“It wasn’t technically a heart attack, though she called it that. It was a crisis in her long battle with congestive heart failure and chronic pulmonary disease that hit her like a sledgehammer one day in June 2016,” Page wrote in USA Today. But, Page added: “The tumultuous presidential campaign in general and Trump’s ridicule of son Jeb Bush in particular had riled her. 'Angst,’ she told me.”...Is she blaming Trump or blaming Jeb? Jeb was a terrible candidate, and his early accumulation of money hampered other candidates who might have been more competitive. I'm sure it hurt to see her son battered about, but that's what a campaign is. Everyone gets ridiculed, and I think Jeb ridiculed Trump too. Trump just came up with effective attacks, but, if I remember correctly, Trump specialized in fighting back when he was attacked.
Bush was so concerned about Trump that after first expressing hesitancy about her son Jeb running for president, she ultimately gave in — and even campaigned for him, according to Page.
ADDED: From February 2016, "The 17 saddest moments of Jeb Bush’s very sad campaign" (Vox).
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"“It wasn’t technically a heart attack, though she called it that. It was a crisis in her long battle with congestive heart failure and chronic pulmonary disease that hit her like a sledgehammer one day in June 2016,”
This was the most challenging aspect of Trump's decades long ploy to cause Barbara Bush health problems.
Can you imagine how difficult it was to sneak into the Bush home for decades and adding cholesterol to the food in the fridge and strategically place extra butter on cookies and cakes?
After that, it was just a matter of time so Trump sat back for about 45 years and waited patiently for his plan to come to fruition.
The part that has not come out yet is the role Vladimir Putin played in this dastardly endeavor!!
Already the LLR "go to" network, MSNBC, has lined up series of shows to expose this horrific activity.
Also, the entirety of the Left/LLR's have decided to alter their previous labeling of every republican for the last 70 years as a literal Nazi to more properly reflect their new thinking: It was Trump and Putin all along.
She didn't want Jeb! running at all, as I recall...
First Rule of the Trump Era: Anything and everything bad that happens that can even remotely be blamed on Trump, will be - neigh, must be blamed on Trump.
Trump is all consuming. He lives in all his opponents heads rent free. He is all their fears made manifest, all their anxieties personified.
Your memory matches mine. He was nice to Cruz for a few debates. Then got harsh. Cruz pointed out the change. Trump replied, you weren’t a threat then.
The Bush family is full of weak Big Government shit heads.
Sorry to see Barbara Bush soil herself in this way, if the press can be believed on this point.
But clarity is nice.
I thought that the best part of the story was that a friend of Mrs. Bush's, knowing how she loathed Trump, gave her a Trump Countdown Clock which was set to count down to Trump's last day in office (presuming a single term, of course), and Mrs. Bush loved it so much she kept it at her beside and brought it with her as she moved from home to other facilities.
You can get your own Trump Countdown Clock at Amazon through the Althouse Portal!
"Is she blaming Trump or blaming Jeb?"
"Trump’s ridicule of son Jeb Bush in particular had riled her."
This does sound like a despicable hit piece, doesn't it? Already moving on tho the next failed attack strategy. They have learned nothing.
Babs Bush campaigning for Jeb... what a way to waste one's last days. She would have done better ghostwriting for another spaniel.
That goddam Trump! He tried to kill that poor woman!
Well, Barbara Bush passed away after a real nice life, so it would probably be in poor taste to criticize her or besmirch.
Jeb Bush, however, is still with us, and still a rich, powerful public figure.
So, I would simply ask the Commentariat to please clap for him.
Sorry, I can't believe she had any concerns about Trump that early in the game. He was a political nobody, a future also-ran.
Sounds like some convenient retconning to me.
This is crap.
The pathetic Mccain funeral showed the true establishment Uniparty and their hatred of Trump who threatens their power.
Jeez, if Barbara had a heart attack over what Trump said about Jeb, her head must have exploded over what they were saying about W from 01-09.
I refuse to read any news about previous First Ladys until there are positive covers with our lovely Melania at the newstands. it is an american tradition.
terrifying the comprehensive news control these last few years, absolutely stunning. sorry Ms. Bush gets plowed into the maw, but i can't really care, and will avert my eyes, embarrassed for everyone.
There's a lot of hardball and dirty tricks in politics. I'm not a Trump fan but what he did to Jeb was aboveboard in the sense that he said it personally and directly to Jeb in the debate. Jeb had plenty of opportunity to respond, either in the debate or later by showing he didn't have low energy.
What Trump did compares favorably to what the Bush machine did to John McCain in the South Carolina primary when underlings were used to spread false rumors that McCain had an illegitimate black child when in fact it was a daughter his family adopted from Bangladesh. Did Barbara feel any angst or get any heart problems due to that?
. . . That is to say, I can't even read this post.
cheers!
The rationale for Jeb Bush's campaign was that he would win a lot of Hispanic votes because he speaks Spanish and is married to a Mexican woman. He wrote a reasonable book about his proposed immigration reforms.
However, too many Republicans doubted that he would enforce our immigration laws or any reformed laws.
Also, he did not provide a coherent position in regard to the USA's invasion of Iraq under his brother's presidency. He apparently thought he could just tap-dance answers to questions about that.
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In hindsight, I recognize that the key to Donald Trump's victories in the primary elections and then in the general elections was his promise to fix foreign trade, which was destroying jobs in the Rust Belt. Trump was the only candidate who campaigned on that issue effectively.
All the rest of the candidates were too much free-traders.
My angst over some of George Bush's decisions led to diarrhea.
Mom so loved her Jeb!
"Please clap."
The tumultuous presidential campaign in general and Trump’s ridicule of son Jeb Bush in particular had riled her.
You mean, compared to what they said about her other son W during the eight years of his presidency?
"Low-energy" is so much more morally weighted a phrase than is "war criminal".
"Jeb was a terrible candidate, and his early accumulation of money hampered other candidates who might have been more competitive."
Do you mean Scott Walker? Then just say so. But those other candidates who might have been more competitive must have been even more terrible than Jeb, because early accumulation of money is part of campaigning for President in this country. The donors of that early money looked at Jeb and looked at the other candidates and decided to back Jeb.
"Barbara Bush had expressed disdain for Trump more than 20 years ago, writing in her journals in the 1990s that he was 'greedy, selfish and ugly,' according to a news release about the book."
How terrible that Trump caused her to have a heart attack. Can a sitting president be sued for that?
It must have been difficult for Babs; seeing W become a two-termer despite his lackluster record of achievement for much of his life. Meanwhile, Jeb, from what little I know of him, seems to have lived life the way any mother would want for her son, only to have pushed aside on the cusp of his long awaited ascendency to the halls of power that the Bush's seem to believe are meant for them.
Not that I wanted him in. America is not supposed to be ruled by dynasties. Still, I can muster some sympathy.
“You can get your own Trump Countdown Clock at Amazon through the Althouse Portal!”
Nah. Looking for the Bulwark going out of business clock. Probably won’t have to count down much so it’ll be cheaper.
You can get your own Trump Countdown Clock at Amazon through the Althouse Portal!
Does it go to 2025?
She had it easy. Melania had to deal with the campaign exposing that her husband had a small wiener. She had no idea. It must have be devastating to find out.
Residents of the Highway of Death were unavailable to comment.
Coming headline at CNN:"Trump attempted to murder elderly woman. Threw off cops by not doing it on 5th Ave."
Barbara at least had the perspicacity to understand early on that nobody wanted another Bush. Ana Navaro appears to have parlayed getting everything about the 2016 election wrong into a lucrative media career as a political analyst. Best I can tell her only qualification is being a token loudmouth Latina.
Why do people share this stuff?
TMI!
Well, Romney gave a woman cancer.
Don't sugarcoat it, Althouse. Trump killed her. I bet Mueller didn't look into that one!
Trumpit--good one!
You're learning.
early accumulation of money is part of campaigning for President
You've forgotten the old criticism that W used Daddy's vast fund-raising apparatus. No doubt Jeb! did, too. The senior Bushes sent out over 40,000 Christmas cards a year, IIRC, even before he was president. That and national name recognition certainly gave Jeb! a leg up over Walker and everyone but Trump.
I have lost all respect for the Bushes. I spent a lot of my time & reputation defending them through the years, and when GOP voters finally had enough of their warm-glass-of-milk boardroom politics, they turned on the party and voters.
Trump specialized in fighting back when he was attacked.
Trump specializes in fighting back when he is attacked.
Fixed your verb tense problem, Althouse.
Left Bank: "But those other candidates who might have been more competitive must have been even more terrible than Jeb, because early accumulation of money is part of campaigning for President in this country."
How is it possible to be this dense?
Jeb led in fundraising early on because he had a father and brother who had been President and he inherited fundraising capabilities that otherwise he would have had to build.
Jeb received .92% (less than 1% for those who live on Left Banks) of the total primary vote, AFTER inheriting the most potent fundraising operation that one could hope for.
Seriously, how is it you keep missing such basic facts?
LOL
Soap Opera women are the target for this article. Where’s the guy that usually jumps in first to say that?
USA Today seems to have a quota for TDS articles each day. With the Mueller report out, it seems they have to resort to Trump haters who died before the Mueller release.
Obama gave me gas every day. Does that count?
And Bill Clinton gave the whole country a sexually transmitted disease.
I'm so old I remember when Mitt Romney gave a woman cancer!!
Long after she had left the company....that he had not owned in years and years....and which, in fact, had been run by a big obama donor!!!
But that was then and this is now and thus it is now Trump who is magically "unicorning" diseases to people.
BTW, precisely when did the lefties pronounce the Bush family innocent after spending about 2 decades asserting the Bush family literally (not figuratively, literally) financed the rise of Hitler? (and for those of you doubters, oh yes they most certainly did)
She's full of shit. No one made Jeb feel worse or lower than when his own mother said he was not her favorite, on camera during a puff piece. That wasn't the only time she publicly humiliated him either. Total projection and Trump derangement.
She was probably riled up that the title of first lady, enjoyed by herself and her daughter-in-law, was either going to be passed to a trophy-wife pornographic model or retired altogether.
Howard: "Residents of the Highway of Death were unavailable to comment."
Good times, good times.
And, you're welcome.
The Bushes and Clintons and Obamas were all on the same uniparty team.
They hate Trump because Trump removed the masks.
Had five chances to vote for Bushes.
Only gave in to that misfortune once.
I abstained from the country club unprincipled nonsense every other time.
J. Farmer said...
Barbara at least had the perspicacity to understand early on that nobody wanted another Bush. Ana Navaro appears to have parlayed getting everything about the 2016 election wrong into a lucrative media career as a political analyst. Best I can tell her only qualification is being a token loudmouth Latina.
Navaro is a uniparty republican.
i.e. on the globalist team.
There never was a republican or democrat party. Look at what the "republicans' did to Reagan who they also detested.
Left Bank of the Charles said...
Do you mean Scott Walker? Then just say so. But those other candidates who might have been more competitive must have been even more terrible than Jeb, because early accumulation of money is part of campaigning for President in this country. The donors of that early money looked at Jeb and looked at the other candidates and decided to back Jeb.
The big money backed Jeb because he was open borders.
Walker was in the lead until he listened to his highly payed DC consultants who told him to waffle on Immigration. He waffled. He was immediately cast aside.
They probably did that because they knew there was no money on a pro-american immigration policy.
All the wealthy people support democrats now they don't have a Bush style republican, i.e. traitor, to support.
"Does it go to 2025?"
Not for Chuck. He gonna trade his in for some duct tape and garden hose.
Imagine longing for the years to fly past when you’re in your 90s.
I would look at that Trump countdown clock and think where within that time is my last day. And: I’m unlikely to make it to the next President. I would hope the days would linger, not stare at a clock and wish they were done.
Well, the Mueller Report is here, you can die now.
LIfe Long Republican Becomes Democrat Tool would have been a good title.
I would hope the days would linger,
Spend an hour with a ninety year old sometime. They often read the obituaries hoping to find their own name.
Althouse: " I would hope the days would linger,..."
That sentiment separates you from the LLR's who see a republican president and their thoughts go to "oh death, where is thy sting"....
You should try not to spend more time thinking about someone than they spend on you.
Talk about stress. Mother Bush knew what the family had done. And she knew Trump knew too.
I am guilty, too- I only clapped with one hand for Jeb!!!!!!!!!!!'s campaign.
It seems pretty cruel to blame Jeb! for killing his elderly mother, but here we are. Sad!
I will assume this story is apocryphal, especially as Mrs. Bush died before it came out. And if true, then it is probably a good thing she didn't live to see Mueller clear Trump and his campaign of being Russian stooges.
Though, before we dismiss this story, perhaps we should wait to see what evidence Mueller collected on Trump causing heart attacks.
I would hope the days would linger, not stare at a clock and wish they were done.
If you don't mind a piece of advice from a septuagenarian, the trick is to have deadlines and things to do by some set date (there's a slight difference). Otherwise retirement can be endless days where one is much like the one before and the one before that. I used to joke that weeks when I worked were five days at the office, a Saturday and a Sunday, and then they were six Saturdays and a Sunday -- only because on Sunday you need to recognize that some shops will close early. And then you look around and see that months have gone by and nothing is accomplished.
The headline should read "Susan Page says . . . ." Then everyone would say, Who the heck is Susan Page? and the story would die. As it should.
Barbara Bush's animosity toward Trump was less irrational than that of the rest of the Trump haters. (Not sayin' it was rational, mind you.) She was ¡Jeb!'s mom, and Trump bullied ¡Jeb!. Bullied him cruelly and expertly. Who wouldn't understand a mother hatin' on the guy who bullied her baby?
At least that's normal and explicable, unlike the completely whacked animosity of say, the NeverTrumpers.
Isn't she the "Lady wearing Pearls" of famous photo-ops.
She must have clutched real hard to autoasphixiate.
Its a simple question: If you Bush couldn't withstand 6 months of Trump in the primaries, he never would have withstood 2 years of a Mueller Witch Hunt as President.
Ann Althouse said...
Imagine longing for the years to fly past when you’re in your 90s.
I would look at that Trump countdown clock and think where within that time is my last day. And: I’m unlikely to make it to the next President. I would hope the days would linger, not stare at a clock and wish they were done.
Oh that is certainly a clever way to bash Mrs. Bush and defend Trump, but that is not what I pictured at all. I imagined the Bush family -- as healthy and successful and as happy a family as one could imagine -- all laughing hysterically at Barbara's bedside over the Trump Countdown Clock. There must've been a lot of visitors, and a lot of visits may have had to take place at bedside in the end. And what a hilarious conversation piece! I imagine the Bush family doing much, much more laughing than the Trump family. I'm not sure I have ever heard a member of the Trump family laugh. Certainly not Donald.
And I expect that the Trump Countdown Clock was a virtually risk-free conversation piece? Who, among Barbara Bush's visitors would have minded? Did Senator Graham visit her? I hope so. And having laughing called Trump "a kook," Lindsey would have laughed for sure. Henry Kissinger? Colin Powell? Dick Cheney? Dan Quayle? Lamar Alexander? Jim Baker? Rex Tillerson? Bill Barr? Susan Collins? John McCain? Alan Simpson? I cannot imagine anyone in the Bush orbit who wouldn't have laughed long and loud about it.
And that, in one's final days, is what mattered.
Althouse, you imagine Trump-hatred as dark and stultifying. For me, my Trump-hatred is a mark of honor and delight, shared with many, many others of various political ideologies but unified by the assurance that we are on the side of sanity and morality and decency. We can laugh with each other. At Trump's expense.
there are echoes with panama thirty years ago,
https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2019/03/27/how-chavismo-lost-la-vega/
I think the Bushes told a lot of jokes, and the countdown clock would get a big laugh.
I am worried about the mental health of some of our commenters. What is one to make of this:
"For me, my Trump-hatred is a mark of honor and delight, shared with many, many others of various political ideologies but unified by the assurance that we are on the side of sanity and morality and decency."
Or perhaps you are at one with the mental cases. There used to be people in the Upper Midwest (Colonel McCormick comes to mind) who felt that way about the King of England.
Chuck@5:21 Nazis think they are superior, and they get together and have a laugh at the dirty Jews, gypsies, Catholics and homosexuals that they were eliminating because they were a tool to unite the derangement and hatred of those others who are not clean, decent and members of the party.
Yancey Ward said...
Didn't Trump cause Inga's herpes? Or was that Chuck's complaint?
All hail the new era of Althouse commenting moderation, where commenters should think of their submissions as sending a private message to Althouse...
Yeah.
Sigh... the lonely and lame exclamation point said it all...Jeb!...but the lettering was all in red...so exciting. Everything about Jeb communicated the opposite of excitement. He had bad posture, a demeanor that did not seem vital or confident. Ironically, he seemed to have none of his mother's crackle and spunk. I'm sure his sad sack performance was very painful for her but Trump was not the only one who would have beat him.
(Colonel McCormick comes to mind) who felt that way about the King of England.?
I think that was Big Bill Thompson, Mayor of Chicago.
Col Mac almost gave away the secret of breaking the Japanese codes.
(eaglebeak)
Jeb: My mother's the strongest woman I know
Trump: She should be running
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdyBOXVgdPY
Amadeus 48 wrote:
"I am worried about the mental health of some of our commenters. What is one to make of this:
'For me, my Trump-hatred is a mark of honor and delight, shared with many, many others of various political ideologies but unified by the assurance that we are on the side of sanity and morality and decency.'"
You are correct, sir, and I was wrong. Chuck blamed Trump for his untreated syphilis, not his herpes.
If you don't like it, Chuck, stop drawing the target on your ass with every comment you make here.
LLR: "..shared with many, many others of various political ideologies"
Approaching zero on the conservative/republican side of the divide.
All your pals are on the solid left and far left, along with your policy positions.
Julie Kelly captured it perfectly: you are a functional leftist, which is why ALL your media pals are now funded by George Soros, Pierre Omidyar, Tom Steyer and Reid Hoffman.
The lefty billionaires know exactly who and what you are, so they are happy to throw money at you....for obvious reasons.
The really cool fantastic news? Its all over for you and your fake conservative fakers. Like your beloved far left media, your influence amongst republicans will forever be.....nil. Nada. Zilch.
There is no going back.
Just think, all those years attempting to build up your fake conservative street cred...and Trump blows that out of the water in mere months!!!
So so sweet.
“Yancey Ward said...
Didn't Trump cause Inga's herpes? Or was that Chuck's complaint?
All hail the new era of Althouse commenting moderation, where commenters should think of their submissions as sending a private message to Althouse...
Yeah.”
It’s a farce. Probably done to keep the M person from getting a comment in without them noticing and deleting in a timely fashion. It’s quite obvious now that any sort of commenting standard is merely lip service. I was wondering if she had meant what she said about not making one’s comment be about the person and to address the subject matter substantively, apparently she didn’t. She not consistent, she never has been in all the years I’ve been here. I’m sorry I believed she was being sincere, I should’ve known better.
Residents of the Highway of Death were unavailable to comment.
Let’s apply some logic here. You are driving a vehicle in a long convoy. It is wartime, and your enemy owns the skies. Suddenly there is an explosion in front of you as the lead vehicle is blown up, blocking the way forward. Moments later the way back is blocked when the last vehicle in the convoy is blown up. Do you ...
(1) demonstrate that your IQ contains at least two digits by exiting your vehicle and running like Hell in a direction perpendicular to the road, or
(2) wait patiently in your vehicle until someone clears out the problem in front of you?
Yes, some Iraqis died on the Highway of Death. But we should think of it as evolution in action.
LLR Chuck is having another Pecan Pie moment with this meaningless clock thing.
He does that alot, especially today when his heroic commie-voting muslim-brotherhood-supporting spy-on-domestic-opponents John Bremnan has been exposed as lying under oath AGAIN by claiming the hoax/fake dossier was not part of the fake Intelligence estimate (IC Report) that russia tried to throw the election to Trump.
Todays revelation?
Brennan actually INSISTED that the hoax dossier be included in that IC estimate!!
Perhaps Lindsay Graham can ask Li'l Brennan about that under oath...even if the answer might make certain LLR's curl up in a ball and suck their thumbs.
Chuck wants comment moderation to protect it, in particular.
Meanwhile, it cannot fathom how inhuman Barbara Bush appears.
Because she pretends she is a Royal who deserves deference.
But we are Americans and Titles of Nobility do not exist.
Having a pretend country club membership as a pretend lawyer doesn't matter.
We are all equal.
(Your gym address notwithstanding.)
Jeb was a terrible candidate
Lovely understatement. What was his rationale for running? Did he ever say? If elected, what would he propose to do differently from Barack Obama? He could raise money. And ... ?
Was at Bush museum in College Station last month.
I've lost so much respect for them since the Trump presidency.
They never said an F'ing word during Obama's 8 years of liberal advocacy,
then pipe up as soon as a Republican is elected.
This "heart attack" BS may be the final straw
off to the McCain/Romney wood chipper for you!
It's a very arbitrary filter, the treehouse noted the communications that were revealed re the construction of the intelligence estimate
Althouse, you imagine Trump-hatred as dark and stultifying. For me, my Trump-hatred is a mark of honor and delight, shared with many, many others of various political ideologies but unified by the assurance that we are on the side of sanity and morality and decency."
Assumes facts not in evidence. At least in the reality the rest of us live in.
I voted for Jeb several times for governor and he was a good governor. However in 2016 he was a meh.. I voted for Cruz in the primary but Trump has exceeded my expectations. Now Donald, it's time to lock her up!
Nobody said...
LIfe Long Republican Becomes Democrat Tool would have been a good title.
Replace -Becomes- with -was always a- and you have it right.
Althouse, you imagine Trump-hatred as dark and stultifying. For me, my Trump-hatred is a mark of honor and delight, shared with many, many others of various political ideologies but unified by the assurance that we are on the side of sanity and morality and decency. We can laugh with each other.
No delusion like self-delusion. You are insane, immoral, and a long way from decent. More decadent than decent.
"Romney gave a woman cancer"
He also tortured his dog and had binders full of women. I'm not going to defend him anymore.
"Will your men still fight for you once they learn you wouldn't fight for them?" - John Snow, Game of Thrones
Howard: "Residents of the Highway of Death were unavailable to comment"
Hah. You are actually sympathetic to those fucks?
Who do you think manned Saddam's torture chambers and rape rooms that CNN admitted they kept secret from you?
I can promise you, there was no better feeling than calling in air on those redheads. Laze and blaze baby!
"my Trump-hatred is a mark of honor and delight, shared with many, many others of various political ideologies but unified by the assurance that we are on the side of sanity and morality and decency."
You keep using those words... but at least you had the decency to leave Honor and Integrity out of your blasphemy.
And if your cause is Righteous, why do you support it with lies? And why the walkback of all your Mueller predictions? Why move the goalposts?
I don't think you really understand what those words mean. You're just posing to compensate for something evil in your private life. Is it over-billing? Or maybe the babysitter?
readering said...
She was probably riled up that the title of first lady, enjoyed by herself and her daughter-in-law, was either going to be passed to a trophy-wife pornographic model or retired altogether.
3/27/19, 3:10 PM
Trophy wife never killed anybody. Maybe that's why Babs looked down on her. Couldn't compete with George's girl.
Is she blaming Trump or blaming Jeb? Jeb was a terrible candidate...
And Trump is a terrible person. Let's put things into perspective here.
Far Left-aligned LLR who calls republican victories "disasters": "..but unified by the assurance that we are on the side of sanity and morality and decency."
Team Infanticide speaks.
Discuss.
I was never a Barbara Bush fan. I never could understood why she looked 10 years older then Nancy Reagan even thought they're the same age. She was actually quite good looking as a young women, but let herself go. I guess.
Anyway, she was even more liberal and elitist then her husband, and the most humorous headline is now: "Barbara didn't consider herself a Republican when she died". And that makes two of us. IRC, she said she voted for Hillary.
Trump is a terrible person, typed the guy who believes 4th trimester abortions are kosher.
Have some scissors.
Run with that.
It’s a farce. Probably done to keep the M person from getting a comment in without them noticing and deleting in a timely fashion. It’s quite obvious now that any sort of commenting standard is merely lip service. I was wondering if she had meant what she said about not making one’s comment be about the person and to address the subject matter substantively, apparently she didn’t. She not consistent, she never has been in all the years I’ve been here. I’m sorry I believed she was being sincere, I should’ve known better.
If a leftist can't exert control over something they try to destroy it.
I have my disagreements with Althouse.
But she doesn't have bad intentions.
You do have bad intentions with your bullshit whining about consistency.
Basic Q reasoning: You attack what you fear.
By 2016, I was tired of dynasties, especially that of the Clintons and Bushes. That said, I'm still amazed at how awful a candidate Hillary was. Even more amazed at how dreadfully bad Jeb Bush was. Even considering how nutty Florida is, how did he get elected there?
...the guy who believes 4th trimester abortions are kosher.
It's always a great sign of how weak someone's position is when they have to put untrue things into other people's mouths.
In any event, at least this person wasn't able to disagree with the fact that Trump's a terrible person. I love it when even liars know they have no choice but to imply agreement with the actual point.
And just when I thought I was done needing to log back in for the day. I guess there's always one in every crowd. Or in every thread.
Barbara gets a pass. Old people get weird, paranoid, willful.
Fen said...
"my Trump-hatred is a mark of honor and delight, shared with many, many others of various political ideologies but unified by the assurance that we are on the side of sanity and morality and decency."
You keep using those words... but at least you had the decency to leave Honor and Integrity out of your blasphemy.
And if your cause is Righteous, why do you support it with lies? And why the walkback of all your Mueller predictions? Why move the goalposts?
I don't think you really understand what those words mean. You're just posing to compensate for something evil in your private life. Is it over-billing? Or maybe the babysitter?
I have nothing to "walkback" regarding Mueller. I have now repeatedly posted the link to my comment from April of 2018, where I stated my expectation that no indictments would come out of any "collusion" suspicions.
As for the last paragraph of your comment; it is one more thing that makes me wonder about what passes the new moderation policy.
"unified by the assurance that we are on the side of sanity and morality and decency."
And yet, everyone here has independently arrived at the conclusion that you are a phony.
How do you reconcile that?
You're at least aware this is the reason you catch so much contempt?
Just come out of the closet. Stop posing as something you aren't. I think you'll find people are willing to give you a chance if you just stop insulting their intelligence with this Moby Republican act. Stop virtue signaling every day about what a good person you surely must be. Show, don't tell.
"Althouse, you imagine Trump-hatred as dark and stultifying. For me, my Trump-hatred is a mark of honor and delight, shared with many, many others of various political ideologies but unified by the assurance that we are on the side of sanity and morality and decency. We can laugh with each other."
Wow.
Re: Jeb and Barbara Bush--"If you can't stand the heat, don't go into the kitchen."
It's really rather simple.
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