I had already felt like GHWB wasn’t that into the race. The glance at the wristwatch was just the icing on the cake.
GHWB was done once Lee Atwater died.
The Bush family was a disaster for Regan conservatism...I voted for them and defended them but noe have come to believe that they were not good for the country but of course the alternative at the time both bushes ran was a lot worse.