Posted on 02/13/2016 5:20:07 AM PST by jimbo123
The 2016 campaign has bewildered and captivated George W. Bush. At home in Dallas, the 43rd president rises before dawn and reads political news online. He fires off emails to his old advisers to check on the latest campaign-trail Âgossip. He tunes into the debates, even though they stretch past his bedtime.
In private and among friends, Bush and his wife, Laura, express amazement at an election season that has been hijacked by Donald Trump. At a get-together last month, Clay Johnson, a lifelong friend, recalled that he and Bush said to each other, "Can you believe what's going on?"
"He, like everybody else in America, is taken aback," Johnson said.
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W is confused about more than just this election. He is very confused about that religion of peace as he called it.
That I can recall, he never ONCE spoke out against the travesties against freedom and the Constitution that Obama has committed.
Yet here we are with him apparently prepared to get out and stump for his brother. Amazing. Stumping for Jeb so he can do something heinous like creating some kind of TSA or DHS, say the Ministry of Happiness (MOH), Bureau of Illegal Appeasement (BIA) or some other gestapo cabal.
Stay out of it, W. I think you are a decent human being, but you’ve squandered every ounce of goodwill I ever felt for you.
This, to me, would be a negative, insofar as one of the main complaints is against the Bush dynasty. He changed to “Jeb!” To escape the Bush name, then hauls out Barbara, and W, and even his son, to campaign for him.
But it is no longer his time.
I can admire him for many things, but I agree with you. He needs to stay out of it.
We have a hispano-Bush, don’t know his name, on the TX Railroad Commission who is trying to steal relics from the group (Daughters of the Confederacy or something) that maintains the relics related to the Alamo.
He is just an enormous doosh.
Great posts BUMP!
I can’t even agree to that. W was a globalist not working in America’s interests.
My impression is that if GWB wanted to help Jeb get elected he would have been more involved already. He is conspicuous by his absence, so much so that his absence is perceived as not wanting Jeb to succeed. It might be better for Jeb is he limited GWB’s involvement. There is nothing like being damned to Hell by faint praise.
On the other hand, I see Jeb as Obamalite, the same socialist with 30% fewer calories.
Take your compassionate religion of peace and place it where the sun doesn’t shine.
The Daughters of the Republic of Texas versus George P. Bush trial starts in less than 2 weeks.
It will be very bad publicity for P. Bush unless he decides to back down on confiscating their Alamo artifacts.
W and his father lit the fuse and are too dumb to realize it.
Washington Post like Bush now?
And remember, Jeb was supposed to be the smarter, more conservative Bush.
[”Can you believe what’s going on?”]
Well that just confirms just how out of touch the Bushes are with the grassroots of our country.
Once neglected now we’re in faces of the all the elites and now they are scared to death.
Post of the century! Thank you.
This shows just how desperate Jeb has become. He has no more arrows in his quiver.
Now we have the spectacle of George W. Bush fighting the primaries not in opposition to but in support of his brother and I am compelled to ask, upon what principle? What principle energizes the candidacy of Jeb Bush? I can discern no other principle than a claim based on blood tie, it is within the gift of the Bush family to become president so, of course, a Bush candidacy.
Normally, family unity is praiseworthy but in this case I think that George W. Bush plays the hypocrite. He is the president who would scarcely fight his own corner as an incumbent and who witnessed carnage in the ranks of Republicans in Congress as a result. Here is a man who did not stand for normal Republican principles such as controlling spending but who presided over the greatest spending increases in the history of the nation until then. Apart from two disastrous wars, George W. Bush showed no animation for any conservative principles in deed rather than in word. Yes he kept the country safe after 9/11 and for that he is to be respected but he consciously refused to enforce the immigration laws or to control the border and thus he has practically wrecked the Republican Party and made it more difficult for any Republican much less his own brother to get elected. More difficult because there are more newcomers who would vote against any Republican and more difficult because there are more Republicans who would vote against his brother in backlash.
So the man who would not fight his corner on behalf of the nation when he was entrusted with that job as president of the United States, now enters the fray to fight on behalf of of a brother's forlorn campaign, a campaign which seems to represent no constituency other than fatcat donors and the Bush family.
I liked George W. Bush much more when he was chopping wood.
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