George W. Bush's brother trashes Paxton, says he voted for Talarico
Former President George W. Bush’s brother, Neil Bush, has revealed he voted for Democratic candidate James Talarico for U.S. Senate in Texas, calling Donald Trump's bid to overturn the 2020 election "an affront to our democratic institutions."
"I voted early today, and I voted for James Talarico for the United States Senate," the Texan businessman wrote in a post on Facebook on Tuesday in a snub to Republican candidate Ken Paxton.
The 71-year-old son of former Republican President George H. W. Bush and chair of his father's nonprofit Points of Light, wrote that while he has been a Republican for most of his life, character “matters more than party affiliation.”
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"I'm from the Bush family, and his corruption is shocking even to US!"
That’s actually pretty surprising, and for a conservative - impressive.
Paxton being a piece of shit is a non-partisan thing. There's even a commercial with a former Republican state representative advocating for Talarico
Agreed - just surprising for me that someone with brand name recognition would make that choice vocally.
The Texas legislature also tried (but failed) to impeach him. An FBI inquiry into his office had the deaths of two major whistleblowers. Man is corrupt af and probably in some sort of cartel/gang thing. He is not liked and he should not be allowed anywhere near political power so I expect Texas will elect him.
He was impeached. But then he was acquitted by Republicans.
Don't count texas out. Talarico is polling well and currently has highest levels of early voting in a non presidential election in texas history.
Modern partisan politics seem to require GOP candidates to be pieces of shit.
The only consistent policy of today's Republicans is to do whatever will make sensible people push back, which has led to a party full of pedophiles, criminals, corruption, incompetence, and treason.
I mean, I live in Missouri, Josh Hawley being a piece of shit is a non-partisan thing. But the second it comes to choices, they'd rather that instead of voting for democrat.
I'll give credit for a conservative doing the bare minimum. It is very difficult for them to remove their lips from the asses of the party leadership.
It fucking shouldn’t be. Democrats are perfectly “conservative” enough for corpos and even farmers. Republicans want to kill poors through legislation.
MAGA hates the Bushes. This is just a quick moneymaking story, not really news as such.
That's an interesting take given how George W "won" the election against Gore by having the conservative majority SCOTUS stop the Florida re-count effectively handing W the presidency. Final counts have shown Gore would have won if the recount wasn't stopped "because it was taking too long". They would have finished within a day....
Come on now, they had to stop the counting. Don't you remember the Brooks Brothers Riot? There were acts of violence! People were rioting! Well, not people as such, Republican Staffers mainly, at the direction of Roger Stone. But still, something had to be done!
The wikipedia page has more information for those who want to know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Brothers_riot
The amount of government malfeasance that just sails past so many many many people here is disheartening.
And W's other brother was governor of Florida at the time. No conflict of interest there!
Well when you have armed gunmen storm a voting center and those in power in Florida not holding them responsible. Votes don't get counted
Paxton is truly a lizard person.
They aren’t voting for Talarico as much as voting against that cretin.
Why the TX GOP went along with this is amazing to me. Haha just kidding. The TX GOP is litterally all lizard people.
They don't want two Ted Cruz representing Texas. Talarico is someone you can negotiate with. Cornyn was, too. Paxton is just a stubborn climbing sociopath who only knows how to turn rightward
I had no idea there was a third brother.
There's also Marvin, you can always tell a Milford Man
I still can't confirm his existence as I haven't seen or heard him.
I've made a huge mistake
He's the Guiseppe.
Other* brother. I knew about one. Finding out he had another after so many years is blowing my mind.
I'm with you there.
Good on Neil Bush for speaking his conscience on this. Regardless of his personal beliefs, he spoke up. And he deserves credit for that.
Texans who vote for Ken Paxton are a complete disgrace to their state and to their country.
Damn I thought Jeb! was back
Love the screen name
Please crap.
I’m crapping while I read this.
TIL, Neil Bush. That's it. Never heard of him.
It's a bad look ik the most nepotist neo conservative enablers look like the sane people in the room. GW was a massive idiot who ruined many things about the America people yearn for nowadays.
No child left behind gave us the crop of MAGA voters today. They are all dumb as rocks because of W's policies
Turns out we were right about Bush all along. We just didn't realize the consequences.
I don't know many MAGA voters who are 18-26.
I know a lot of them who are 65+, though. We can't blame NCLB for their idiocy.
I was trying to think of a good way to convey exactly this.
You should wonder why they're okay with democrats of today instead of doubling down that these ghouls must be sane now.
Too monstrous for a monstrous family to vote for, that’s quite the accomplishment there, Paxton.
You love to see this kind of thing.
I hope more old school republicans start coming out and saying this exact thing.
Paxton kicked the anthill when he primaried Cornyn.
If I was a member of a war criminal, I would never show my face in public gathering ever
But America loves its war criminals
Wut
Another?! Two spawns of HW was already two too many!
This is getting out of hand. Now there are
twothree of themWe plundered and waged wars but we at least did it with style
I'll just leave this here.