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.
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“...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.”
Wow, occasionally a blind pig finds an acorn. Dowd actually knows the truth about “W”as Poppy sees it.
We don’t do dynasties, W. proved the folly of that.
¡Yeb! is even worse.
Trump is a pioneer. And a hero of American pioneers reborn.
We eat pork and beans cooked over an open campfire.
We treat our horses nicely but we fart around campfire and laugh boisterously.
FU Poppy. Take your civilized family back to the East Coast and go back to your polite little country day schools.
GW’S dumber brother.
George Herschel Walker Bush.
I was just about to give Maureen a rare compliment, that she knows how to weave a good yarn, albeit with venom stained glasses.
Trump knows where all the skeletons are buried. He probably got favors for his donations. No wonder they all fear him.
You are so crude. I love it. Because you are exactly on point. And. I don’t have a better way of putting it.
It took 9 posts to get kzj pic up?! C’mon freepers we ca do better than that!
George Herschel Walker Bush.
i thot it was herbert
I don’t see that. Morford’s flamboyance is overwhelming. Dowd’s strongest trait, IMO, is snark.
;^)
I come from a long line of Southern Gentlemen who would never crack a fart around a campfire. In fact, they probably have never been to a campfire.
Change in the family tradition...Trump has got me thinking I might have a family campfire...and crack a humongous fart. Perhaps even strike a match to ignight said expulsion.
Ok, what’s she got to do with it?
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