You only get one chance to guess Which one it is:
"George W. absent from Bush endorsements" March 31, 2012|By Steve Peoples
HOUSTON - George W. Bush is as hard to find in his father’s office as he is in the 2012 presidential contest.
The 43d president appears in a gold-framed picture tucked into a far corner of the room, partially hidden by a Texas flag and a cabinet door.
Good Lord, even the father is embarrassed and ashamed.
The placement is a reminder of the Republican presidential campaign and the lengths to which Mitt Romney and his rivals have minimalized their references to the two-term president.
I'm not trying to be picky, but isn't the correct word minimized? I don't believe minimalized is a word.
Of course, bloggers like me could never be reporters for a prestigious institution like the vaunted Boston Globe.
Btw, readers, when I's mess up the grammaticals it iz to makes a pernt!!!
The younger Bush was an afterthought Thursday as former president George H.W. Bush met with Romney until a reporter raised the issue.
“I haven’t met with President George W. Bush. We speak from time to time,’’ Romney said when asked if he had sought the younger Bush’s endorsement.
Yeah, he's only filled his advisers and potential staffers with former Bush neo-cons.
Reporters were forced to leave the room before they could ask more about Romney’s connection to the Republican president who left office just three years ago with the nation on the brink of financial ruin.
George W. Bush has been ignored for months in the Republican presidential campaign. But his absence has been more pronounced over the last seven days as Romney trumpeted the endorsements of the former president’s father and younger brother, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, while spending two days courting donors across Texas.
George W. Bush, who lives in Dallas, did not attend any of Romney’s half-dozen Texas fund-raisers this week.
While largely unspoken, both sides acknowledge that Republicans would be best served by not reminding voters of the Bush legacy of gaping budget deficits, two wars, and record-low approval ratings.
Yeah, otherwise we might start demanding a war crimes court for the lying, mass-murdering sob.
His eight-year presidency has merited no more than a fleeting reference from Romney and his rivals in debates, campaign stops, and interviews.
“For now we’re just staying out of it,’’ George W. Bush spokesman Freddy Ford said, declining to comment on a possible endorsement. Ford said Bush was focused on promoting and developing a presidential library bearing his name at Southern Methodist University.
But George W. Bush’s virtual invisibility from the presidential contest seemed to surprise even his 87-year-old father Thursday, as a handful of reporters visited the senior Bush’s private office in Houston to watch him endorse Romney.
The 43d president has been noticeably absent from national politics since leaving office in 2009 with a Gallup approval rating of just 34 percent.
A plurality of Americans continue to blame Bush for the nation’s economic struggles: 43 percent of voters said he deserved a lot or almost all of the blame, compared with 36 percent who point to Republicans in Congress, 33 percent who think Democrats in Congress are responsible and 30 percent who blame President Obama, according to a December AP-GfK poll.
And a LOT OF US BLAME THEM ALL because THEY ARE ALL TO BLAME!
In a presidential contest dominated by concerns over the economy, government spending and federal debt, the Republican candidates have been loath to acknowledge the extent to which the George W. Bush administration’s policies contributed to those problems.
There is no question that Obama’s policies, including the federal stimulus program and the auto industry bailout, have swollen the deficit and deepened the debt. And three years into his presidency, Obama often falls back on complaints about the bad situation he inherited when defending his own economic performance.
But while Obama may be overly eager to blame the Bush years for the nation’s problems, GOP presidential contenders seem just as eager to pretend those years never happened.
“George W. Bush is still too fresh in the minds of voters,’’ said Republican operative Michael Dennehy, a top staffer for Senator John McCain’s presidential bid four years ago.
He will never be forgotten!
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Of course, the WHOLE FAMILY is a CRIME SYNDICATE!
