[laconic]

The Bush family would have been utterly irrelevant but for R. Reagan picking the Elder as his VP. Now people realize they SHOULD have been irrelevant.

[RC one]

From what I read in the the book, Jeb! and the Bush Crime Family, Reagan never particularly trusted the Bush family either and reluctantly picked GHB for VP against his better judgment.

[Yaelle]

Yeah, no... Poppy Bush was forced onto the ticket. He had already brought down two presidencies by that point and may have been behind bringing down Reagan... Poppy was anything but irrelevant. A true deviant criminal, just less sloppy than the Clintons.