[nathanbedford]

Bush has in the past revealed himself to be utterly indifferent, almost unconscious, to the slights directed at him by the Democrats and especially by Obama himself. Yet, it is also true that apart from his own election and reelection campaigns Bush has been equally indifferent to seeing his party prosper at the polls. In fact, one could point to his toadying after the likes of Teddy Kennedy as a pander to the media elite and the Washington establishment at the expense of his own party.

So it is not clear what motivates Bush to decline his invitation if it is not exactly as stated, a desire to avoid the spotlight. My own surmise is that Laura Bush pulled him aside and said "enough, enough do not go there and burnish the image of the man who has disparaged you up and down the country for the last decade."

I doubt if the consideration is that Bush ought not to burnish the image of the man who will be running against a Republican candidate for president.

[FlyVet]

Well, who knows with the Bushes. I'll choose to have more respect for him, for not choosing to draw attention to himself at this time...even though they choose to sidle up to Billy Jeff Clintoon as son and brother. That, I will never understand....the Bush family is a strange combination of class, dignity, and...not so much.

Maybe any one of us who spent so much time within the sick, dysfunctional, evil world of politics, would end up the same way. Somebody's gotta do it.

[BIGLOOK]

Let the fraud stand alone in the hour of his great victory. Bush needn't be there as a prop.

While interested in politics, the most detestable of sciences, and follow the daily changes like an addict, some things like this speak greater politically than showing face would ever do.

[Wolfstar]

I doubt if the consideration is that Bush ought not to burnish the image of the man who will be running against a Republican candidate for president.

Once again a self-style "true" conservative slanders President Bush with lies. GWB campaigned heavily for hundreds of Republican candidates, raised tens of millions for them, if not hundreds of millions, and helped maintain a Republican majority until 2006. Republicans actually gained seats in the 2002 midterm elections, and again in 2004.

In 2006 and continuing into the 2008 election year, conservatives turned on Republicans due to a variety of reasons. That is why Republicans lost ground in those two elections.

My tagline is a truism that someone of your mindset will never understand. Also, it is a quote from a man your hero, Nathan Bedford Forrest, fought against. So I imagine you aren't likely a big fan of Abraham Lincoln.

Indeed, it's ironic that you, of all people, should be whining about what you see as President Bush's "indifference" to seeing Republicans prosper. After all, Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. During Reconstruction, the Klan's whole purpose was to terrorize Republicans and black people throughout the south.