Bush at 91: Irritated and Invigorated by ’16 Race

NEW YORK TIMES via Breitbart ^ | OCTOBER 24,2015 | Jonathan Martin and Matt Flegenheimer writing at The New York Times:

[Hojczyk]

Former President George Bush, 91 and frail, is straining to understand an election season that has, for his son and the Republican Party, lurched sharply and stunningly off script. And he is often bewildered by what he sees.

“I’m getting old,” he tells friends, appraising today’s politics, “at just the right time.”

These are confounding days for the Bush family and the network of advisers, donors and supporters who have helped sustain a political dynasty that began with the Senate victory by Prescott Bush, the older Mr. Bush’s father, in Connecticut 63 years ago. They have watched the rise of Donald J. Trump with alarm, and seen how Jeb Bush, the onetime Florida governor, has languished despite early advantages of political pedigree and campaign money.

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No one, it seems, is more perplexed than the family patriarch by the race, and by what the Republican Party has become in its embrace of anti-establishment outsiders, especially the sometimes rude Mr. Trump.

In July, even after breaking a vertebra in a fall that left him hospitalized in Maine, the elder Mr. Bush was fuming at the news of the day: Mr. Trump had belittled Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)41% of Arizona for being taken prisoner in Vietnam.

“I can’t understand how somebody could say that and still be taken seriously,” said Mr. Bush, himself a naval aviator in World War II, according to his longtime spokesman, Jim McGrath, who had visited him.

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Contempt for Mr. Trump runs deep in the clan. Two people interviewed, who are in direct communication with the elder Mr. Bush but requested anonymity to avoid betraying a confidence, said Mr. Trump had revived painful memories among the Bushes of another blunt populist: H. Ross Perot. The family has long believed Mr. Perot’s third-party candidacy helped Bill Clinton

[editor-surveyor]

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>> “None of the Bushes are remotely as shrewd as they think they are.” <<

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True!

But they are masonic Illuminati, that think they will become gods themselves. They run around ‘signing’ their fellow Illuminati at every opportunity with the three-finger pope salute.

They’re truly disgusting.
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[Mister Da]

Read my lips! No new Bushes!

[MUDDOG]

Father Bush sent his son to save them, but they rejected him.

[98ZJ USMC]

The family has long believed Mr. Perot’s third-party candidacy helped Bill Clinton

Duh. You gave us Clinton, you idiots.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Yes. I was never so disappointed as by his performance in office. I enthusiastically voted for him based upon his war record and political experience. He turned me off on politicians.

[Williams]

I am a great admirer of the elder Bush a true hero and statesman. I want nothing to do with Jeb.

[mkjessup]

I don't support Trump's decision to make those statements about McCain

Why not? McCain was shot down because he failed to follow orders, he was at the wrong altitude which made it easier for that North Vietnamese grunt to shoot him down in '67.

If it were not for McCain's daddy being an Admiral, McCain would never have even made into a flight trainer, let alone an A-4E Skyhawk because McCain was a lousy pilot and graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy at slot #894 out of 899 should have been a clue about how his Naval career was going to turn out.

Regardless, after being hit by the NVA missile, McCain ejected, not following procedure which is why his arms and shoulders were so seriously injured.

On top of that, there was a reason McCain was referred to as 'Songbird' by his Communist captors and that was because he sang like the proverbial canary and collaborated with the Communists, instead of just sticking to 'name, rank and serial number'.

The sonuvabitch should have been court martialed.

[tflabo]

Sorry Senior Bush but sonny boy Jeb has every opportunity and then some to have made his case to be the top candidate.
We the base are saying no gracias to the Jeb. This ain’t govt of the Bush, by the Bush, for the Bush. Accept that Jeb isn’t winning and that he should be because he is a royal Bush. Not this go round.

[Vic S]

I hope he knows what some of the American people really think of him. He also doesn’t remember where he was when Kennedy was assassinated (some people say they saw him in Deally Plaza.)

“Sarah, if the American people ever find out what we have done, they would chase us down the street and lynch us.”
- George Herbert Walker Bush to Sarah McLendon, a Texas journalist. McLendon had asked Bush: “What will the people do if they ever find out the truth about Iraq-gate and Iran-contra?”

[tflabo]

Read our lips.. No more Bushes.

[moehoward]

He isn’t alone, it’s obvious 90% of the candidates, poll takers and pundits are stuck in the old way of doing things.

[Mastador1]

In July, even after breaking a vertebra in a fall that left him hospitalized in Maine, the elder Mr. Bush was fuming at the news of the day: Mr. Trump had belittled Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)41% of Arizona for being taken prisoner in Vietnam.

Odd paragraph, he broke a vertebrae not his brain so what would preclude him from fuming? Also if I recall what Trump said was that just being captured doesn't automatically make you a hero, otherwise that weasel Bergdahl would be a hero. And Also if I recall correctly, McCain's fellow prisoners

[M-cubed]

The family has long believed Mr. Perot’s third-party candidacy helped Bill Clinton <<

True that!..as much as it pains me now...I voted for Perot and i suspect others on this site did too...

[dennisw]

Who was the first US President to utter these words?

“New world order”

answer: George Herbert Walker Bush. 10 months after the fall Eastern European and Russian communism
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On Sept. 11, 1990, President George Herbert Walker Bush addressed the nation and voiced those now infamous words before a joint session of Congress: “The crisis in the Persian Gulf, as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward a historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective—a new world order—can emerge. . . .” Bush the Elder is a longtime luminary of the Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg’s brother group that has an interlocking leadership and a common goal of world government.
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/bush_new_world_order_158.html

[Kenny]

There should be no surprise, Jeb declared war on conservatives in 2014, a candidate must be willing to lose the primaries in order to win the general. What the hell did he expect from the base?

[Brooklyn Attitude]

GHW Bush yearns for the glory days before the citizens learned that he and the Repub establishment were full of Shite about opposing the evil RAT party.

Remember, Bush 41 gave us the KKKlintons. Bush 43 gave us Obast@rd.

[justlurking]

Bush 1 lost because he flamboyantly lied to the American People.

If you mean the "no new taxes" pledge, I disagree.

We would disagree on whether he intentionally lied at that time. My position is: there's no way to know. He may have been sincere, or he may have just thought it was a popular campaign slogan.

But, it was a clear campaign promise. Bush broke it. He claimed to have good reason for it, but he didn't articulate it in a convincing way.

And like every promise to cut spending the Democrats made in exchange for raising taxes, that one was broken too. It wasn't the first time, and it wasn't the last. Both Bushes never learned: they were the archetypal Charlie Brown Republican that landed on his butt when the Lucy Democrats pulled away the football.

[Psalm 144]

He lied, and did everything he could to reverse the Reagan revolution.

He lost Russia, when we had a once in a century opportunity to make a real alliance with a worthy nation, rather than some lap dog, parasitical, footnote weakling states.

He started something he couldn’t finish in the Middle East which bleeds us to no purpose to this very day.

May he live just long enough to see his entire house and his life’s legacy in ruin around him.

[WMarshal]

Dear Bush Senior,

I think the average, bitter-clinger, patriotic, American has awoken to the fact that you, your inbred clan, and your fellow travelers leading the Republican Party despise them evem more than the Democrats despise them. I think that this is because we should be thankful for your leadership and we just aren’t.

I have to say is enjoy the sunset of your clans political power and f**k off.

[Psalm 144]

“If you mean the “no new taxes” pledge, I disagree.”

Disagree all you want. You are wrong. And NWO Boosh remains a one term failure.