Do Jeb Bush and W hate Trump as much as we do?

[Funtatlaguy]

Neither has said that much directly about him.
But since their deaths it has come out that Poppy and Barbara didn’t vote for Trump.
I just wonder if they will sit out the 2020 race or maybe endorse William Weld in the GOP primary just to take a shot at Trump?

[elfin]

1. Probably - but for different reasons.

They hate him for his effect on "their" Republican Party that diminishes them in favor of the more overt crazies.

[hlthe2b]

2. I think they do, but they will work well behind the scenes, I'd bet...

Every once in a while, something leaks from a comment W made when doing international speaking events... But, I don't think either he or Jeb want to become Trump's focus. I'm sure they say plenty to "trusted" staunch Bushies--the few left in the party.

[BigmanPigman]

3. I don't know about the "we" part

but speaking for myself, they can not hate him more than I do. My hate is at #11 (more than 100%).

[JHB]

4. Mr. "Trump saved me from 'worst president' rating" and Mr...

..."Turns out, NOT 'the smart Bush'"?

Doesn't matter. Neither of them will act on it in any effective way.

[Skittles]

5. no

no repuke could possibly despise Trump more than we do

[GeorgeGist]

6. Nope. They're thankful ...

he makes them look smart.

[Funtatlaguy]

9. Jeb still has to be wondering how he lost to him though.

[Buckeyeblue]

7. Their egos are massive. So their hatred might also be extreme envy

But they mostly look down upon him because he is rich (supposedly) trash. Rich Trash is like white trash, proportionally.

[delisen]

8. G W bush worked to get Kavanaugh on SC

Some of these court nominations -Federalist Society- seem to indicate some kind of relationship with Trump to get their judges in place.

Not much information out there on what the rifts in the Republican Party are. Tillerson seems surely to have been a Bush faction nomination. Condi rice vouched for him.

[pnwmom]

10. Reagan's children do.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/ronald-reagan-daughter-open-letter-republicans-donald-trump-095715451.html?.tsrc=notification-brknews&fbclid=IwAR1iw2c4rKviQZIs7ZUfsSgdnWY_wanWRgRwUYBqOY4dV2S1Y-psfW_64a0

Patti Davis, the daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, has torn into Republicans who remain silent about President Donald Trump in a stinging open letter published in The Washington Post.

Davis noted in the blistering missive — titled “Dear Republicans: Stop using my father, Ronald Reagan, to justify your silence on Trump” — how Republicans have claimed her father’s legacy and “exalted him as an icon of conservatism and used the quotes of his that serve your purpose at any given moment.”

Read the full opinion piece here.

This article originally appeared on HuffPost.

[Funtatlaguy]

11. I love Ron and Patti. Both very smart.

[customerserviceguy]

12. They send out their surrogates

Ana Navarro, for example, has dissed Trump every chance she gets.

And, yes, the Bushes will vote Weld in the primaries, and for the Democratic candidate in the general. Even if it's Bernie Sanders.