If that's supposed to be a swipe at me, you're wrong. Who said that GPB was a "loser" when he ran for Land Commissioner? If Abbott was such a "Bushie" then why didn't he endorse Bush when he first appeared and ran for an innocuous office?
-PJ
If Abbott was such a "Bushie" then why didn't he endorse Bush when he first appeared and ran for an innocuous office?
Dude, you know better than that. GWB personally launched Abbott's career in the 90's, and Abbott's been in the Bush clan orbit, and all that implies, ever since. Same consultants, same donors, same cocktail parties at the ROCC and the Houstonian.
But why not endorse? Bunch of reasons, not the least of which is that it's not axiomatic that two candidates from the same party, running in the same election for different offices would come out and explicitly "endorse" each other: it's pretty much assumed if you're on the same ballot, and of the same party. On top of that, you generally have to ask for the endorsement, and there are plenty of reasons that campaigns seek, or don't seek specific endorsements. You have to consider, asking for an endorsement, that the other guy's response will pretty much be "Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me." And since the land commissioner office is basically a legalized way to line your friend's pockets, someone running for AG might want a little distance between himself and any candidate for that office. But to suggest that implies that, as far back as 2014, Abbott was no longer on team Bush is just absurd.
That's not to say that Abbott is the worst of the bunch, he's not, but he could certainly be doing more than the purely symbolic steps he's been taking as noted in the article cited for this thread, and he could have, and should have been more supportive of Ken Paxton.