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Subscribe to RSSOn a fundraising swing through Texas today, GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney made time for at least one meeting with a prominent Republican who was not cutting him a check, former President George H.W. Bush.
The two men, described by campaign aides as good friends, met at Bush's Houston home. The 87-year old former President did not offer his endorsement today, but has made it clear in the past that he favors Romney as his party's nominee.
In an interview last November with CNN's Larry King, both Bush and his wife, Former First Lady Barbara Bush, praised Romney.
"We like Mitt Romney. We know him well and like him very much," the former president said. "He's a reasonable guy. A conservative fellow, which is good. But, no, I think he'd be a good president, a very good president."
Barbara Bush added, "I'll go with George. Mitt Romney. I like a lot of them. But I like people who feel that you can respect other people's ideas. I like that a lot."
Last cycle, Bush hosted Romney at his presidential library in College Station, Texas for Romney's December 2007 speech about his Mormon faith. Bush did not endorse a candidate during the primary cycle in 2008.
The two men are linked perhaps most directly through Ron Kaufman, a former Bush adviser and long-time aide, who is now a senior adviser for Romney's presidential campaign.
The two New England-style Republicans are also united by biographical similarities. Both are the sons of prominent Republican politicians. Bush's father Prescott was a two-term U.S. Senator from Connecticut, and Romney's father George was twice elected Governor of Michigan.
During the summer months, they're also neighbors. While Bush made his name and political career in Texas, his family's famous Kennebunkport, Maine compound is a mere 50 miles from Romney's summer home on New Hampshire's Lake Winnepesaukee.
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So which Willard showed up for the meeting today?
Someone ought to inform these two that there is medication available for slowing down dementia!
Bush Sr. is looking pretty good compared to the current crop of Teapublicans. This is probably the first smart thing Romney has done, but unfortunately a brief visit will not imbue Romney with any of Bush Sr.'s qualifications.
The GOP/TP just get more stupid with each generation. It's time to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine and shut down "Dumb FUX" (love it Feisty) and Hate Radio.
Interesting they brought up George H. W.'s father Prescott.
George W. Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act,has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.
And that's just Prescott. The Bush dynasty is a very tangled web of deceit and corruption...all of them. Search it. You know what they say about birds of a feather? Anyone connected to the Bush family should be highly suspect. Wish I had known this when Clinton was on board with them.
Of course this is just in my humble opinion.
Feisty Redhead
Apparently you haven't taken the medication yet. Don't put it off much longer old gal, it may already be too late for you.
Rico
Are you spewing lies again? Where is the proof ? I respect not only the two President Bush's we have had but also their lovely, gracious wives.
Anyone that thinks Obama has been a good president is out of their wee little minds. He is the worst president our country has had to suffer through. He should have already been arrested for treason.
Rangewolf,
All the presidents have had good and bad, ups and down and even a few mistresses here and there. You can't say the Republicans are any better than the Democrats as they've all shown to be a power hungry and corrupt bunch.
Arguably Bush senior did some of the right things that cost him re-election and Clinton carries with him a title of growth as having been the only president in recent years to pay down the debt.
I'm worried about the political divide, the GOP candidates, what Obama will do with a second term besides spend (I think he's listening too much to Economics 101 professors myself).
I don't see good from any of this for the next 4 years.
Kissing the ring of the king of the crime syndicate. pathetic.
George H. W. Bush is in great shape for somebody who is 87.
The nominee is going to be Romney. Why else would he travel to Houston to get the blessing of George HW Bush?
How come Newtie the Oaf and Hermie the clown weren't invited?
Just so the Bushes don't meet with Newt Blingrich...
Let Blingrich meet with the other useless celeb candidate Trump like the other ridiculous ones...
And oddly, after being around the former President for a few minutes, Governor Zelig begins to look and sound exactly like Bush senior...As President Bush's aides carry him out, the now totally transformed Zelig is heard mumbling... "read my lips...thousand points of light"...
I find it heartwarming that they have a compound and a summer home near each other.
Well that's it now Mitt has got the ultimate chance to be the nonminee. NOT!!!!!!
Mitt can get a few tips from a true leader.
Mitt Romney will be our true dear leader for the next eight years.
One united people, in one great nation under God, with one true leader. Mitt Romney.
POTUS 2013-2020.
I am a progressive Democrat, and have always believed that good Republican candidates have gotten ground down to a "one size fits all" conservative platform. It didn't work for Sen. McCain or Sen. Dole, both of whom had progressive ideas that seemed to disappear the closer they got to the nomination.
I have a great deal of respect and admiration for President Bush, Sr. (as well as his son). Romney should do well to take any notes these past conservative presidents have on charm, and hopefully any help on bringing the political talk back to the issues that concern the majority of American citizens.
Most Christians (so called) rag Mitt about being a Mormon. All you have to do is Go to Wikipedia and read that their are thousands of different Christian Churches. Actually, there is no Mormon Church, Mormon is just a nickname, like the Jets. I feel sorry for Mitt because he is not a Fire and Brimstone Baptist. One thing, I wouldn't trust Newt with a dime, and Bachmann and Santorum, are plain crazy.
Mr Readwell,
Nice to hear someone tone down the hate rhetoric for a change.
Sorry that politics has forced us, as a people, into a fiscal corner where the only way out is to introduce very draconian measures upon ourselves.
Our present spending levels are unsustainable. No politician has the guts to tell the painful truth to the people.
The last gallant effort to set things right was the Cut, Cap, and Balance bill that was immediately rejected by Senator Harry Reid. Never even brought up for discussion in the Senate.
The "supercommittee" was a joke from the start. The committee started by identifying 90 billion in potential cuts. (That's 90,000 million)
The last offer that the Republican side put on the table was for 36 million in cuts. It was rejected.
So look at these numbers: 90,000 Million VS, 36 Million. And we can't even cut 36 million. And they were supposed to cut 1.2 Trillion. LOL
We are doomed no matter who is in office.
Gee I just think it is early to be endorsing anyone. As Cain may step down, he has said that it is the decision of who wears the pants in the family sort of speak, his wife. So we will know in a few hours what that verdict is. I just wished that Barbour would have ran. Why not? after all, he was a judge. That would have Congress and the Senate hopping. Could have sent them to the brig, Say what all you will. I know he has been a really good governor and a likeable one for this state.
HUH???? OHHHHH I see you want to call it the Church of the Latter Day Saints .
Friggin Republicans....what is the faith of the Church of the Latter Day Saints?
What??? Mormon???? I guess that makes it the Mormon Church of the Latter Day Saints. And then there is the Book of Mormon, Bringham Young Mormon University etc.
I have no problem with Mormons. I remember when they first banned smoking in airport terminal. Utah provided a "smoking room" for travelers. The only one I ran across at that time.
But don't try to clean it up to what YOU think is acceptable. It's doing just fine on it's own tyvm.
Romney and Bush, Sr...two wild and crazy guys! Such personalities. They are about as exciting as watching grass grow or paint dry. Did they sit down and listen to Pat Boone records? Did they have cookies and milk served by Old Lady Bush? A loser president and a flip flopping candidate with no back bone, no soul.
Mata Harry: "A loser president and a flip flopping candidate with no back bone, no soul."
Ummm, you sure you're not describing Obama?? It sounds like it.