Former President George W. Bush has no plans to endorse in the election

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

Sept. 7, 2024, 3:18 PM EDT


Former President George W. Bush does not plan to endorse a candidate for president, his office told NBC News on Saturday.

When asked whether the former president or his wife, Laura, would endorse a candidate or make public how they will vote, Bush's office said "no." "President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago," the office added.

The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign declined to comment but pointed to the campaign's Republican outreach efforts.

Bush's former vice president, Dick Cheney, announced on Friday that he would back Harris in the November election. "In our nation’s 248-year history, there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump," Cheney said in a statement. "He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He can never be trusted with power again."

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/former-president-george-w-bush-no-plans-endorse-2024-election-rcna170055

[dlk]

1. The courage of his convictions...

n/t

[Wonder Why]

35. Trump has the courage of his convictions - all 34 of them. Bush is just another repug weasel.

[JHB]

43. He could have used a couple of convictions from lying us into a war.

[COL Mustard]

54. Sometimes silence speaks loudly

I’ll give him grace on this. At least he’s not endorsing the Orange Anus.

I don’t remember what he did in 2016 or in 2020 .

[TexasBushwhacker]

59. I agree

He was an incompetent POTUS, but a decent man. He and Michelle Obama seem to genuinely enjoy each other's company. I think he and Laura just want to enjoy their grandkids in peace. Living in Texas, endorsing Harris could put his life at risk.

[COL Mustard]

64. One thing's for sure....

He could never get the Republican nomination today!

[GoreWon2000]

77. bushthief killed American democracy in Florida in 2000

No offense but your "kind and decent man" waged an all out assault on American democracy in Florida in 2000 with the help of his little brother/Florida Governor and his Florida 2000 campaign co chair/Florida Secretary of State. Several hundred thousand legally cast Florida votes sit uncounted in the Florida archives. Your "kind and decent man" created the Presidential election theft road map that the orange turd is now using to again thwart the will of the people. In addition, your "kind and decent man" appointed Samuel Alito to the SCOTUS who is now the author of the horrid, forced birth Dobbs decision that's putting women's lives at risk.

[dlk]

67. Bush lives in Texas, a state with too many MAGA extremists

I have no doubt his personal safety and that of his family are first and foremost on his mind.

On the other hand, MAGAs are no doubt fearful of Dick Cheny. If they’re not, they should be. Having him for a daddy allowed Liz Cheny to speak freely.

[COL Mustard]

69. I think that even at age 83

Death Cheney could still do a choke hold on them.

[dlk]

70. No doubt

[MuseRider]

103. At least

at his age he does not have to worry about his heart.

I cannot ever forgive him. The words Dick Cheney makes my skin crawl.

[Srkdqltr]

2. He's smarter than he seems??

[Clouds Passing]

3. Coward...

He and his family are quite responsible for the orange menace and the rise of the 4th reich

[onetexan]

14. Bingo, and selfish as well

[vanlassie]

58. Sociopaths stick together.

[no_hypocrisy]

48. Exactly.

Not being diplomatic. Not being neutral. Not being a statesman.

Coward.

For all the swagger Shrub used during his tenure in the WH and 9-11, his core is hollow. As they say in Texas, "All hat and no cattle".

Go back to your painting.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. He never outgrew being an asshole from his college/AF Reserve days, I see... n/t

[PJMcK]

5. So what?

W is an empty vessel. I doubt anyone would make their voting decisions based on his endorsement.

No one is interested in what he has to say. Frankly, he and Cheney committed war crimes and should be held accountable.

It's almost humorous that he was even asked for his opinion.

[moreland01]

24. Well, I was kind of hoping

That if Cheney, Romney, Bush, Rice, etc, would say they're voting for Harris, it would be giving permission for rational old school republicans to vote Harris as well. My brother, for one, (lives in Nebraska) is a really kind man. Does not like trump. Is all about properly funding the military. Is a solid team player. Kind of like Tim Walz, if he were a Republican. He just needs the right encouragement. Those people voting Harris might just do the trick.

[PJMcK]

29. I get it and mostly agree with you

Cheney’s endorsement is important because it gives permission to Republicans, like your brother, to drop Trump.

No one serious thinks much of W or his opinions. I doubt they ever did because they knew Cheney was the one running the show. I suspect W knows he’s a loser and just wants to live out his retirement in peace. Frankly, I’m glad I don’t have to hear about that war criminal too much.

Other than that, I’m all for reaching out to the non-brain dead Republicans and welcoming their vote for this election. I don’t expect Cheney or your brother to become Democrats, of course, but I’m impressed that there are Republicans who still want to protect.our Constitution and retain our democratic republic. We need two strong responsible parties to find the compromises necessary to manage this huge and diverse nation.

[Escurumbele]

44. "it would be giving permission for rational old school republicans to vote Harris as well" That may be a true comment

but a very sad one because people should not need "permission", they should be principled enough to do it on their own, but I do understand what you wrote.

I don't know anyone respects GW enough for his opinion to make anyone change course, same with Dick Chaney, but it would still be nice to hear he supports Kamala just because it would mess with the MAGAts brain, gives them something to rant about.

[Ninga]

6. Yes, coward. Maybe it's because he stole the 2000

election. Or maybe it’s because he agrees with trumplethinskins nicknames of his brother Jeb, or maybe he’s just an asshole.

[BlueKota]

8. I agree with the cowardice and asshole parts.

[GoreWon2000]

78. He's a thief!

It would be the height of hypocrisy for him to attack the orange turd for using his election theft road map.

[JoseBalow]

7. Thank you for staying irrelevant, asshole

[NonPC]

9. Ditto

His only positive accomplishment was cutting up dead trees off his ranch with a chainsaw when he wasn't starting immoral wars. That's pretty much his intellectual limit.

[Alice Kramden]

36. Excellent assessment

Absolutely perfect

[ZonkerHarris]

10. He was always stupid but hes a coward too. Fuck that criminal

[4catsmom]

11. cowardly, never a leader

a puppet of Cheney and other GOP capos. at least Cheney has the cajones to say he supports Harris. Maybe his daughter worked on him.

[LudwigPastorius]

12. "...Bush's office said "no." "President Bush retired from presidential politics years ago"

He's all about "brush clearing" these days...24/7.

[BeyondGeography]

13. A dipshit once said you're either with us or you're against us

Just kidding. W. was always and remains a poseur. His endorsement would have less of an impact than Cheney’s, who was and is more of a presence in old Republicanland.

[FakeNoose]

15. We know he's not voting for Chump ...

Small favors, I guess.

[Evolve Dammit]

16. Spineless, drunk frat boy. Always was. Paint yourself into a corner. PS You're a war criminal walking free. Enjoy

[EastBayGuy]

17. Well, well, well so Cheney has grown up to be adult but not Dubya

[Skittles]

50. please, enough already

Cheney is the same disgusting self-serving fucking asshole he has always been....it is LAUGHABLE to think that chicken hawk warmongering PIECE OF SHIT is "putting country above party" - IT IS REVENGE FOR THE TREATMENT OF HIS DAUGHTER, THAT IS *ALL* IT IS

[EastBayGuy]

68. I agree, I despise him too. I'm just astonished that Cheney made

the announcement. Now, take a deep breath and chill the fuck out.

[Skittles]

75. nope - I WILL FOREVER DESPISE HIM

I do not CHILL OUT over someone who never served but LIED THEIR WAY INTO A WAR

especially when people are now singing his praises like he is someone to admire

FUCK THAT

[EastBayGuy]

98. OK but it's bad for your health

[GoreWon2000]

79. Cheney's hypocrisy is on full display

He thinks he can have it both way, help bushthief steal the 2000 election in Florida and then attack the orange turd for using the same election stealing playbook in 2020 and 2024.

[twodogsbarking]

18. Former President Bush will not support former President Trump.

OK George you sunofabitch

[ShazzieB]

40. Yeah, I'm pretty sure he's not a Trump supporter.

According to the article, "neither Bush nor his wife voted for either major party presidential nominee in 2016," and Bush himself is quoted as saying he wrote in for Condoleeza Rice in 2020. It's hard to imagine him jumping on the Trump train as this stage of the game.

[GoreWon2000]

80. Thief is the accurate description

Since he wasn't elected by we the people in 2000, the accurate title is thief. Just ask the several hundred thousand legally cast Florida 2000 votes that now sit uncounted in the Florida archives. The orange turd is using bushthief's Presidential election stealing road map.

[Solly Mack]

19. lololololol

[CanonRay]

20. Once a coward, always a coward

[SWBTATTReg]

21. Last I know was that former pres. Bush, was still involved in helping wounded soldiers. I think he's still invested

in volunteering for various things, but I don't know for sure.

[GoreWon2000]

82. He caused the wounded soldiers to get wounded

in the first place with his Iraq disaster.

[NH Ethylene]

22. I got the impression that W was getting dementia

Maybe it was the way he was giggling with Michele Obama at some funeral or ceremony. I could be totally off base, but it would explain why the Bushes would shy away from any media attention.

[ShazzieB]

41. That wouldn't surprise me at all.

In fact, it would explain why he's keeping what seems like an unusually low profile for an ex-president.

[Easterncedar]

60. Yeah. Seems likely enough.

[GoreWon2000]

83. His elevator never did go to the top floor

He always lived off of his well known last name and a pro repug media who covered up for him at every turn. He destroyed our country and now he can just live off of the proceeds of his anti democracy behavior. Disgusting!.

[C Moon]

23. "If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. Hehehe." ― GW Bush

[GoreWon2000]

85. He put our country on the path to dictatorship with his 2000 election theft

and not we're on dictatorship's doorstep with the orange turd using bushthief's election theft road map..

[trusty elf]

25. ...

[Joinfortmill]

26. Whatever is left of his legacy just died.

[GoreWon2000]

86. His thief legacy should live forever!

[Mysterian]

27. Too busy trying to forget the thousands of people he murdered

May the cowardly fool burn in hell.

[Wiz Imp]

28. Still an asshole I see

[werdna]

32. Sounds to me like -

- the two brain cells he has just can't quite agree.

[BaronChocula]

33. He should have retired from politics about 26 years ago. n/t

[GoreWon2000]

87. Our country would be better off!

[Oopsie Daisy]

34. What a courageous man!

Fucker.

[wolfie001]

37. Spineless weasel just like his SC Chief Justice John Roberts

No wonder why he picked him

[BWdem4life]

38. I still have plans to piss on his grave. nt

[evolves]

39. Once a coward

always a coward.

[Nasruddin]

42. 2nd worst Republican president

That this useless person was made president of the United States is appalling. Worse.

If only he had stuck to painting.

[stage left]

45. I guess he retired from being involved in America's welfare

A long, long time ago.

[Xolodno]

46. Everyone screaming bloody murder should take a step back.

Of course his office is going to say that, even if he does plan to endorse Harris. Saying "no comment" would only make a larger media frenzy. And what if he did offer his endorsement to Harris, but her team thought it best he didn't? Cheney can point out to his daughter, but, W does still have a lot of baggage.

[GoreWon2000]

88. Never forget Florida 2000!

Our country will never be the same!

[Montauk6]

47. Now y'all leave Dubya alone now!

The man just tired havin' to carry that heavy crown as "WORST PRESIDENT OF ALL TIME" for all those years only to have to give it up on Jan 6, 1917.

Plus, I gotta pop my collar for this man... yes indeed, weren't for him I would never found this wonderful DU family.

[Scarlet Begalas]

71. Dubya

He only held that title for 8 years before the GOP, in it's infinite wisdom, found somebody even worse.

[GoreWon2000]

89. He was GOP SCOTUS appointed, NOT elected in 2000!

He waged an all out assault on American democracy in Florida in 2000. That can never be forgotten.

[Hassler]

51. Too busy getting drunk. Again. And again...

[Duncanpup]

52. Coward

[Irish_Dem]

53. Drunken nepo baby war criminal.

I never saw any pictures or video of him while he was president where he was sober.

What he did to Iraq is a crime against humanity.

Seriously doubt Kamala will lose one second of sleep over an endorsement from this a-hole.

[JT45242]

55. Never thought Cheney would be the one to put country over party in that white house...coward

Cowardly way of putting party over country.

This isn't plausible deniability, this is a chamberlain moment.

If TFG wins, shrub, you will still end in a concentration camp as a RINO.

Your cowardice may get many others killed

Dictator on day one will make an example out of you as what happy to the disloyal.

[Girard442]

56. Cheney has always been a man with a (usually evil) plan.

Bush has always been a boy with a toy.

[BumRushDaShow]

57. Shrub is Poppy's nepo baby

[Mr. Mustard 2023]

61. Of course the dismal Republicon failure...

...won't fight Deadbeat Donnie and help America. Dismal failure Republicon George W. Bush is a spoiled, drunken frat boy who botched everything as president.

Gotta fight terror over there, so we don't fight them over here. Freedom's on the march.

He got his oil however, and that was another 8 years we could have been weening ourselves off of the planet killing energy source, but noooo.....

We don't want dismal failure Republicon George W. Bush near us in any way because he botches everything. He'd somehow botch the endorsement and then blame brown skinned people and regulations.

Stay in your mansion W. Seriously - stay there.

[robleb]

62. a failure with no spine

before he was President
while he was President
and now in retirement....

Just another clown in the repug circus.

[Doodley]

63. Joe Biden had no plans to step down. Just saying, an official "no plans," doesn't close the door.

[jvill]

65. Bush's personal rep is more important to him than our democracy.

I trust no one is surprised by this cowardness.

The Bushes always considered leadership a blue-blood social status symbol rather than a contribution to society, like the Kennedys.

[GoreWon2000]

90. bushthief killed our democracy in 2000

so he could trample we the people and grab power for himself. His reputation will always be an anti democracy thief.

[The Third Doctor]

66. Coward

[Martin Eden]

72. GW's "plans" should not reach beyond a jail cell where he belongs for war crimes. He inspired me to write a poem.

What I'd say to his face if I could:

I'd like to say go fuck yourself
But that is much too kind
If you could perform that feat
You'd take pleasure in your behind

I'd tell you to eat shit and die
But you deserve much more
You should suffer all the grief and pain
Of your misbegotten war

Though I could never make you think
Or feel, or understand
I'll take solace when you hear your name
Cursed throughout the land

From inside a lonely jail cell
Dark and bare and cold
Where every day you pay for your crimes
Until you're sick, heartbroken, and old

When you finally leave this Earth
You fucked over oh so well
If there is a God and afterlife
You're going straight to Hell.

[Zambero]

73. Just as well

Dick Cheney (correctly) referred to Trump as an "unrecoverable catastrophe". Although technically sane, Cheney and his sidekick president will certainly not go down in history as having made the world a better and safer place.

[Javaman]

74. once a coward, always a coward. he has a lot in common with the orange asshole.

fuck him.

he's a piece of shit war criminal anyway.

[bullimiami]

76. Another Republican lightweight that had no business being President.

For at least the last 50 years they have just shit up everything they got hold of.

[GoreWon2000]

91. He was appointed, not elected!

[bullimiami]

92. I was in Florida. I know.

[GoreWon2000]

93. 15 of my more than 20 years spent working on dem election campaigns

was spent in Florida. I know too. Florida 2000 must never be forgotten. Our country will never be the same.

[bullimiami]

94. The Brooks bros a- holes should have been prosecuted.

Instead they are still fucking us over.

[GoreWon2000]

95. I agree that the DOJ dropped the ball on that one

Sadly there was no Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House who could launch a U.S. House investigation to shame the DOJ into doing its job lie there was after 1/6/21. The "Brooks Brothers" rioters are the tip of the iceberg of who should be held accountable. Another example is the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights referring Jeb and Harris to the DOJ for prosecution for the illegal "felon" purge and that went no where as well. The list goes on from there.

[bullimiami]

100. It was a real fuck of a dirty Republican tricks election

That Gore STILL WON BY A HAIR.

Felonious scotus had no business overruling the florida Supreme Court on a states voting issue.
And that ruling was a pile of steaming shit.

[GoreWon2000]

104. I totally agree

The uncounted Florida votes that sit in the Florida archives tell the ugly truth that Al Gore is the rightful winner of the 2000 election. The Brooks Brothers riot that Roger Stone was also involved in was just the tip of the iceberg of what really happened. It was an all out assault on American democracy by the Bush brothers and their cronies on so many levels. I think about the uncounted Florida votes almost every day. FYI, even Scalia called what the Rehnquist 5 did, "shit".O'Connor admitted in 2013 that they should never have taken the case. Our country suffers so terribly today because of it and it'll really never be the same because of it.

[oasis]

96. Bush ranks #2 on the shitty presidents chart.

[33taw]

81. I can't think of anyone who would change their mind based on his endorsement.

[Brainfodder]

84. Oil whipped wimp!

HIS OFFICE?

[hadEnuf]

97. Well, GW Bush is an asshole anyway, so....

[timms139]

99. He was

AWOL from the military and now when his party needs him to do the right thing he is AWOL again '

[Klarkashton]

101. Then go back to finger painting bad portraits you dimwit.

[Freethinker65]

102. I find it doubly obnoxious that he says he speaks for Laura as well.

I could actually see Laura Bush voting for Harris.