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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[–] 66 points 3 days ago (9 children)

That’s actually pretty surprising, and for a conservative - impressive.

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  • [–] 61 points 3 days ago (6 children)

    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

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  • [–] 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

    Agreed - just surprising for me that someone with brand name recognition would make that choice vocally.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 days ago

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 days ago

    "I'm from the Bush family, and his corruption is shocking even to US!"

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  • [–] 39 points 3 days ago* (4 children)

    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 President Donald Trump's bid to overturn the 2020 election "an affront to our democratic institutions."

    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....

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  • [–] 15 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    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!

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  • [–] 37 points 3 days ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 days ago

    They aren’t voting for Talarico as much as voting against that cretin.

    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

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  • [–] 25 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    I had no idea there was a third brother.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Other* brother. I knew about one. Finding out he had another after so many years is blowing my mind.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 days ago

    most polls show Talarico narrowly ahead of Paxton in the closely watched Senate race that could determine party control of the chamber.

    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.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    Damn I thought Jeb! was back

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  • [–] 9 points 3 days ago

    TIL, Neil Bush. That's it. Never heard of him.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 days ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    No child left behind gave us the crop of MAGA voters today. They are all dumb as rocks because of W's policies

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  • [–] 11 points 3 days ago

    Too monstrous for a monstrous family to vote for, that’s quite the accomplishment there, Paxton.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 days ago

    You love to see this kind of thing.

    I hope more old school republicans start coming out and saying this exact thing.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago

    Paxton kicked the anthill when he primaried Cornyn.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Another?! Two spawns of HW was already two too many!

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  • [–] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    If I was a member of a war criminal, I would never show my face in public gathering ever

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    We plundered and waged wars but we at least did it with style

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