It really comes to something when even ‘W’ won’t participate in the presidential campaign for his own party!
Spokesmen for former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush told The Texas Tribune the Bushes won’t be on the list of Trump endorsers.
“At age 91, President Bush is retired from politics,” a spokesman for Bush 41 told The Texas Tribune. “He came out of retirement to do a few things for Jeb, but those were the exceptions that proved the rule.”
And his son Bush 43? No plans either.
He “does not plan to participate in or comment on the presidential campaign,” a spokesman for Bush 43 told the Tribune.
And Cameron…
…has said he “respects” the controversial presidential candidate Donald Trump for making it through the gruelling Republican primary process.
The prime minister refused to retract his claim, made when a Trump candidacy still seemed an unlikely prospect, that the billionaire’s proposal for banning Muslims from the US was “stupid, divisive and wrong”.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/05/david-cameron-donald-trump-deserves-respect
Well that’s alright then! Trump has gotten to the top of one particular dung heap, and Cameron respects him for it. Hoorah.
By: John Green - 6th May 2016 at 10:27
Re5
It was clumsy then and it is clumsy now. It jarred then and it jars now.
Smart#rse
By: charliehunt - 6th May 2016 at 08:45
Useful insider input but that last paragraph certainly resonates and which is probably why a lot of people vote Farage here. He is the outspoken no holds barred non-establishment figure, although in this case in our multi-party system, he and his party are outsiders whereas in the States Trump is the outsider within his party.
By: J Boyle - 6th May 2016 at 07:57
If you know American politics it’s not a surprise at all.
Trump nomination will either…
-Damage the party
-Restore it to the White House.
Retired Republicans like the Bush family (who are looking to protect their images) and those like Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (who hopes to have a long career and eventually occupy the Presidency some day) are going to stay quiet until they have a better idea of what’s going on.
I know many of you see Trump as a comic book villain, (no doubt fostered by the UK media that doesn’t have a good word to say about him) but th his election has more to do with the state of the Republican party…a schism between the more conservative elements (many members think McCain and Romney were too liberal) and the more pragmatic wing who realised that a far right candidate won’t be elected…thus a liberal conservative in the White House is better than a liberal liberal. Romney got fewer votes from the party faithful because some are so wedded to their beliefs, they stayed home in 2012 (helping to ensure an Obama victory) than compromise by voting for a conservative who they saw as too liberal. I also suspect some anti-Mormon sentiment also played a part among the Far right religious block.
On top of that, many are just fed of of the establishment, and are supporting Trump because he’s an outsider. The top party officials and the conservative media don’t like Trump for a variety of reasons…Probably because they can’t control him.
By: charliehunt - 6th May 2016 at 06:00
So predictable!! If you ARE writing in Elisabethan English then at least be consistent. It’s all or nothing Snafu!
By: snafu - 5th May 2016 at 22:17
Ah, a fine American, that Shakespeare.
By: Meddle - 5th May 2016 at 20:04
No. It’s because he’s illiterate !
He was gotten in drink: is not the humour conceited?
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 1, Scene 3. A room in the Garter Inn.
Tw*t.
By: snafu - 5th May 2016 at 19:57
Do you write the American form “gotten” because you are writing about an American subject?
Just to mess with your mind, Charlie.
By: John Green - 5th May 2016 at 18:23
No. It’s because he’s illiterate !
By: charliehunt - 5th May 2016 at 17:32
Do you write the American form “gotten” because you are writing about an American subject?
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