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Bush Senior Backs Romney for President, Snubs Perry
National Journal ^ | December 22, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 12/22/2011 11:38:12 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

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To: mas cerveza por favor

If Romney wins, the country is likely to get sick of Republicans again like they did after Bush.


It won’t matter one little bit who the president is in 2013.

We’re in a Marxist dominated Oligarchy.

We’d better face up to that.


81 posted on 12/22/2011 10:37:04 PM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: fishtank
Bush Senior was the one who announced the birth of the bastard “New World Order”

When MBNA - at the time, the biggest Master Card Co. in the country - was in Maine - the money they spent on things not really related to the business was a puzzlement. Millions spent on art works - could easily have opened a gallery. Buildings and 'resorts' - lavish, expansive to the hilt - built off the beaten track, guarded grounds, etc, separate from the 'working' buildings, a collection of antique cars, all buildings were top level materials, Moroccan leather furniture, 6' round tables with embossed leather tops, Hugh resort-type lodges far from prying eyes, 'guest cottages' behind guarded gates, 3-4 story buildings with every room lit up even though they were seldom used except maybe twice a year for a small conference (to claim legitimate tax write offs?) etc...

Most every thing - like the carpets for a yacht, multi cupolas for buildings, cabinets, set-ups for their annual 'corn boil' etc, all done three times - spending money to spend money, like a Mafia money laundering operation.

The security was phenomenal - headed by a former top official of the FBI in DC. People whispered "Irish Mafia."

Every year there was a hush hush meeting of big wigs from across the country - far from scrutiny. Daddy Bush was there. That's when I first became suspicious of him.

(I had met Barbara previously and admired her intelligence and wit and genuine down to earth demeanor. She didn't act or treat people as many who, like her, had been born with the proverbial silver spoon.).

There were rumors under the radar about the whos, whats and whys of the people who owned MBNA...builders who worked on one of the owners residencies said his lavish bathroom was totally lead lined? He had a lavish mobile home with phenomenal security and never stayed in hotels.

After they left Maine, B of A bought all buildings, etc and promptly sold most of them, keeping only the buildings where people actually work.

Daddy B's semi-endorsement of Mittens today should paint "Establishment" across Mittens forehead where even the most unaware can see it.

I see the announcement as a plus - for Newt and, hopefully , one of many 'kisses of death' for Mittens. (I don't think they realize that people have woken up to the fact that the Republican Establishment Cabal is a co-enemy with the Socialists to us.)

82 posted on 12/22/2011 10:56:58 PM PST by maine-iac7 (A prudent man foreseeth the evil,... but the simple pass on, and are punished. Prov 23:3 KJV)
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To: Theodore R.
.....Bushes are socially superior to Perry even if their philosophies are similar......

Incorrect. Rick Perry has often said that GW was never a fiscal conservative.

"“George has never been a fiscal conservative. Wasn’t when he was in Texas . . . ’95, ’97, ’99, George Bush was spending money.”

83 posted on 12/22/2011 11:58:05 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: unkus

Tens of millions have given their consent to GHWB’s “New World Order”, even some who voted against GHWB. What was GHWB supposed to do; already Dole and Quayle had declared for Mittens.


84 posted on 12/23/2011 3:52:03 AM PST by Theodore R. (I'll still vote for Santorum if he is on the April 3 ballot.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Of course, the Bushes aren’t fiscal conservatives, but the American people think they were.


85 posted on 12/23/2011 3:52:45 AM PST by Theodore R. (I'll still vote for Santorum if he is on the April 3 ballot.)
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To: Theodore R.

I understand...exactly.


86 posted on 12/23/2011 8:49:27 AM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

well, the headline is not fair — he voiced his own opinion not a “backing” and he also said he liked Perry


87 posted on 12/23/2011 9:27:40 AM PST by Cronos (Nuke Mecca and Medina now..)
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To: maine-iac7

veeeeeeeery interesting...


88 posted on 12/23/2011 9:33:15 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Bush, Sr. came in 3rd in IA in ‘88, behind Dole and Pat Robertson. It was only a lunch at the White House with Reagan the following Wednesday, and his seeming endorsement, that saved Bush that year.


89 posted on 12/23/2011 9:39:06 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
What's that senile old coot think is so goddammed funny?
90 posted on 12/23/2011 1:15:45 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: US Navy Vet
Actually he is a Mainiac. Kennebunkport to be precise.

Same point though, he's no Texan, never was.

91 posted on 12/23/2011 1:19:19 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: sodpoodle
For those of us who have defended Bush 41 and 43 as decent, patriotic Americans -

One would be hard pressed to deny they are decent and patriotic. It's just that those virtues are way low on their list of priorities. Noblesse oblige and family self-interest are primary numbers for the Bush bunch. The rest is more or less optional.

92 posted on 12/23/2011 1:25:18 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Lazlo in PA
When Romney bashed Reagan (not Bush per se) he was just following the plan of GHWBush who slammed Reagan in 1988. His "kinder gentler nation" was a rude, un-called-for slap in the face of Reagan, who had just led us through the best eight years of the 20th century, and who had incidentally prolonged the asshole's career by letting him play VP.
93 posted on 12/23/2011 1:33:27 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard

Good point.


94 posted on 12/23/2011 1:52:31 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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