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No, because Dick Cheney would zap him with a cattle prod if he did.

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“I think every former President should be available to be an advisor to every sitting President. No matter what their philosophy or anything else,” Card responded. “I think the job of President is so tough. You need all the help you can get. You should get it from people you may not agree with all the time. That’s okay.”

Yeah…your boss was positively famous for reaching out to former Presidents for advice…oh wait! That’s right he wasn’t! He even dismissed and sneered at his father’s advice on how to handle Iraq. And literally laughed off any suggestions from the outgoing Clinton’s on what the issues were they were going to have to deal with.

But hey, if you are busy re-writing history, you might as well go full in.

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Card is a typical ambitious, brown-nosing, ass-protecting, lying POS. It is all on display here. GWBush listened to his ‘gut’ and Dick Cheney. Nobody else.

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As long as Jeb is a candidate the GOP will have to defend GWB’s failures instead of engaging Hillary. While I expect Hillary to win in 2016, unless the GOP cuts Jeb loose the GOP can expect an across the board wipeout.

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“I don’t even think George W. Bush would say, knowing now, he would have made that decision.”

Idea: Someone ask him!

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I agree, but it’s Jebbie’s turn.

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They’ll draft Mittens.

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Dream on. One of the benefits of being a private citizen is to not subject yourself to questions you don’t want to answer. Even so, a deposition at The Hague would be instructive.

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w didn’t have to bungle the question. He bungled the Presidency.

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I swear to whatever god is out there that if I had the resources to do it, I’d see to it Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Condi, et. al., were kidnapped and safely delivered to The Hague’s front doorstep.

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Oh no he dint! Snap! He just said George is really the smarter brother. Them’s fighting words, Jeb. Are you going to take that laying down?

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This is known as “fainting with damp praise.”

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The former White House aide brushed the topic off as “minor” compared to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s issues.

Because Hillary Clinton’s emails are more important than taking the country to war under false pretenses.

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You have to remember Bush aides have had a lot of practice abandoning ship…

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A former top aide to George W. Bush said Wednesday that the former President would’ve cleaned up a bungled response to a question on the invasion of Iraq better than his brother, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush ®, did.

Sure. It would likely have gone something like this:

“Would I attack, knowing what we know now? No, because we now know the knowing. You see - it’s knowing about the knowing that allows us to now know. So, no. Because now we know. You know?”

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Card’s assertion is bull shit!

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Or, damning with faint praise if you’re not W. or Sarah Palin…

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I agree with Andrew Card’s assessment. Many close friends of the Bush family and long time Texas conservatives have known that George W Bush was more intelligent, less corrupt and more charismatic than his brother Jebya Bush.

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“I don’t even think George W. Bush would say, knowing now, he would have made that decision.”

As I recall, last time he answered that question, he answered that he still would have invaded. If that has changed, he should say so.

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