Posted on 06/01/2020 4:01:56 PM PDT by Menehune56
‘Imagine if former President Bush, as Trump’s most recent Republican predecessor, backed a Democrat. Bush’s voice has the singular power to reach moderate Republicans and Republican-leaning independent voters, freeing them to walk away from the Party of Trump.’ That’s Fox News analyst Juan Williams musing in an op-ed for The Hill on Monday about what an endorsement from George W. Bush could mean for Joe Biden’s chances in the 2020 election.
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No it doesn’t.
I just learned the strike out. Very hot cool.
Bush thought he was more brilliant than Metternich.
would proalby piss off more liberals than it would woo Republicans also the last time bush endorsed someone they lost
What is CLEAR is that we will NEVER know the true stories behind the scenes. And, frankly, I don't WANNA know.
Do YOU have any ideas for a POTUS after Trump? Just curious.
I sure don't.
Trump will win in a landslide.
[That sure would seal Ws fate in the party.]
Ron DeSantis.
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He looks outstanding to me.
Another southerner...
Fake news, and meaningless.
“There used to be Freepers who practically WORSHIPPED George W Bush”
I was one of them during his first term. Not so much on FR since I didn’t sign up until Nov 2004, but I was a cheerleader of his. I don’t think he was doing a bad job right up until he was re-elected.
Remember his push to privatize Social Security in early 2005? That lasted all of, what, 15 minutes. Republicans had 58 Senators and had a comfortable margin in the House. NOTHING WAS DONE WITH HIS “political capital”.
Then, after a few months of absolutely nothing, you had Hurricane Katrina.
Bush handled the storm just fine. He let the media walk all over him and, by extension, conservatism though. The media, thanks to his soft approach, made it look like everything was Bush’s fault. The Mayor of New Orleans (Nagin) was worshiped. That idiot Governor of LA, Katherine Blanco maybe (I forget her name), despite crying, was labeled a hero by the left. Bush gladly accepted their “evil racist killer” award with glee.
He seemed all but relieved when Republicans lost the House and Senate in 2006.
The *only* time the guy fought back was when he was trying to ram amnesty down our throats (”See you at the signin’.”)
I was in my late 20s / early 30s during his Presidency ... I felt used after he left.
You have every single right to remind anyone that was a Bush sycophant here on this forum what he really was :-). You were certainly right in the end. I learned that there wouldn’t have been any difference if Kerry would have won in 2004 (I will still maintain that it was better to have Bush as POTUS during 9/11 than the idiot Gore ... however, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that the elections since HW Bush in 1992 were all fixed at the outset).
Juan Williams dreams.
Of course they love him. He is Not Trump and he is Not In Office.
“#41 Bush I won over Al Gore and John Kerry. Would you have preferred THEM as POTUS?”
41 beat Dukakis ... that was after real contenders like Gary Hart were removed from the race over stuff we’d laugh at today sadly. 41 was anything but Reagan and, in my opinion, formally kicked off the Deep State as we know it. I think he only wanted one term ... and that was to start new problems elsewhere in the world since the USSR collapsed.
“#43 Bush II won over John Kerry. Would you have preferred Kerry as POTUS?”
I really don’t think there would have been any difference WRT Kerry. I would have taken a frigging rock over Al Gore. However, Bush and Kerry seem to be part of the same cabal.
I am thankful we dodged the Hillary Clinton bullet though ... she would have been the death of America after Obama.
Yeah, he's stellar.
It would not change my vote.
In his first term I liked W. I wasn't crazy about him creating a new entitlement, redesigning out educational system with the help of the likes of Ted Kennedy, or signing campaign finance law while saying as he literally signs it that he thinks it's unconstitutional. But I remained a supporter. When he won in 2004 and bragged about having political capitol to spend I was curious what he'd do. He decided to spend the next four years giving us all the finger and trying over and over and over and over and over and over to get amnesty. Screw him forever. He was never with us, we just talked ourselves into believing he was because the alternative, that there was absolutely no difference between the two parties and they were all against us was too horrible to conemplate. But it was true. Until Trump.
Trump has exposed so many decades of traitors among us. So many years of termite rot.
He did expose a chink in Bush’s armor a bit before Perot did.
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