Bush's Attorney General Backs Kamala Harris
Source: Political Wire
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales endorsed Kamala Harris in Politico, warning that Donald Trump is perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation.
Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2024/09/12/bushs-attorney-general-backs-kamala-harris/
it's a trend. whose next? Karl Rove? Rick Santorum? Condi Rice?
EYESORE 9001
(27,473 posts)Not exactly a stellar endorsement in my book, but if it gives permission for other repuQs to abandon the orange menace, GOOD!
COL Mustard
(6,861 posts)And wants to back Kamala, I'm all for! We can sort out the policy differences later but we have to preserve the Country.
paleotn
(19,084 posts)EYESORE 9001
(27,473 posts)Lots of folks dig that torture and Im guessing most are already repuQs, so, yes, Ill take their votes. Its time for repuQs to turn their backs on a wannabee dictator and finally - at long last - show their allegiance to the Constitution. All of it - not just the parts they like. This is existential for democracy itself.
Deminpenn
(16,243 posts)Almost enough to have their own group.
Eugene
(62,626 posts)You opened the door to all of this Mr. Gonzales.
I'm more than glad to take votes away from Trump, but I'm not about to paint these criminals as the good guys. They laid the path for someone like Trump to move into the White House. Now they care about the constitution and democracy?
After eight years of that disastrous presidency no one was held accountable. Just because Trump was awful, doesn't mean we've forgotten what those people did to this country. Apparently Gonzales and Cheney think we have.
irisblue
(34,157 posts)American war criminals
tanyev
(44,425 posts)he had while testifying to the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2007. Imagine that.
cactusfractal
(550 posts)... Because he was part of the last threat a generation ago.
We remember.
We fought Dubya, and thought Republicans couldn't get more stupid at the time. Boy, were we wrong.
CaptainTruth
(7,183 posts)Powell was not part of the PNAC, he was not part of their "new Pearl Harbor" plans to "transform the Middle East," he did not help craft their lies about Iraq WMDs. In other words, he was not part of the group that used 9/11 as their "new Pearl Harbor" & pushed lies about Iraqi WMDs as an excuse to invade Iraq & pursue their goal of an "imperial America."
That group needed someone with credibility to push their lies to the world & they used Powell for that purpose. He, like most others in government & most Americans, believed what the PNAC cabal were saying & he presented their "evidence" of WMDs in good faith, believing it was true. It wasn't until much later that he realized he had been deceived & used, & I will not hold that against him.
Sadly, I don't believe most Americans understand what really happened.
CaptainTruth
(7,183 posts)Oooops!
I'm totally out of my time zone right now... need sleep & coffee.
Mme. Defarge
(8,503 posts)or MIHOP?
CaptainTruth
(7,183 posts)The letters they sent to Pres Clinton & Netanyahu before Bush was elected (appointed by SCOTUS) made it clear how badly they wanted that war, & all the warnings sent to the Bush admin that something was coming, some with very specific details, were apparently ignored, or certainly not acted on.
Deminpenn
(16,243 posts)Myabe you've forgotten Powell's full of WMD lies to the UN. I haven't.
CaptainTruth
(7,183 posts)He was definitely deceived & used by the PNAC crew to enable the invasion. They used him as the reputable "face" to deliver their lies.
All evidence I've seen indicates that he acted in good faith, believing that what he was saying was true. (You may remember a whole lot of Democrats in government believed it was true too.) The PNAC lied to him & used him, just like they lied to all of America & the world.
wolfie001
(3,578 posts)That's gonna make some snowflakes melt
KPN
(16,070 posts)LeftInTX
(29,872 posts)I think Rice will likely vote for Kamala, but have no idea whether she will endorse her.
Rove: No. He lives for GOP dirty tricks.
Santorum: Abortion ban. Abortion ban! Trump. Trump.
I think Bush and family will vote for Kamala.
They just aren't endorsing.