History Will Look Unkindly Upon George P. Bush https://t.co/6BqOq6Bg4g pic.twitter.com/fO5wnguJQ5
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) August 8, 2016
Because, let’s be honest, they have but one: Whatever keeps the Bush clan in the game.
Patrick Svitek reports for the Texas Tribune:
Land Commissioner George P. Bush, who has not endorsed Donald Trump, is now asking Texas Republicans to support the party’s presidential nominee.
Addressing state GOP activists Saturday, Bush said it was time to put aside any lingering animosity from the primaries — where Trump defeated Bush’s dad, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, among others — and get behind Trump.
“From Team Bush, it’s a bitter pill to swallow, but you know what? You get back up and you help the man that won, and you make sure that we stop Hillary Clinton,” Bush said, according to video of the remarks provided by an audience member.
Bush was speaking in his capacity as the Texas GOP’s victory chairman, who is responsible for overseeing the party’s statewide campaign in November. Bush had been criticized for taking the role without backing the party’s presidential nominee…
Since the end of the primaries, many members of the Bush family and its network have declined to offer any support for Trump. They include Jeb Bush, former President George W. Bush and former President George H.W. Bush.
The old bulls have run their last races. George P. is the rising star; he’s no doubt sad that Trump pantsed his dad so brutally, but business — after all — is business.
Remember that brief happy moment when we allowed ourselves to believe that ‘Low Energy’ JEB!’s public embarrassment at the hands of a manic carnival barker meant we might never hear from the Bush Crime Syndicate again?
ETA:
I’m already cringing thinking about the 2024 presidential primary debates, when Donald Trump Jr makes George P Bush roll over, bark, & beg
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) August 8, 2016
p.a.
They just can’t be content ruining states; they have to try to go national.
mtmofo
Hey John Cole: MT cherries have been available for about 3 weeks and the season’s just wrapping up. Talk to you grocer, quick.
Mary G
I remember when either HW or GWB were running and he was a little kid who would come out on stage to say “Viva Bush!” and Grandma Babs made a face?
Times are changing. They probably see George P. as the great brownish hope when the GOP finally bows to the demographic realities coming in the years ahead.
lgerard
What is really irritating is that 3 years from now Cruz will be portraying himself as the heroic conservative who stood up to trumpism before it was cool.
Meanwhile, everybody else will be trying to claim that their tepid support of the nominee was based on “faulty intelligence”
sigaba
@Mary G: That was 1988, for Aitch-Dubbs’ nomination.
piratedan
because we’d rather throw our support behind our OWN sociopath because he belongs to our party than ever consider voting for democrat… just as the founders would have wanted.
thank you, you may be the generation that finally trashes your family legacy of public service in service of a party of racists and intolerance of all kinds, like gender, race and creed. Congrats, you’re the perfect example of what it means to be devoid of American ideals.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@lgerard: I don’t know what will happen with the Bushes, I’m sure they won’t give up and maybe they’ll find people to give money to another generation– George P seems a bit green to be thinking about the presidency. But Cruz is gonna run into a lot of people who want it just as much as he does, and who can also claim to have have stood up to Trump– Sasse comes to mind, I can’t remember if Cotton has come out as Never Trump, but he wants it, too, and Paul Ryan, and Nikki Haley,… Cruz may have peaked.
Mike in NC
The idiot troll RtR loved himself some George Pablo Bush, our future Preznit!
? Martin
They really do have a problem here. Their voting base clearly wants Trump, not Bush or Kasich or Cruz. How do they hold onto these voters when the party tries it’s post-election pivot? This seems like an even worse version of the Tea Party.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Didn’t an elderly lady say “We’ve had enough Bushes”, before her family threatened to have her committed(or cut off her booze supply).
lgerard
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I loathe Cruz. but he is way smarter then any of those guys and far more organized. He has a very ardent group of true believers as well.
I think if the GOP field had been much smaller, he would not have rope a doped for the first part of the primary season and gone after trump from the get go, and I think he might have won.
Do not count this guy out, now matter how much he is hated
mike in dc
GP Bush had to basically do this. He’s in office in Texas, after all. None of the other Bushes are current office holders. P doesn’t want a primary challenger and wants to preserve his option to run for a higher office. The delusion that the Bush family name can be redeemed persists.
inventor
@Mary G: He was one of the “little brown ones”.
daves09
The amazing thing is that none of the Bushes are actually very good at government.
Yet they have all those deep pocket donors lining up to keep them going.
How anyone could look at Jeb’s sweaty desperation and think him presidentabile’.
But so traditional-other than Babs there are apparently no Bush women, certainly none who are allowed to speak
There’s only one thing to be done-meet you at the crossroads at midnight. I’ll bring the stakes if someone else will bring the torches.
Eric U.
I can’t see anyone taking a chance on a Bush again unless he works his way up the ladder. That’s not how the Bush crime family does things, they just find an open seat and buy it.
hellslittlestangel
Fuck history, I want to hate him NOW.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Time to go home and go to bed. I have to work during the fucking daytime on Thursday and Friday, so I need to get my sleep schedule turned around. I dislike working day shifts, but I guess it’s nice to know that I’m the one that my boss wants to be around at the same time the client is on those occasions when he takes a day off.
Calming Influence
I have taken to googling in quotes the first line of any seemingly bizarre Trump related story followed by “+Onion”. It’s remarkable how few of them are actually intentional satire.
amk
who gives a shite about these lil twerps? jeb! has already drained their shallow bathtub just leaving behind ugly stains like this jeblet.
Mike J
Just finished Stranger Things. That was way too short. What about the lost knight and the proud princess and the weird flowers in the cave?
Mnemosyne
@Mike J:
IIRC, they got picked up for a Season 2, so you still have a chance to find out.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: I didn’t completely answer your question in the last thread, I think the Bernie folk rented out Jonny’s for the campaign and still have their stuff up(there’s a sign about voting on June 7 in the window).
I’ll repost this from the last thread since it seems to be dead.
My adventure today consisted of the following:
Campo De Cahuenga,
Hollywood Blvd and Vine St. to Capitol Records(had to see the stars for John, Paul, George, and Ringo),
Hospital I was born in(I was BillinHollywoodCA long before I was BillinGlendaleCA, I also found out today there is a UCLA connection),
UCLA’s Vermont Ave. Campus(UCLA was at the current site of LACC, before moving to Westwood),
Koreatown(mainly pictures of buildings, mostly churches but also Getty House(the Mayor of LA’s official residence)),
LA County Museum of Art(I didn’t go in)(there’s a portion of the Berlin wall across the street and the levitating mass art),
The Tar Pits,
The Ross store on 3rd street(the reason we don’t currently have a subway to Westwood, or to the sea),
The old Pan Pacific Auditorium site.
Ruckus
@daves09:
You sound like you are trying to make this into a negative. For conservatives this is a positive. They don’t want government. They don’t want civil rights. They don’t want religious freedom. They don’t want women to vote. They don’t want democrats to breathe because if we do, they might lose. They especially don’t want democrats who might actually get things done to breathe, because then they have a greater chance to lose. No, they don’t want government, at least not one you can not buy and that everyone else pays taxes to for them to steal and which caters to their every asinine whim. Give them that and they will love them some government.
Brachiator
@Mary G:
Trump will thank George P for his support;then he will have him deported if he wins against Hillary in the November presidential election.
Ruckus
@hellslittlestangel:
No worries, I think a bunch of us have the jump on you.
cokane
anybody who thought the bush family was even close to done has no clue
Brachiator
@lgerard:
Cruz is all of the evils of Trump, plus mental discipline. I hope he never finds a way to become Mo likeable.
Villago Delenda Est
@hellslittlestangel: He’s a member of the Bush Crime Family; you’re allowed to hate him now. History of course will be written in the future, and it will not be kind to any of them.
Villago Delenda Est
@Ruckus: The only form of government they love is feudalism; they’ll tolerate divine right of kings if they must, but they’ll grumble.
amk
@cokane: yeah, who cudda forgotten jeb! and his millions and the gop establishment and his coronation.
I will credit deadbeat donnie for trashing the ‘powerful bushes’ meme forever.
jacy
Was cleaning today and had MSNBC on in the background (I generally completely avoid cable news, but I was curious as to what the prevailing idiocy was this week) and was quite amused to see Republican strategists Mike Murphy (Jeb!) and Stuart Stevens (rMoney) basically saying that the problem wasn’t only with republican pols not excoriating Trump but also a problem with the republican base. In not so many words, they admitted that the base is full of idiots, made idiots by the republican echo chamber. Video, if you can stomach it.
I has to ask, is our children learning? Maybe just tiny bit. Although give them 4 more years and they’ll forget.
Ruckus
@Villago Delenda Est:
More succinct. I like.
? Martin
The consistency that Russian athletes are getting booed is encouraging. Nobody boos North Korea. That’s got to hurt.
NotMax
It’s George P. G. Bush.
Just because he’s ashamed of his Hispanic heritage is no reason for us to be.
The G is for Garnica, his mother’s maiden name.
opiejeanne
@? Martin: Is N Korea at the games?
NotMax
@NotMax
As have mentioned in the past, he and/or his minions have gone to great effort to scrub the extra initial and name from the internet, beginning at the same time he announced he would be running for office in Texas.
Have provided links to before and after pages here several times preciously/
M. Bouffant
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Do post a link if you post any photos; these locations (‘cept Campo de Cahuenga) are all previous/current stomping grounds.
And yes, Johnnie’s was still open for Bernie biz a wk. or two ago.
Keith P.
The defection article brings up what I thought was the GOP’s most logical path. Following Trump would ruin them, so best to jump to the Clinton Express while it’s still early enough to get tickets. Problem is, GOP makes her out to be the frickin’ *devil*, so it’s hard now to do the sensible thing (abandon this cycle while helping to embarrass Trump enough to where he never comes back). Take what you can get. Of course, few will do it, but it is reassuring to see that there are a few who will (every little bit will make a Trump loss that much bigger)
Just One More Canuck
@NotMax: If he ever does run for president (or senator, or dog catcher), the first questions at his press conference should be, “why did you drop your mother’s surname from your name? Are you ashamed of your heritage?”
rikyrah
@NotMax:
I know that you tell the truth, but that just disgusts me, for the insult that it is to his mother.
SFAW
@hellslittlestangel:
History does not require that you wait, you know.
SFAW
@NotMax:
That, plus he changed the “P” from its original PinchePendejo.
But — and FSM may smite me for writing this — at least his Uncle W had the “family honor” (so to speak) to go after the guy who insulted his own father.
Maybe PinchePendejo will also offer to go “mano a mano” con su padre, tambien.
ETA: Moderation? No naked links. Spanish? Bad words? W?
low-tech cyclist
@Villago Delenda Est:
Well put.
What amuses me is that George P. is boarding the S.S. Trump at the point where it’s already hit the iceberg and everyone with any sense is headed to the lifeboats. It’s like his sense of timing is inverted.
I really believe the Bush syndicate’s luck has finally run out. George P. may have been able to win a statewide race for Land Commissioner, whatever the hell that is, but nobody’s gonna step out of his way to let him be Senator or Governor.
Mary
This makes me wonder if the internal polling in Texas is a lot closer than anyone expected.
Robert Sneddon
@low-tech cyclist:
George Prescott Garnica Bush has ticked off one of the necessary preliminary boxes for a Presidential run; he’s been a serving soldier in a war zone, having learned the lesson of his uncle the deserting coward. Being elected to Land Commissioner is an obvious stepping-stone to the Governorship of Bushland aka Texas and that’s the springboard that will put him into a race for the Presidency in another decade or so. Embarrassingly though Texas is trending blue and by the time he makes his run it might be too late, unless he pivots and becomes a Democrat.
No-one will LET him be Texas Governor though in the same way no-one LETS a Kennedy become a Massachusetts Senator. It’s just the party decides they are obviously the best candidate for the post by sheer coincidence. It’s the American way.
Dadadadadadada
@piratedan: The first generation of the Bush family to trash the family legacy was at least 3 generations ago: Senator Prescott Bush, who plotted to violently overthrow FDR. HW, W and JEB also did not cover themselves in glory, and George P. is doing this now, so it’s easily arguable that they have no family legacy of public service.