Dubya Won't Stump for GOP
Politico reports:
Former President George W. Bush has no plans to campaign for fellow Republicans and plans to steer clear of becoming entangled in political debate.
“I don’t want to go out and campaign for candidates, ” he said in an interview with C-SPAN airing this weekend. “I don’t want to be viewed as a perpetual money-raiser.”
In 2008, Bush endorsed Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to be his successor but largely stayed out of the race.
Bush’s predecessor, Bill Clinton, has been a master campaigner and fundraiser for Democrats since leaving office, backing his wife Hillary Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 and then stumping for Barack Obama once he became the Democratic Party’s nominee. Clinton appeared on behalf of numerous candidates in the 2010 midterm elections and most recently campaigned for his former aide, Rahm Emanuel, who is running for mayor of Chicago.
Bush also said he has no desire to become a political commentator. “I don’t want to be on these talk shows giving my opinion, second-guessing the current president,” he said. “I think it’s bad for the country, frankly, to have a former president criticize his successor. It’s tough enough to be president as it is without a former president undermining the current president.”
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