The reason George W. Bush won't endorse Kamala.

[onecaliberal]

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@CaroltheCrone/113414629680090580

George W. Bush won't endorse Harris.
 Here's why: Harlan Crow sits on the board of the George W. Bush Library in #TX 
Harlan Crow has controlled Clarence Thomas for decades.
The corruption is very clear.
 #SCOTUS #Corruption

[bluestarone]

1. Actually THIS is the bullshit i worry about.

I do NOT fear losing this election because of votes. I fear losing this election because of THIS Supreme court. I really hope i'm wrong.

[milestogo]

2. He could go first.

He's the ex-President. It shouldn't matter who controls dumbass Thomas. Bush could choose to do one right thing and be a good example. Follow your daughter, Dubya.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. Bush the Smarter I think might

Have been capable of taking a principled stand and letting the chips fall where they may. Not holding my breath for the shrub. Pampered child of privilege always posed as a rough-tough bootstrapper.

[milestogo]

5. Who is Bush the Smarter? Jeb?

I didn't know there was a "Bush the Smarter".

I always think of them as "Bush the Greater Evil" - George H.W. Bush and "Bush the Lesser Evil" - George W. Bush

[JHB]

11. I know, right? Didn't Jeb prove that there's no such thing as "the smart Bush"?

[milestogo]

13. Could be Laura, then.

But I think that the daughter Barbara is the only one.

[ZonkerHarris]

21. Please clap for this.

[FoxNewsSucks]

36. yep

[FoxNewsSucks]

37. HW was the greater evil, no doubt.

but compared to his spawn he was indeed "The Smarter".

Unfortunately for us.

[H2O Man]

43. "You forgot Poland ......."

I agree with the two names you listed. But I think out of respect, we should recognize "Jeb the Refrigerator-Head." Just my opinion.

[MadameButterfly]

53. Smart doesnt mean principled

They are all three lacking in that area. Brothers and Dad.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

57. You're likely right.

But if ANY of the three might have been capable of making a stand I’d guess it’d be poppy. I’ve always felt shrub and jeb were utter spoiled-ass cowards. He got called “Smarter” because he could actually string sentences together, when he wasn’t throwing up in Japanese Prime minister’s laps.

[efhmc]

4. When the repugs came in took over my state, all honor flew out the window.

[Cha]

6. bush is Controlled.. not a free man.

[Blue Owl]

8. And he's too feeble-minded to even want his own independence

He probably feels ‘safe’ with these men controlling his life, and receiving their approval…

[NonPC]

12. He Just Wants to Clear Scrub

That's all he's done since leaving office. Nothing more cerebral than that. What's for dinner, honey?

[Jakes Progress]

16. Did you ever see Will Farrel's

satire of shrub on his “ranch”.

The only thing shrub knows about scrub is that that’s what his daddy did with his service records.

[Cha]

14. Yeah, in the meantime he's

Showing himself to be a coward to the World.

Dick GD Cheney Endorsed Kamala! Little bush doesn't want to make any waves with his current masters. Even though TSF threatened to Kill Dick' s daughter, Liz.

🕯️🕊️💙🌊🇺🇸🌈

[madinmaryland]

30. Shrub's current "masters" are the ones feeding him and changing his diapers.

I don’t believe shrub is capable of thinking for himself and may well have fell off the wagon or is suffering from dementia after years of being an alcoholic.

His family is probably protecting him from embarrassing himself which is why he is rarely seen in public. They wouldn’t want to be accused of elder abuse. Remember, shrub is the same age as rump.

[slightlv]

17. I'm thinking you're on to something here...

I think painting is about the last thing he can actually do... he's old enough for dementia to have taken hold, too. And they're sure keeping him away from microphones. Even when he shows up for state funerals they keep him away from reporters.

[D23MIURG23]

7. I assumed it was because he left office with a 24% approval rating and he didn't want to sabotage her.

AFAIK he hasn't endorsed anyone since leaving office.

I don't think I want his endorsement tbh.

[Javaman]

9. Aka he's is a coward like always. nt

[Butterflylady]

10. Bush owes the democrats after he lied us into war.

Unfortunately, he is a coward.

[TNNurse]

18. Coward indeed.

[FakeNoose]

24. It's funnynow looking back ... Dick Cheney is the one with principles

Who knew?

[progressoid]

42. Nah, I think Dick is just trying to save the Republican brand he helped build.

[Stallion]

47. Dick Cheney, The Hunts, The Perots, Laura Bush Have All Served on the SMU Board--SMU Does Not Lack for Billionaires

Laura is an SMU alumnus and at least was a Democrat before meeting her husband

Harlan Crow is more tied into the University of Texas although certain Crow family member have SMU ties including the Library

[duhneece]

69. I think Cheney loves his daughter and that's the only reason why

…he vocally opposed Trump.
The look on his face (I forget the occasion) watching Liz with such pride and love blew me away

[Upthevibe]

15. onecaliberal...........

Interesting................

[SomedayKindaLove]

19. Does Trump ever mention any Bush?

I mean Jed Bush in the 2016 primary, sure.

Maybe they both have a hands off agreement?

[onecaliberal]

20. Never. Daddy war bucks won't have it. Dump understands money.

[Self Esteem]

22. Maybe he doesn't endorse because he knows his endorsement might actually hurt Harris.

[onecaliberal]

23. Sure, Jan.

[Self Esteem]

25. Bush knows he's not popular.

Bush knows he's not even popular among his own party anymore.

His endorsement brings nothing of value to the table. He's a failed president who left office with a 25% approval rating. Harris doesn't need that.

Now Laura? That would be a good one. I'd take Laura's endorsement over Bush's.

[onecaliberal]

26. Didn't stop Cheney or any of the other republicans. It's funny that ppl give a war criminal the benefit of the doubt.

[Self Esteem]

27. I wasn't a fan of Cheney's endorsement, either.

I don't think it helped much.

I think Liz Cheney's endorsement has been far better for Harris than anyone related to the Bush administration.

[BComplex]

68. I think Dick Cheney's endorsement helped put some anti-trump republicans over the line for Harris.

Trump had already made the republican party trash Liz, but Dick Cheney has the force of being a white male patriarch, which republicans worship.

[H2O Man]

44. I think of Dick's endorsement

as equal to having Idi Amin's.

[onecaliberal]

45. I think of having their votes as holding to democracy. If they vote for her, they're not voting for him

[H2O Man]

48. Well,

Idi is dead, and couldn't vote in the US. So Cheney holds those advantages, too. The problem is that some -- I'm not saying all -- independents find having Dick on stage is extremely offensive, to the extent it is a factor in how they will vote. I'd much rather that Harris-Walz had their votes.

[onecaliberal]

50. Based on the early vote. Indies are breaking for the Vice President.

[H2O Man]

59. Right!

That's good. We need all of them.

[onecaliberal]

62. We need all hands on deck. Which was the original point of urging W to endorse. /nt

[H2O Man]

63. I'm not sure

that having bloody hands on deck helps. But I will say I'd have loved to see W debate the felon, rather than his brother, Jeb.

[onecaliberal]

64. In normal times I'd not want a single con to help. But in times women are dying right now from extremists republican

Policies. I will take anyone willing to stop that.

[Lunabell]

33. Unless their name really is Jan

that's rude and demeaning. Also against tos. You should take it down.

[FakeNoose]

28. Harlan Crow may be the puppetmaster, but Dubya is nothing but a stupid asshole

I know Dubya is going to vote for Kamala, because the entire Bush family detests Chump.
But he's too much of a chickenshit to publicly support Kamala.

Oh well, we're done with all of them.

[AKwannabe]

29. He's a white dude from TX

Any questions!?!?!?

[whathehell]

41. There's plenty of good white dudes from Texas..

I've never been there but can think of at least three off the top of my head, so lets dispense with the broad brush, okay?

[AKwannabe]

46. Rather you didn't tell me what to do

Ok?

[ultralite001]

31. The cabal of

Leonard Leo et al have Bush by the short hairs...

[Silent Type]

32. You might be right, but Crow endorsed Haley. He might be on trump's hit list.

[B.See]

34. Some people have the balls to do the RIGHT thing, and

some people are like DUBYA. History will remember.

[niyad]

54. Sighhhhhh. I long for the day when a slang for male genitalia is not used

as a synonym for courage.

[Xoan]

35. The chickenshitedness ...

is also very clear.

[brush]

38. Dubya can't be hurting for money. He and syblings inherited...

the family fortune going all the way back to Pescott Bush and the Walker side of the family, so he has no discernible reason to not follow the Cheney's lead.

Especially if he wants to play a role in rebuilding the rethug party once trump loses and is jailed.

He's old and makes no public appearances. Maybe his mental acuity is going too.

[struggle4progress]

39. That pore dude shrunked his brane years ago by drinkin too mush

and then filt the empty spaces by snuffin up coke

[Polybius]

40. I just think that he wants nothing to do with politics

After how he destroyed the country, I can understand that.

[Stallion]

49. I Agree pretty much all he does now is Paint and Attend SMU Football and Basketball Games

[JT45242]

51. Corruption runs deep in the bush family, all the way to Agnew days and before

The old man was a partisan hack and a liar.

Only long after he lied about not being in the CIA in his director hearings did we find out that we was a major CIA operative in the bay if pigs fiasco.

The old man tried to extort prosecutors to protect Agnew (listen to Bagman later episodes).

The old man covered up the money to uran that got him and Raygun elected and the hostages held for several extra months.

WMD...etc...there is likely plenty of kompromat as well from shrubbery cocaine days.

They are all lying, corrupt pieces of crap..every one of the oil tycoon bush family

[Metaphorical]

52. Every time I've seen W in public in the last decade

He has struck me as amiable, but not really all that there, and that this has become only more pronounced with time. My suspicion has long been that in 2007-8, he fell off the wagon hard, which was one of the reasons that it was essentially Obama taking over to try to keep the markets from collapsing in the latter half of 2008, which probably won him the White House in October.

I don't think this is a case where he doesn't want to endorse Harris. Rather, it is Bush trying desperately not to get pulled back into politics.

I don't think that Bush was all that evil. I just don't think he had a very strong will, and was easily manipulated.

[TSExile]

56. Very astute perception.

That's my feeling, too. I never thought of him as truly evil or treating people the way the RAPIST does.

[H2O Man]

60. I agree up until

your last two sentences. When he was governor, my late friend Rubin Carter met with him to discuss a death penalty case. Rubin told me that Bush was "giddy" about executing people, and was the coldest person he ever met.

[Oldvet]

55. I honestly think

Bush and the DNC did some focus group studies if his endorsement would help or hurt Harris and decided to leave it neutral.

[bif]

58. Because he's a coward.

[JI7]

61. I don't think it would really help. And Dick Cheney's

makes a bigger statement with the saying " Trump sucks so bad that even Cheney is supporting Harris" . Becsuse Bush isn't really seen as right wing or extremist but rather as an incompetent fool and a failure as President.

Think of that time he was talking about Putin or some other thing having done something horrible in Ukraine but he said Iraq by mistake but even he knew what he did could apply to what he did in Iraq. He knows he was a shitty president .

.

[AntiFascist]

65. GWB descends from a line of pro-fascists...

while the 2000 election ushered in an era of voter suppression tactics and disinformation (leading to the war in Iraq), that have been adopted by Republicans, and now finally coming to the surface for all to see.

[czarjak]

66. "I'm a member of a Secret Society, a society so secret, I can't even talk about it."

Said W before. He swore an oath to it long before rising politically. They're all complicit. Period. But we're The Deep-State?

[Crunchy Frog]

67. Everybody hates him anyway, so I'm not sure that an endorsement would mean much.