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Offline Right_in_Virginia

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Papa Bush and Shrub secretly furious about election 2016
« on: November 09, 2017, 04:28:07 am »
Papa Bush and Shrub secretly furious about election 2016
Washington Times, Nov 7, 2017, Joseph Curl

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Said Updegrove: “George W. Bush himself said in 2016 privately, and then to me, that ‘You know, I fear that I will be the last Republican president.’ And it wasn’t just about Hillary Clinton becoming president, as the Republican Party was having a difficult time finding itself. It was because Donald Trump represented everything that the Bushes abhorred,” the author told CNN.

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In the first chapter, George W. Bush calls the notion that he was the “prodigal son,” a reference to a wayward son in the Bible, “bullshit.” And in a 2012 interview with Mr. Updegrove, Mr. Bush told the historian he “chased a lot of pu**y and drank a lot of whiskey” as a young man, but added, “I was never the prodigal son because I never left my family.”

George Jr., by the way, also wanted to set the record straight. He said Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld, “didn’t make one f*cking decision” while he was president.

So much for stoic elder statesmen.


More: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/7/george-hw-bush-george-w-bush-bash-donald-trump/
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Offline Frank Cannon

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Re: Papa Bush and Shrub secretly furious about election 2016
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2017, 04:33:59 am »
Failed bitter old men being bitter. What's new.
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Re: Papa Bush and Shrub secretly furious about election 2016
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2017, 05:36:46 am »
If W hadn't been such a bleep up, he wouldn't have had to worry about being the last republican president.
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Re: Papa Bush and Shrub secretly furious about election 2016
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2017, 04:25:36 pm »
Quote from: RoosGirl on November 09, 2017, 05:36:46 am
If W hadn't been such a bleep up, he wouldn't have had to worry about being the last republican president.

OTOH, I've been publicly furious (at myself) for defending these two up to November 2006. I wasn't a big fan of Rumsfeld, but he took the fall for Dubya, who then was pure lame duck during his last two years in office.
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Re: Papa Bush and Shrub secretly furious about election 2016
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2017, 04:53:54 pm »
"Secretly"?  What's been a secret about it?  Those two have been letting everyone see their displeasure at Hillary losing.
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Re: Papa Bush and Shrub secretly furious about election 2016
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2017, 04:55:18 pm »
Ahhhh the insistence of the blood-right of kings and dynasty is very much alive in the Ruling Class of Oligarchs in this country isn't it?
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