George H.W. Bush to Formally Endorse Romney
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GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney meets with former President George H.W. Bush in Houston in December. Bush plans to formally endorse Romney for president in Houston on Thursday. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
Former President George H.W. Bush plans to formally endorse Mitt Romney on Thursday, after unofficially throwing his support behind him in December.
Bush and Romney will appear together at an event in Houston and speak to reporters, a Romney spokeswoman told the Associated Press.
Bush offered words of support for the former Massachusetts governor late last year, calling Romney “the best choice for us,” while stopping short of an official endorsement.
Former first lady Barbara Bush has already officially backed Romney, even recording automated phone calls for him during the Ohio primary. Their son, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, endorsed Romney last week and encouraged the party to “unite” around him.
As The Hill pointed out, such endorsements from the Bush family “suggest mainstream Republican heavyweights want the Republican primary to effectively end and for the party to rally around Romney.”
Former President George W. Bush has not backed anyone in the GOP race.
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Comments (79)
Bob DD
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 5:20pmBush is/was an honorable man, however, he is/was a Progressive. David Souter appointment, who sides with the Liberal Digressives on the SCOTUS! Need I say more. Romney is a Progressive-two peas in a pod?
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 5:59pmi thought the republicans had run out of establishment endorsements. i guess theres always a few lying around somewhere
Report Post »West Coast Patriot
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 8:26pmOf course the progressives are going to endorse progressive Romney. What do you expect?
Report Post »mrsmileyface
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 8:54pmOh BOB your history is a little fuzzy there. Bush appointed Souter because Souter marketed himself as a conservative thinker and pretended to side with conservative beliefs. But once he was appointed he took off that mask and reveiled his true side….A Vermont Liberal. And the following day wore his FOOLED YOU t-shirt.
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 10:18pmI don’t think Romney cares about Republicans and Democrats, and I don’t think he has ulterior motives. All he wants to do is lead America to prosperity.
If he were a megalomaniac like Newt he would be constantly praising himself for all of his selfless acts (which are beyond enumeration). Instead, you don’t hear him say a word about any of it, unless he directly questioned. The guy has more hours of service to his fellow man under his belt than the entire Obama administration combined.
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 5:02pmKinda says it all, don’t it?
I’m voting for Obama. It’s all over anyway.
And the RNC should suffer (and die) for the choices they’ve offered up.
Americans need four more years of this; maybe it‘ll make ’em smarter. Or madder. Or *something*. Anything is better than the Status Quo. In change there is hope. Romney is *not* change.
Report Post »bree001
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 5:09pmVote for Obama and America won’t get four more years. http://www.brendasblog7.com/home-page
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:12pmif it is romney, republican party is a lost cause
Report Post »4BlueStars
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 11:33pmAs long as you are cutting off your nose to spite your face you may as well cut off your ears and gouge out your eyes too while you are at it so that you won’t be able to see and hear America in its death throes. Seriously! The nonsense that some of you spout puts liberal Democrats to shame. It is not as if there was some secret cabal of all the Bushes, McCain, McConnell, Boehner and Bill Kristol that got together in some smoke-filled room and conspired to anoint Mitt Romney. We started out with a field of eight candidates, remember? We have had, what, twenty debates and how many primaries and caucuses? And now we’re getting close to the finish line. So at this stage you have to ask yourself, who has the best chance of defeating Obama? Now I am not going to tell you you have to be enthusiastic about Romney if he’s not your guy. Lord knows I wasn’t crazy about McCain. But J.C. Freaking Penny don‘t go to the other side because your guy didn’t win. That’s childish! And I’m talking to you too, Soybomb. If the candidates we have are not good enough for ya’, you run! Do I hear crickets? Exactly! People! There is no perfect candidate! So let me paraphrase the motto of the Rangers: If you’re not going to be enthusiastic at least jump on the wagon. If you can’t do that then stay home out of the way.
Report Post »Ming The Merciless
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 4:26pmBig government insiders (Bush family) backs Romney.
Santorum’s a big government guy too. Why does Glenn like Santorum – I don’t get it. Glenn preaches small government then sides with Santorum.
Just the other day I heard on Beck‘s radio show the guys trying to ’like’ Romney. I don‘t ’get you’ Glenn – you speak out of both sides of your mouth.
Ron Paul 2012!
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 4:47pmI get it.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:13pmbecause nobody likes the messanger
Report Post »riseandshine
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:34pmBecause Glenn’s a..um..what’s that word?.. it starts with sh and rhymes with drill.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 4:06pm.
Report Post »So, George H.W. Bush also said he welcomed the “New World Order.”
and, “Read my lips, no new taxes.”
With endorsements like that, Romney is doomed.
MS-GlenNBC
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 2:30pmGlenn….
Quick… weigh in on this.
Newt Gingrich is the real enemy right? I mean…. Newt Gingrich is the Progressive right?
When Newt was the 3rd most powerful person in the United States he and Clinton spent us into this debt…. Right?
Romney Looks Presidential ( doesn’t wear a tie, open collar, no Jacket, Blue jeans)
Romney Acts Presidential (will not go on your show, or Mark Levins show, never answers a question)
Romney Talks Presidential (stutters and reads from the teleprompter)
Romney campaigns like a President (trash talking with none of his ideas or policies)
The Problem is, Romney is acting like OUR CURRENT President…That is ok, Newt is the real problem right?
OK…. Just needed to clarify…
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:16pmmitt romney doesnt have the guts to take a stand either – strange b/c glenn is always asking us to take stands…
Report Post »http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/risk-averse-romney_634427.html
SwilkG
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:53pmI see this as a “wink” to anyone in the know, the bush family are some power players for the elite globalist agenda. I think old H.W. is saying here “hey this guys playing for us” I strongly believe that these globalists however they can, set up elections so either way it goes they have a player on the field.
Report Post »I have a gut feeling 2012 will be Romney vs. Obama and they don’t care who wins. The 2 choice american political system is the biggest joke ever, just a way to split us 50/50 and give the illusion we are choosing.
The_Jerk
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 2:05pmTwo party system: Fast track to demise, and faster track to demise.
Report Post »Maxim Crux
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:50pmlooks like a another good reason to vote for Santorum
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 2:27pmThat would be true if Santorum didnt vote yes on everything Bush jr. wanted. Or maybe if he didnt vote to raise the debt ceiling 5 times, or be pro Patriot act, or if he did vote yes on the large raise in entitlement spending on record, or if he wasnt pro unconstitutional wars, or maybe if he thought the government should stay out of peoples bedrooms, but that isnt the case.
Santorum, Gingrich, and Romney are clones of Obama. Putting someone like Obama up against Obama is just handing the election to Obama.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:19pmcant we just agree that mitt is not it? the anti-romney folks way outnumber the romney folks – but yet mitt romney is on the verge of snowballing this primary. We Paul supporters need to relax on the santorum thing and focus on romney and our guy
Report Post »P8riot
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:11pm@SOYBOMB315 – let’s face it man, it’s too late. You can say it’s not inevitable all you want, but I think we all know that the primary is winding down.
ROMNEY/RUBIO 2012!
Report Post »Ferrarello
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:43pmNosferatu Endorses Romney ? Wonderful.
Report Post »RJL
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:53pmI just read on the Drudge that the Russian Pravda just called Romney a “a foul-mouthed, big-headed oaf”. They can’t say that about our politicians, only we are aloud in this country to comment on our bafoon politicians.
Enough is enough, start up the B-52′s. Where is Reagan when we need him.
Report Post »CulperGang
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:42pmSenator Prescott Bush(G. Herberts dad) WAS one of the architects of the NWO!!! The Bush family is the enemies within. ALL of them. They are the architect of the 9 1 1 disaster and the implementor. G. Herbert Bushes endorsement is PROOF of the fact that Romney is also an enemy of the US Constitution of We the People….as in part of the NWO cabal.
(there is a huge power struggle now in the NWO camp. ALL of their(rothchilds/Goldman S. crowd….are underfire of SCRUTINY. So they are trying to line up another stooge like Romney ….as Obama is proving to be a big mouth idiot……..and Putin was not as much of a useful idiot as they though he was…yes, Putin was put in power via soros………the lackey of the Roths…….but, Putin turned the tables on the evil dude because, he(evil dude) tried to undermine and get rid of Putin by endorsing under the table Putins adversary. Come on evil dude, Putin wrote the book on “how to get rid of opposition” you think you can get away with yanking your support and trying to put someone else in power,.because Putin had different ideas than being your nwo stooge? Obama is trying to get onto Putins bandwagon because he sees the writing on the wall…….he is about to be yanked by the nwo crowd. STAND ON THE CONSTITUTION. Vote for an OUTSIDER……Paul. THAT WILL PUT THE NAIL IN THE COFFIN FOR THE G. H Bush crowd once and for all. THEN ARREST EVEYRONE IN GOLDMAN SACHS AND THEIR MINIONS ON THE HILL.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:40pmWhen you die from a slow bleed you are just as dead as dying from a gaping hemorrhage. Romney, Bush, Bush… are the former. Obama is the latter. The result is the same. Compromise is betrayal.
Report Post »Redmanblackdog
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:35pmToo bad. I can‘t stand any of the Bush’s. They are all RINOS
George W. just about destroyed the country. If you remember correctly he added 3 Trillion dollars to the debt, he signed the affordable housing act, and the community reinvestment act (leading to the housing downfall). He was responsible for “no child left behind” (hows that working out for ya).
He wrote more regulations, pass bigger government.
Romney should be running from the likes of either George Bush, and McCain!
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:44pmWhy, birds of a feather flock together.
There has been no real change from first Bush, to Clinton, to second Bush to Obama. They are all the same. The spending continues, the debt rises, the wars dont stop, and freedoms are taken away. When will the other 95% of the country realize this.
With Romney as the candidate, Obama wins in a landslide. Oh and to all of you genius who believe the Senate is more important, remember this White House does most of its work without Congress. They have practically made them irrelevant. Czars and regulators have all the power now.
We need to go back to the Constitution and there is only one candidate in the race that will do that.
Ron Paul 2012.
Report Post »tropolis
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:28pmI never understood why the anti-Romney crowd is going to line up like slaves and vote for who the GOP master tells them for.
I will not vote for Romney, he was as far left or further in Mass then Obama is now.
If Obama ends up being reelected, so be it. There is no difference between the two.
Report Post »DaveOregon
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:33pmAgree – this is not a “ringing endorsement”! Romney is going to continue to be “vetted” out as the Liberal in republican clothes he is – GO FOR THE OPEN CONVENTION!!!!
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:22pmNow I am very concerned… If I were Romney I would not want Bush endorsing me.. Especially Bush Sr. He is all about the NWO!! Lord help us!
Report Post »MS-GlenNBC
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 2:53pmAre you starting to wake up?
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:12pmDon’t kid yourselves….romney is a white obamamama…. waaaay to elitist for us normal AMERICANS. With romney, the left wins anyway.
GOD has not yet raised up HIS candidate… PRAY ON, AMERICA.
Report Post »TRONRADIO
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:10pmIt’s damn sad that we have to settle for such a weak, flip-flopping, thin-skinned person for a GOP candidate. You’d think after 2010, we would have done better. Alas, but nevertheless,
GOP 2012
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:38pmTron, how can you complain about Romney? He and Santorum are practically clones. The only real difference between them is the health care mandate. Outside of that the both agree on the spending, debt, wars, and taking of American freedoms for security.
We have our chance at a brokered convention. We have to seize that opportunity and vote in a guy that is a stark contrast from Obama. We all know there is only one candidate in the race that honestly offers a different plan than Obama and the clones.
Ron Paul 2012. I am voting for him in November. The GOP candidate cannot beat Obama without the Ron Paul supporters and only one candidate is going to get the Ron Paul supporters. The choice is clear. Its time for mutiny to correct our course from the establishment, media, lobbyist, and talking heads.
Report Post »Zoe
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:03pmSup with the poodle?
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:59pmEstablishment supporting establishment….wow, I’m so schocked.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:03pm“shocked” for those who cannot make that mental leap in their heads.
Report Post »NHwinter
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:03pmThe Bushs are NWO people, so an endorsement from them is not good.
Report Post »MS-GlenNBC
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 3:02pmNo No No…………
As you have heard Glenn, Pat and others on the Blaze…
We don’t like Romney …….. Because we are B I G O T S !!!! That is why we don’t support him..
I’m a bigot, you’re a bigot, we all are bigots, wouldn’t you like to be a bigot too?
Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot Bigot
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 8:21pmi must be a bigot AND a racist – oh well. At least i have reasons for supporting people and not supporting the others. Most romney supporters just think he is a nice cup of tea or something
Report Post »P8riot
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 9:08pm@MS-GLENNBC and SOY – Stop with the pity party. You guys complain more than Santorum (which is hard to do).
You’ve never been called bigots for opposing Romney over policy. You’ve been called bigots when you oppose Romney over religion. If Obama’s race was ANY sort of factor in deciding to vote for him, then yes, that would be racist… just like if religion is ANY sort of factor in deciding to vote for Romney, then yes, that would be bigoted. A person‘s religion and a person’s race has NOTHING to do with how they will govern (e.g. Romney and Reid and Clarence Thomas and Obama).
People, let’s face it, (Soy) Ron Paul has some great ideas but will NEVER be elected; and (msglennbc) as for Newt… wait… Newt who?
Man up and get ready to vote for Romney.
Report Post »Micmac
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:54pmMitt, welcome to Agenda 21…let me tell you about it.
GWHB
NoBama 2012
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:53pmI’m a Romney supporter now too. Of course, if Elmer Fudd was running against Obama I would have an Elmer 2012 sign in my yard, but I’m a Romney supporter. Everybody needs to get on board, it’s the only train leaving the station..
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:56pmWell, Romney is just about anything but conservative, but if he is the candidate I will certainly vote for him. I do like your suggestion of Elmer Fudd though. I think that it was BIKERR a few weeks ago who said that he would vote for Casey Anthony over 0bama any day. Have to agree with him and will certainly stay with the premise of “Anybody But 0bama.”
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:59pmRJ, he’s our guy, I didn’t vote for him, but he’s our guy. I’m going try to stop bashing him…but it’s hard. He’s better than the fool we have anyway.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:05pmGONZO, Yep, will stop bashing him too. Hopefully after the next election we will have a decent congress that will send him the proper bills to be signed, AND bills to repeal a lot of what Pelosi, Reid, and 0bama have stuck us with.
Report Post »LOL, our dog leaves things around the yard that are better than our current president.
noproblems
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:08pmtrain to nowhere.
What is it like being a lemming?
Report Post »Zoe
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:10pmLast Man Standing Gets the Vote!
Somebody find a Bulldog as a mascot though……..
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:14pmNOPROBLEMS, Lemmings? Just how deep is your head stuck in your fourth point of contact? We have been discussing how most of us do not care for this endorsement, and how we are not all that happy with the titular candidate. In fact, we are not all that happy with most in the run now. Now, just how is that being a lemming? Talk about Lemmuals (that’s the buck tooth dumb@$$ variety of lemming running over the cliff) such as the Dems who will follow 0bama over the cliff happily. With that stupidity you can very well bite my @$$!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 1:25pmSo you’re voting for Obama Nobrains?
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 2:34pmSorry to hear that. I will not vote for a guy no much different from Obama. I will not take the lesser of two evils. I will vote for the only man with true principles in this election. Either the GOP sheep can get on board at the brokered convention or they can accept Obama as king, because this is our last election we have.
Report Post »MS-GlenNBC
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 2:39pmDon’t sellout until he has the votes…..
Then, you can stand Against all your principles and morals and support Willard and the Republican Establishment Progressive Party, REPP.
We still don’t know anything about Romney…. He has not been vetted yet…..
The Vetting of Romney seems to have been trashing all other candidates.. in 08 and 12….
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 2:42pmNo Gonzo, like Martinez012577 above he is living in some kind of fantasy world where Ron Paul is going to magically win the election and save us all…
These people just do not get it. They do not fully understand how things work. In their own ignoirance they lash out at everyone else. I have gone from trying to straighten them out to feeling sorry for them to now just laughing at their stupidity…Whatever…
ABO
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 6:37pm@TROLL
Laugh all you like, Ron Paul is still gaining delegates and our only chance at freedom is a brokered convention. I am under no illusion that Ron Paul will get 1144 delegates. I had hoped before the voting it was possible, but now I see the GOP people are just as dumb as the Dems.
Report Post »P8riot
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 8:55pm@Gonzo – I knew I liked you!
I know we all remember when this all started and Bachman, Perry, Paul, Huntsman, Santorum, Cain, Romney, and Gingrich (am I missing anyone?) all stood on the same stage and EVERYONE agreed that any one of the GOP candidates would be better than Obama. I think we all need to remember that now that a candidate is VERY close to sealing the deal.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:50pm.
…………George H.W. Bush to Formally Endorse Romney…………..
Another reason to Vote SpankDaMonkey 2012……….
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:53pmSpanky, you certainly would make a better write in vote than anybody we have running!
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:54pmwell i for one don’t care who adorse whom……….i am voting for ABO
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 2:21pmMy only Question SPANKDAMONKEY is
Report Post »Do YOU have any RINO Endorsments Yet ?
Tri-ox
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:44pmStupid.
Report Post »Obama Snake Oil Co
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:39pmDon’t worry about that “HI” guy….
Report Post »barber2
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:37pmAm sure the Democrats have their Character Assassination Squad preparing The Target Romney material. Gail Collins,of the NYT , will be repeating another of her so worn our “dog ” columns. If only they would review Obama’s Marxist mentors/ Occidental College/missing school records !
Report Post »70mach
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:37pmA formal indorsement from the NWO!! How sweet!!
Report Post »hi
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:29pmWatch Santorum soar now!!
Report Post »PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
Posted on March 28, 2012 at 12:43pmNext bill ‘the moral corrupter’ clinton will endorse…or has he?
Leon, mexico is starting to look good compared to this country.
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