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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George Herschel Walker Bush.
i thot it was herbert
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I caught that, too!
Herschel Walker was #56 on the Dallas Cowboys and an excellent linebacker. Heisman winner with Georgia, I think. Won Texas Lottery when doing charity things for kids in TX and used that $$ for them.
Perhaps even strike a match to ignight said expulsion.
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That reminded me... When on a carrier in the Navy, at night we all wore only our skivvies. One guy set out to burn a fart and the flame set his skivvies on fire! Hilarity ensued!
Herschel Walker (#34) was a running back for the NJ Generals (USFL) and the Cowboys, Vikings, Eagles and Giants in the NFL.
She writes like a middle-schooler publishing a gossip blog. First thing I’ve seen from her in months. I thought she had - mercifully - gone away.
Now I like Trump even MORE!!! Anyone that talks FONDLY of Obama makes my blood boil.
He wouldn't be looking at this if he'd killed Saddam and broken his army back in 2001. Had 'em in the crosshairs and wouldn't pull the trigger. His stalwarts said it was considerations of Jenga diplomacy, of not wanting to turn Iran into "the decider" of the Persian Gulf. (That woudn't have happened if Poppy and Big Dick Cheney hadn't scrapped half the Navy.)
The Bush family was made by Pressy's figuring out that the way to making it was to give up selling shoes, move back east, matriculate at Yale, and become the Uriah Heep of hs Yale class, running errands and performing services for the fraternity legacy boys.
Yes, MoDo, it’s a beautiful thing, innit?
Herschel Walker (#34) was a running back...
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I can’t believe I had such a large brain fart!
For some odd reason I mixed Walker and Thomas Henderson #56. Walker was the GA Heisman winner and Henderson is the guy that won the lottery and is helping kids. Both were excellent players for the Cowboys.
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