Office of George W. Bush Says Former President Will Not Make an Endorsement for 2024 Election
“President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago”
Now that former Vice President Dick Cheney has said that he is voting for Kamala Harris, all eyes have been on George W. Bush, but the office of the former president has said that he will not be making any endorsements.
It’s probably a wise idea to just stay out of it.
NBC News reports:
Former President George W. Bush has no plans to endorse in the election
Former President George W. Bush does not plan to endorse a candidate for president, his office told NBC News on Saturday.
When asked whether the former president or his wife, Laura, would endorse a candidate or make public how they will vote, Bush’s office said “no.”
“President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago,” the office added.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign declined to comment but pointed to the campaign’s Republican outreach efforts.
Bush’s former vice president, Dick Cheney, announced on Friday that he would back Harris in the November election.
“In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said in a statement. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again.”
Some people on the left really wanted this endorsement for Harris, which is kind of hilarious.
They are begging for the endorsement of George W. Bush now.
But sure, Kamala is cruising to victory or something. pic.twitter.com/MAG7oTwTnX
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) September 7, 2024
The Far left site the Daily Kos, which spent years calling George W. Bush a war criminal, is actually angry that Bush has declined to endorse Harris:
George W. Bush shown to be unpresidential as usual
This from NBC News today when it inquired about George W. Bush’s possible endorsement of a presidential candidate in the 2024 election, an election that could decide the fate of democracy and freedom for American.
When asked whether the former president or his wife, Laura, would endorse a candidate or make public how they will vote, Bush’s office said “no.”
“President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago,” The office added.
So, George W. “I Am A Big Patriot” Bush has declined to join other Republicans in fighting against the Trump brand of fascism…
He retired from presidential politics years ago? Oh, bullshit, he also was MIA in the presidential leadership role when he did occupy the highest office in our nation. His faults as a president are legion.
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Oh dear, I was so looking forward to his endorsement
the idiotic and incompetent Bush handed us Obama. I’m shocked
the funny thing is , the next time the Bushies get a nominee, they will demand that Trump endorse their candidate. That’s the way the Bushies roll
they actually hold out hope that they will get their toy back
never happen
I think 2022 was the last gasp of air from the House of Bush. W and JEB! tried to get JEB!’s son George P Bush into office, against the very popular Republican Attorney General in TX. Paxton defeated P in the primary 68-32. Thank you W for not getting yourself into the this election, following the steps of your dad, Reagan, etc.
Bush 2 was one of our worst, “The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace. They represent evil and war.
When we think of Islam we think of a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. Billions of people find comfort and solace and peace. And that’s made brothers and sisters out of every race — out of every race.
America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country. Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads. And they need to be treated with respect. In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect.”
09/17/2001Bush 2 was one of our worst, “The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace. They represent evil and war.
When we think of Islam we think of a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. Billions of people find comfort and solace and peace. And that’s made brothers and sisters out of every race — out of every race.
America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country. Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads. And they need to be treated with respect. In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect.”
09/17/2001
The posts here at LI – and events across the world as Muslims behave as Muslims – attest to the dreck being fed to us by our “leaders” about Islam.
No matter where in the world, no matter the point in time, one of life’s constants – find Muslims, find trouble.
What part of “ Kill them wherever you come upon them and drive them out of the places from which they have driven you out.” do they not understand?
(Quran 2:191)
George Bush’s stock has steadily gone down since the day he stood on top of the ruins of the World Trade Center.
So his not endorsing a candidate is like the old quip – if the phone isn’t ringing that’s me not calling.
Or, you could say, how can we miss you if you won’t go away?
For all the globalist, forever war, neocon, big corporate, big gov’t supporters this should serve as final notice of where the most viable proponents of these beliefs stand.
They’d rather defend the borders of Ukraine than our own. They’d rather be seen as ‘compassionate’ than make the decision to put the interests US Citizens above those of other Nations. They’d rather keep their ‘friends’ on the DC cocktail circuit and in the establishment than risk losing them. All about appearances for these folks and they believe they will be safe from the Cray Cray they are unleashing behind the walls of their gated communities and toney enclaves. They know you won’t be and they don’t care.
In the end they refuse to support a candidate who will disrupt the emerging oligarchy and the big corporate/big gov’t bureaucracy that are wrecking the Nation by open borders, substitution of DEI/ID politics for merit, swapping trans/woke ideology for cultural norms. They are at minimum tacitly choosing speech codes, censorship, erosion of our Constitutional rights, huge deficits, outsourcing of US manufacturing, erosion of the middle class in favor of continuing the 50 year trendline of lower real wages for average workers, an even higher concentration of wealth in the top 20% from asset bubbles fueled by low to zero interest rates and crippling inflation.
I am not defending the war in Iraq by saying this
George W Bush is an old man with no relevance. That said he did not censor the internet when he had the chance, and did act on small government principles as president just with the extreme hypocrisy of war time spending.
Bush also wasn’t the man who made free trade deals that was Clinton, Bush imposed tariffs in order to try and protect American jobs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_United_States_steel_tariff . He didn’t rip of the Clinton trade deals but to pretend Bush was somehow the one who did trade deals is to pretend Clinton never existed.
The big mistakes of the Bush administration was he thought overthrowing Saddam Hussein would lead to democratization of the middle east and deradicalization following American withdrawal, and he championed small government in a way that allowed leftists to start a massive purge of conservatives from the institutions of the country.
He was never a free trade absolutist (he imposed tariffs just like Trump does with little if anything to distinguish the two of them in that way besides rhetoric) and he was responsible for tax cuts.
Failing to remember the Bush years accurately means learning the wrong lessons. He simply wasn’t the person you described.
Above I am describing his actions in today’s political reality which absolutely fits…..but let’s go back to the ‘small govt principles’ you claimed and see if the actions of the Bush Administration match up:
1. TSA has 47,000 Federal employee which didn’t exist prior to the Bush Administration.
2. Patriot Act and all the govt overreach downstream of this horribly anti liberty decision
3. Creation of the inept and unnecessary Dept of Homeland Security
4. Iraq War policy, allowed AMB Brenner to fire the Iraqi Army which largely triggered/enabled the Insurgency b/c the suddenly unemployed Colonels, fearful of being shot after the political purge, took off with the weapons, ammunition and ordnance.
Bush came into office with a budget surplus, A dent level of $5.6 Trillion and a debt to GDP ratio of 55%. He left office with huge deficits, doubled the National Debt and increased the dent to GDP ratio to 68%.
Let’s not forget the role of the Bush Administration in the bailouts for banks in 08. Eff that crap. They allowed their Banking Buddies and Financial Services Friends to keep profits private but burden the public with the losses. That’s on top of Bush era regulators dropping the damn ball in the first place.
Then there’s the ongoing costs of Iraq Afghan Wars after their ‘end’. Worn out equipment, deferred Naval investment to support ground war which we are feeling now in a big way. Plus the VA costs to support the Veterans of those Wars. Then add in the boondoggle DoD program failures and over promised/under performing systems. Still feeling those as well.
All in all we ended up with more gov’t, less freedom, more bureaucracy, less liberty, higher baseline costs of Federal spending, bigger deficits, wrecked economy at the end of the Bush years. Doesn’t seem like a principled small govt conservative to me.
Danny, well said. Obviously, other do not like what you said.
One good thing about George W. was that after he was President he gracefully left presidential politics to others and the next generation. Unlike Clinton and Obama, he doesn’t keep projecting himself into the limelight to pontificate about everything currently going on. I respect him for that.
Like a frog in a slow boiling pot of water, I’m embarrassed that I didn’t catch on that the Bushie team was a Globalist outfit back in the early to mid-2000s. I was just happy that Algore didn’t win.
Like Jesse Jackson said, “Stay out the Bushes.”
more importantly the dailykos statement shows how our school system has failed.
when someone forces the government to NOT control you that is now called facism. the ghost of Mussolini thanks the fking idiots.
The Bush family has done more to undermine small-government conservatives than any Democrat organization has.
For the most part, politics draws those who are the least suited for the job.
Say you are voting for Harris without telling us you’re voting for Harris.
What about low-energy Jeb?
He’s still begging people to clap.
I try to wrap my head around the thinking of thes people who think that a Kamala Harris presidency would be preferable to Trump. Are they so blinded by their Globalist ideology that they can’t see that she’s a communist train wreck?
Is it because they are so wealthy that they think the ensuing mayhem won’t affect them?
I just can’t get there. It seems like their brains are wired very differently than normal people. Or they just don’t care. Very frustrating.
I’d really like to see some feedback from you all on this. What thoughts do you have on their mindset?
Trump dodged a bullet! Having Bush endorse you is almost as bad as Putin endorsing Kamala.
The Daily Kos is still around?
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