helpful. She knows a lot about strategy and, you know. We’re going to win the election.”
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1996/news/9604/13/dole.matalin/index.html
August 22, 2004
President Bush’s nephew, campaigning for overseas votes in Mexico on Saturday, called the federal policy of arming U.S. Border Patrol agents with plastic pellet guns “reprehensible.”
Speaking in a mix of English and sometimes-halting Spanish, George P. Bush said his uncle was not to blame for the gun policy, which has angered Mexicans. He instead blamed it on “some local INS (Immigration and Naturalization Service) guy who’s trying to be tough, act macho.”
“If there has been American approval for this policy, that is reprehensible,” Bush said of the guns, essentially paintball projectiles filled with chile powder. “It’s kind of barbarous.”
http://michellemalkin.com/2004/08/22/george-p-bush-disses-the-border-patrol/