Reply #133: In Texas, Democrats and Republicans seem to blur together

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Lloyd Bentsen, for example, was a Democrat, but he was part of the same business circles as Bush Sr.'s pals Walt Mischer and Jack Trotter. According to my notes, at one point Mischer was the largest single donor to both Bush and Bentsen -- and this was in the 80's, when it looked as though the two of them might even run for president against one another.

I think what it comes to is that business trumps politics with these people every time.