Bush 41 and Bush 43 Worry Trump Is Blowing Up the G.O.P.

MSN / NYTimes ^ | November 4, 2017

[SMGFan]

WASHINGTON — President Trump is not a favorite in the extended Bush household. Former President George Bush considers him a “blowhard,” only interested in feeding his own ego. Former President George W. Bush, his son, thinks Mr. Trump fans public anger and came to office without any understanding of the job.

And both worry that Mr. Trump has blown up a Republican Party that they spent two lifetimes building, a party that was once committed to removing boundaries to trade and immigration, promoting democracy and civil society and asserting a robust American leadership role in the world, according to an author who has interviewed them.

[evangmlw]

Needs to be blown up and then put back together as a Conservative Party. Swamp creatures don’t only exist among the Democrat Organized Crime Syndicate.

[pierrem15]

I think we're seeing some of that reform of the GOP as Corker, Flake and some of the other swamp amphibians leave a slug trail on their way out out of politics.

I hope we'll see a lot more during the primaries next spring.

[DoughtyOne]

Former President George W. Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, both criticize President Trump in a new book to be released this month, with George W. Bush admitting that, despite Trump’s political affiliation, he’s worried “that I will be the last Republican president.”

Both men led a failed failed presidency.  G. H. W. Bush was booted after one term, for a man with zero character.  He couldn't convert for the second term.  That's a massive fail against the likes of Bill Clinton.  G. W. Bush walked out of the White House at the end of his presidency, leaving behind very few jobs created under his term in office.  He also left the nation on the verge of economic ruin.  Not since the Great Depression had our nation been in such dire straights.  The national debt went up aroun 90% on his eight year watch.

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the last true Republican in the White House, but that fails to address the truth that the Republicans of the day weren't fully supportive of him.

Trump is the closest to holding true Republican ideals since President Reagan.  In some ways, he's actually approaching being better than Reagan.  I don't say that to denigrate Reagan in any way.  I love the man.  He turned this nation around in another time of desparity, following on Carter.  I will always hold him in very high esteem.

Neither G. H. W. Bush or G. W. Bush were true Republicans.  They were moderates.  Translated, that means a warmed over Leftist.  They pretended to be Republicans, and a lot of people fell for it.

Let's recall, neither of these men had word one to say about Clinton or Obama.  G. W. thought so highly of Bill Clinton that he appointed him to a lead position in the Indian Ocean Tsunami relief effort, in effect rehabbing his character in public.  He thought so highly of Obama, that he never found one thing to criticize, or if he did, it was done in such a manner as to have been almost invisible to the public.  None the less, both these men are plenty happy to attack Trump at will.  This is breathtakingly ill advised, and despicable.

George H.W. Bush also calls Trump a “blowhard” in the book, “The Last Republicans,” by Mark K. Updegrove, which was previewed by The New York Times and CNN on Friday.  "I don't like him. I don't know much about him, but I know he's a blowhard. And I'm not too excited about him being a leader,” the senior Bush said, according to the author. He also commented on Trump’s “ego.”

G. H. W. Bush, knows nothing about Trump, but he's sure he's an egotistical blowhard.  This from a guy that couldn't find anything wrong with Bill Clinton when running against him in 1992.  Egotistical?  Blowhard?  Why certainly not Clinton.  LOL   I am willing to grant G. H. W. some grace for his words, seeing as how he is so old and I think over the edge into non-reality.  As for G. W., not a chance.

“Wow, this guy doesn't know what it means to be president,” the younger Bush said. He indicated that a president should not “exploit the anger, incite it” but rather “come up with ideas to deal with it.”

How can G. W. say this, knowing what Obama did along the same lines?  How can he say it in light of what is said in the very next paragraph?  Where is reality in any of this?  This stuff is just unhinged.

Neither man voted for Trump in the last election, and George H.W. Bush confirms in the book that he voted for Hillary Clinton. George W. Bush said he left the top of his ballot blank and did not vote for Clinton because she has “bad judgment.”

I hope all the FReepers who trashed me for not backing the best Conservative president we every had, are reading this.  I've actually had some of them tell me G. W. Bush was a better president than Reagan.  G. W. was never a Conservative, and now it's clear he is barely a Republican.  Still, he's "CONCERNED!".  Incredible!

The White House on Saturday responded to the criticism revealed in the new book.

"The American people voted to elect an outsider who is capable of implementing real, positive, and needed change - instead of a lifelong politician beholden to special interests," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. "If they were interested in continuing decades of costly mistakes, another establishment politician more concerned with putting politics over people would have won.”

Exactly!

Pop and Poopie are a disgrace to the cause...

[DocRock]

President Trump is a great war time President, and we are at war, with Islamist, communist, the NORKs, the left and evidently, our own party.

[DocRock]

President Trump is a great war time President, and we are at war, with Islamist, communist, the NORKs, the left and evidently, our own party.

[FreedomForce]

Republicans like GHWB and GWB are why Trump is President. In a sense, they created him.

[AndyJackson]

Please clap.

[editor-surveyor]

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Bush 41 and Bush 43 Worry Trump Is about to call for their prosecution for their Uranium profeteering!
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[Phil DiBasquette]

G H W B yes

[mass55th]

I remember a press conference when GHWB was President. It was a joint press conference with a leader from a foreign country, possibly Israel. They were outside at the time. Might have been at the Bush Compound in Maine. A female reporter from CNN, possibly Jeanne Moos asked him if there was any truth to the rumors about an affair. At the time I thought it was pretty bad taste to ask that question when he was in the company of another world leader, and GHWB told her that under no circumstances would he even consider responding to her question, and that he felt it was a totally inappropriate question at the joint press conference. That was the last I ever heard of any alleged affair, until you mentioned it in this thread.

[GOPJ]

Removing boundaries to trade = trade deals that benefit the ‘elites’ while hurting the American People.

Immigration = flooding the country with cheap illegal immigrants to keep wages low to help ‘elites’ while hurting American citizens.

Promoting democracy - joining in every war possible to keep elites in the Military Industrial Complex fully employed - while killing off young Americans.

Leadership in the world = American elites getting their butts kissed the world over for giving away the hard earned tax dollars taken from American citizens.

Eff the insensitive elitist jerks known as the Bushes...

[thingumbob]

Bang on and very eloquently said FRiend. I am in complete agreement with you.

[GOPJ]

He also recognizes the voter fraud that has been going on for over 25 years and which NONE of the ‘Republican’ politicians did a damn thing about. When any county in the USA has 44% MORE people voting than the census shows eligible to vote -— something has to change. Demos have protested for years against voter ID, and Republicans let it slide...almost to the point where Shrillary would have been elected.

That's even higher than I thought - do you have a link?