While Dick Cheney has endorsed Harris, there have been no comments from other senior Republicans from Bush’s era
The MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell this week hit out at George W Bush, the Republican former president, for refusing to weigh in on America’s looming presidential election.
“All any decent person wants him to do is to say, ‘Don’t vote for Donald Trump, and here’s why,’ and he won’t even do that,” O’Donnell told the Fast Politics podcast, of the Republican president who was in office from 2001 to 2009.
Increasingly, Bush – and some other top Republicans from his political era – are looking lonely in their ongoing refusal to take a side in an election in which many have warned that US democracy is under threat from Trump’s open sympathies with autocracy.
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Oh, now everyone is surprised when he acts like a piece of shit? My good friend growing up died in Iraq in 2008. For what?
He’s a war criminal at large who is running from the Hague, he’s obviously going to be on the bad guys side.
To Bush, being morally indefensible is a plus.
Didn’t he start the stacking the supreme court? Could have been his dad. Jr was just stupider.
No, that was Ronald Reagan, who gave us most of the SCOTUS justices who picked W over Gore to be President in the 2000 election despite his having lost.
Bushes are morally bankrupt anyways. Two war criminals and one of them, Laura, killed her friend in a car accident where she ran a stop sign.
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big fucking tough guy when it comes to sending other peoples’ kids out to die for a bullshit war based on outright lies
but when it’s time to actually take the correct stance on something, he buckles like a lawn chair under the average cod cosplaying maga chud
He’s super busy painting dog pictures.
I was living in NYC before and after 9/11.
The Ground Zero pit stayed undeveloped until 2007 because that’s how long it took the money men to decide which insurer would pay for what. George W. never bothered to push them to hurry things, because it was vital that every single penny be accounted for. No problem with starting a war with lies, but money must be guarded to the utmost.
They wanted it to stay an open wound because it let them be more jingo
“Jingoistic” is a phrase I’ve not heard in a long time.
cod cosplaying maga chud
Had to recalibrate my mental image from the fish costume I imagined before remembering that Call of Duty exists 😄
I’m pretty sure his endorsement would be a negative. Same with the Cheney one, I can’t think of anyone that would look at that and be like: yes, I’ll go with Cheney. If anything it would turn people off.
I think you’re right, but I’d like to believe there was at least one person out there that thought, “Shit, I’d better vote for Harris, or he might shoot me in the face!”
Now watch that drive
‘Morally Indefensible’ - but Adolf Hitler will not come out against drinking cow’s milk.
Centrists are so disappointed that senpai didn’t notice them.
Ex-Presidents don’t endorse future politicians. They step aside for new leadership.
You just write down whatever you make up in your head as if it were a fact, or what?
I’ve studied political science, economics, and history for ten years. Most don’t have the time and resources. My mistake was engaging the echo chamber with something so complicated.
And the proof several others posted about former presidents endorsing candidates, including George W. Bush doesn’t mean anything because you are the authority here?
Maybe presidents shouldn’t endorse, but not everything is as it should, because you said so. And just because it shouldn’t you can’t just say it isn’t, as if it were a fact.
Reagan changed many paradigms for the worse. I’d bet the majority here couldn’t name his predecessor without looking it up, let alone the legislative majorities and legislation.
I’m going to go do something more productive.
Yeah, man. This crowd doesn’t really care about the point you were trying to make. Lemmy just wants to vote their feelings.
Don’t sweat it.
Don’t sweat it.
Your lack of care (and history of shallow reasoning and arrogance) is why everything increasingly sucks.
This crowd… Lemmy
This crowd isn’t representative of Lemmy whole.
A. I was commiserating with you.
B. Not sure where you are coming from with that weird judgment about my shallow reasoning and arrogance, lol.
C. Cheers mate. Maybe you should take a break.
insert Skinner meme here
“It must be everyone else that’s wrong.”
It’s not actually that complicated. Every living former president, including the one the article is about, has made endorsements either in this or a previous election.
Obama and Biden? And Harris?
Bush endorsed Romney in 2012.
Bush also endorsed McCain in 2008
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us-politics/bush-endorses-mccain-for-presidency-idUSWAT009073/
He also endorsed a bunch of non-presidential political candidates.
Yeah, the dignity of the office took quite a nose dive at Reagan.
Yet 4 former presidents endorsed Harris. So what are you on about?
They’re wrong to do so. It’s an old tradition intended to ensure peaceful transfer of power and avoid hegemony. They disrespect the office.
A tradition like president candidates releasing tax returns or presidents making White House visitor logs public or staying out of justice department actions or not personally profiting off the presidency or…
A tradition like president candidates releasing tax returns or presidents making White House visitor logs public or staying out of justice department actions or not personally profiting off the presidency or…
Yes. Much of the precedent that constitutes a “good” President was established by the actions of Washington and Adams.
They disrespect the office.
An endorsement disrespects the office, but Trump shitting all over the office, and every citizen isn’t. Yeah you can fuck right off with your disingenuous bullshit.
I expect and deserve better. It’s not a popular perspective here, where all have settled for “not Trump”. I’ll leave you to your less than mediocre whatever.
I’ll leave you to your less than mediocre whatever.
Ironic. And the third-party candidates aren’t?
Can’t not read that in Comic Book Guy’s voice.
Username checks out
Sure, go ahead and try to execute the VP, overturn election results, completely stonewall judicial appointments, but actually calling out a traitor is a bridge too far.
Because Trump is a pig, all the rest should roll in the mud also? That doesn’t seem wise.
Its Bush, that war criminal can go to hell
Yep, but it would be nice if he took Trump with him.
straight to hell
That would be his chance to do something decent for once.
Reminds me of when Pink wrote a song for him Dear Mr. President and we thought he is the worst that can happen…
“How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?”Honestly find it odd that he hasn’t come out for Harris considering he’s the first one to look at President Trump and say “this is weird shit”. It’s not like Bush is in politics anymore I don’t see how ditching Trump would hurt him in any way
Trump is the only chance gwb has of someone else having more war crimes than him; making him look less evil.
These are Republicans, they only ever serve their own best interests.
