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https://mastodon.sdf.org/@CaroltheCrone/113414629680090580George W. Bush won't endorse Harris. Here's why: Harlan Crow sits on the board of the George W. Bush Library in #TX Harlan Crow has controlled Clarence Thomas for decades. The corruption is very clear. #SCOTUS #Corruption
bluestarone
(18,427 posts)I do NOT fear losing this election because of votes. I fear losing this election because of THIS Supreme court. I really hope i'm wrong.
milestogo
(18,390 posts)He's the ex-President. It shouldn't matter who controls dumbass Thomas. Bush could choose to do one right thing and be a good example. Follow your daughter, Dubya.
The Unmitigated Gall
(4,638 posts)Have been capable of taking a principled stand and letting the chips fall where they may. Not holding my breath for the shrub. Pampered child of privilege always posed as a rough-tough bootstrapper.
milestogo
(18,390 posts)I didn't know there was a "Bush the Smarter".
I always think of them as "Bush the Greater Evil" - George H.W. Bush and "Bush the Lesser Evil" - George W. Bush
JHB
(37,481 posts)milestogo
(18,390 posts)But I think that the daughter Barbara is the only one.
ZonkerHarris
(25,470 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,843 posts)FoxNewsSucks
(10,843 posts)but compared to his spawn he was indeed "The Smarter".
Unfortunately for us.
H2O Man
(75,848 posts)I agree with the two names you listed. But I think out of respect, we should recognize "Jeb the Refrigerator-Head." Just my opinion.
MadameButterfly
(2,049 posts)They are all three lacking in that area. Brothers and Dad.
The Unmitigated Gall
(4,638 posts)But if ANY of the three might have been capable of making a stand Id guess itd be poppy. Ive always felt shrub and jeb were utter spoiled-ass cowards. He got called Smarter because he could actually string sentences together, when he wasnt throwing up in Japanese Prime ministers laps.
efhmc
(15,052 posts)Cha
(305,907 posts)Blue Owl
(54,984 posts)He probably feels safe with these men controlling his life, and receiving their approval
NonPC
(405 posts)That's all he's done since leaving office. Nothing more cerebral than that. What's for dinner, honey?
Jakes Progress
(11,183 posts)satire of shrub on his ranch.
The only thing shrub knows about scrub is that thats what his daddy did with his service records.
Cha
(305,907 posts)Showing himself to be a coward to the World.
Dick GD Cheney Endorsed Kamala! Little bush doesn't want to make any waves with his current masters. Even though TSF threatened to Kill Dick' s daughter, Liz.
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madinmaryland
(65,213 posts)I dont believe shrub is capable of thinking for himself and may well have fell off the wagon or is suffering from dementia after years of being an alcoholic.
His family is probably protecting him from embarrassing himself which is why he is rarely seen in public. They wouldnt want to be accused of elder abuse. Remember, shrub is the same age as rump.
slightlv
(4,498 posts)I think painting is about the last thing he can actually do... he's old enough for dementia to have taken hold, too. And they're sure keeping him away from microphones. Even when he shows up for state funerals they keep him away from reporters.
D23MIURG23
(3,102 posts)AFAIK he hasn't endorsed anyone since leaving office.
I don't think I want his endorsement tbh.
Javaman
(63,207 posts)Butterflylady
(4,011 posts)Unfortunately, he is a coward.
TNNurse
(7,173 posts)FakeNoose
(36,066 posts)Who knew?
progressoid
(50,818 posts)Stallion
(6,613 posts)Laura is an SMU alumnus and at least was a Democrat before meeting her husband
Harlan Crow is more tied into the University of Texas although certain Crow family member have SMU ties including the Library
duhneece
(4,271 posts)
he vocally opposed Trump.
The look on his face (I forget the occasion) watching Liz with such pride and love blew me away
Upthevibe
(9,288 posts)Interesting................
SomedayKindaLove
(1,108 posts)I mean Jed Bush in the 2016 primary, sure.
Maybe they both have a hands off agreement?
onecaliberal
(36,423 posts)Self Esteem
(1,797 posts)onecaliberal
(36,423 posts)Self Esteem
(1,797 posts)Bush knows he's not even popular among his own party anymore.
His endorsement brings nothing of value to the table. He's a failed president who left office with a 25% approval rating. Harris doesn't need that.
Now Laura? That would be a good one. I'd take Laura's endorsement over Bush's.
onecaliberal
(36,423 posts)Self Esteem
(1,797 posts)I don't think it helped much.
I think Liz Cheney's endorsement has been far better for Harris than anyone related to the Bush administration.
BComplex
(9,175 posts)Trump had already made the republican party trash Liz, but Dick Cheney has the force of being a white male patriarch, which republicans worship.
H2O Man
(75,848 posts)as equal to having Idi Amin's.
onecaliberal
(36,423 posts)Idi is dead, and couldn't vote in the US. So Cheney holds those advantages, too. The problem is that some -- I'm not saying all -- independents find having Dick on stage is extremely offensive, to the extent it is a factor in how they will vote. I'd much rather that Harris-Walz had their votes.
onecaliberal
(36,423 posts)That's good. We need all of them.
onecaliberal
(36,423 posts)H2O Man
(75,848 posts)that having bloody hands on deck helps. But I will say I'd have loved to see W debate the felon, rather than his brother, Jeb.
onecaliberal
(36,423 posts)Policies. I will take anyone willing to stop that.
Lunabell
(7,073 posts)that's rude and demeaning. Also against tos. You should take it down.
FakeNoose
(36,066 posts)I know Dubya is going to vote for Kamala, because the entire Bush family detests Chump.
But he's too much of a chickenshit to publicly support Kamala.
Oh well, we're done with all of them.
AKwannabe
(6,444 posts)Any questions!?!?!?
whathehell
(29,888 posts)I've never been there but can think of at least three off the top of my head, so lets dispense with the broad brush, okay?
AKwannabe
(6,444 posts)Ok?
ultralite001
(1,188 posts)Leonard Leo et al have Bush by the short hairs...
Silent Type
(7,428 posts)B.See
(3,910 posts)some people are like DUBYA. History will remember.
niyad
(120,833 posts)as a synonym for courage.
Xoan
(25,458 posts)is also very clear.
brush
(58,159 posts)the family fortune going all the way back to Pescott Bush and the Walker side of the family, so he has no discernible reason to not follow the Cheney's lead.
Especially if he wants to play a role in rebuilding the rethug party once trump loses and is jailed.
He's old and makes no public appearances. Maybe his mental acuity is going too.
struggle4progress
(120,556 posts)and then filt the empty spaces by snuffin up coke
Polybius
(18,517 posts)After how he destroyed the country, I can understand that.
Stallion
(6,613 posts)JT45242
(3,004 posts)The old man was a partisan hack and a liar.
Only long after he lied about not being in the CIA in his director hearings did we find out that we was a major CIA operative in the bay if pigs fiasco.
The old man tried to extort prosecutors to protect Agnew (listen to Bagman later episodes).
The old man covered up the money to uran that got him and Raygun elected and the hostages held for several extra months.
WMD...etc...there is likely plenty of kompromat as well from shrubbery cocaine days.
They are all lying, corrupt pieces of crap..every one of the oil tycoon bush family
Metaphorical
(2,351 posts)He has struck me as amiable, but not really all that there, and that this has become only more pronounced with time. My suspicion has long been that in 2007-8, he fell off the wagon hard, which was one of the reasons that it was essentially Obama taking over to try to keep the markets from collapsing in the latter half of 2008, which probably won him the White House in October.
I don't think this is a case where he doesn't want to endorse Harris. Rather, it is Bush trying desperately not to get pulled back into politics.
I don't think that Bush was all that evil. I just don't think he had a very strong will, and was easily manipulated.
TSExile
(3,363 posts)That's my feeling, too. I never thought of him as truly evil or treating people the way the RAPIST does.
H2O Man
(75,848 posts)your last two sentences. When he was governor, my late friend Rubin Carter met with him to discuss a death penalty case. Rubin told me that Bush was "giddy" about executing people, and was the coldest person he ever met.
Oldvet
(67 posts)Bush and the DNC did some focus group studies if his endorsement would help or hurt Harris and decided to leave it neutral.
bif
(24,300 posts)JI7
(90,950 posts)makes a bigger statement with the saying " Trump sucks so bad that even Cheney is supporting Harris" . Becsuse Bush isn't really seen as right wing or extremist but rather as an incompetent fool and a failure as President.
Think of that time he was talking about Putin or some other thing having done something horrible in Ukraine but he said Iraq by mistake but even he knew what he did could apply to what he did in Iraq. He knows he was a shitty president .
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AntiFascist
(12,976 posts)while the 2000 election ushered in an era of voter suppression tactics and disinformation (leading to the war in Iraq), that have been adopted by Republicans, and now finally coming to the surface for all to see.
czarjak
(12,548 posts)Said W before. He swore an oath to it long before rising politically. They're all complicit. Period. But we're The Deep-State?