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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsis texas republican george w bush speaking out against the nazification of TX repubs?
since his mob used to run the state one would think his mob would be speaking out. maybe he
was locked away somewhere.
budkin
(6,700 posts)They are considered RINOs and are not welcome.
Skittles
(153,150 posts)indeed
msongs
(67,395 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,133 posts)Skittles
(153,150 posts)I remember a comic saying that when that incident happened, they loaded Cheney onto a gurney out of habit
LeftInTX
(25,259 posts)inwiththenew
(972 posts)Or whatever you want to call it. Almost no one in the modern Republican party gives a shit what he thinks.
Polybius
(15,390 posts)Jeb: My brother kept us safe!
Trump: The Twin Tower's came down under your brother's watch.
That was spot on.
inwiththenew
(972 posts)I remember at the early debates the audience booing him for attacking W Bush. I was a little surprised, at the time, with how direct the attack was. As he started to climb in the polls and win primaries I realized that the Bush's control to the party was gone, likely forever.
DFW
(54,362 posts)The Bridge on the River Kwai
Saying, What have I done?
Polybius
(15,390 posts)I don't hold him accountable for not speaking out.
pecosbob
(7,537 posts)IMO Texas' main problem in the last fifty years has always been the huge influx of mostly poor white immigrants from the midwest and northeast moving south to avoid urban decay and look for work in a long death spiral to the bottom.