What will *'s life be like after he leaves the WH?

[CatWoman]

I really can't see this guy raking up the bucks via speaking engagements.

I really can't see the GOP honor him as an "elder statesman".

I really can't see anyone in his or her right mind employing him in a think tank.

I really can't see the GOP use him to campaign for Republicans in office.


I really can't see him making goodwill trips overseas.

What's the idiot going to do?

[dsc]

1. Live off his investments

and trust me, he will be hired for speaking engagments for the same reason Poppy was, to exploit connections. He won't be on food stamps you can count on that.

[CatWoman]

4. but dsc

His dad can speak.

And his Dad has some credibility.

Bush Jr. has neither attribute.

[rucky]

2. He's got alot of brush to clear

huntin'
fishin'
drinkin'

just like my uncle in Kilgore - give or take a few million dollars.

[napi21]

3. Non-voting board member for Halliburton.

He sure has earned that! Then simply play or pray in Kennibunkport.

You do realize he's not keeping the "ranch" in Tx.

[CatWoman]

5. How do you know that?

You do realize he's not keeping the "ranch" in Tx.

[napi21]

11. Wish I could find the quote, but

I read it on another DU posting several times. Laura has already said she doesn't want to live there permanently, she prefers the city. George is living up to his "created image" of a Texas Cowboy, but doesn't really like that life style.

Maybe the poster who cited this source will repost it here.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

36. There was something in the Dallas Morning News about

shrub and his wife planning on living in the North Dallas area after his defeat. I read this in the print version, maybe someone has a link.

[bacchant]

6. If there's any justice

It will resemble the goings-on in those photos of tortured Iraqi prisoners.

[UTUSN]

7. Oh, He'll Love It

He always said - and I actually BELIEVE this ONE thing - that if he had not succeeded in stealing the office, he would have been happy back in his gated community of robber barons. Now, it will be even sweeter, since he will rake in millions or billions just by showing up at robber baron confabs, and even smoke and drink in the closed lounges. Popping pills and watching football with LIMBOsevic.

[salin]

8. a) go to baseball games

b) backslapping with captains of industry who will give him symbolic positions on their company boards (but will give him no business decision making responsibilities
c) pose for statues erected to him by the looniest members of the religious right who perceive him as some kind of God selected saint
d) be relieved at his inability and unwillingness to read - as it will save him from learning about all the awful new bush bashing books from insiders that will be written
e) deteriorate physically even faster than Poppy (have you seen any pics of GHWB from the past year - he looks ghastly)

f) all of the above

[CatWoman]

10. Hi Salin

:hi:

:loveya:

Long time so see :D

[salin]

16. Sadly I can only grab a couple of DU minutes at a time

have to make the most of them ! :hi:

Oh - forgot on that list... "g) continues unsuccessfully to hide some kind of substance use which continues to be apparent whenever he opens his mouth and utters incoherent, inconsistencies.

[ButterflyBlood]

9. hopefully he'll be rotting in The Hague

n/t

[alittlelark]

43. My hope as well........

.......if there is any justice in the world.

[atre]

12. He's not doing anything now... what's gonna change?

Instead of vacationing 40% of the time, it will be more like 80%.

I doubt he'll experience poverty or anything close to it. He may get a few invites for speaking engagements (with a well-prepared script, of course). It's a virtual certainty that he'll be on a few corporations' boards of directors.

[jmowreader]

13. Twenty to life, hopefully

..

[bobthedrummer]

20. The administration of George W. Bush includes traitors in my American

opinion. We have laws that apply to traitors and criminals, they must be applied to this administration or we are no longer The United States of America.

[Catt03]

14. He will be idolized by the right like Ronald Reagan

Some bunch of Yahoos, with more money than brains, will want to put his face on Rushmore and on our currency. He will be promoted as the the "War President" and the Republicans will insist he be in the same caliber as Roosevelt and Truman.

And...Laura will write the books and give the speeches ..like Nancy...while W rides the grass mower at home on the range.

[trof]

15. Building his library will be pretty easy.

One dog-eared copy of "The Hungry Caterpillar".

[salin]

17. no, two more books will be included:

Karen Hughes's fictional glowing tributes to Bush one written just before each election.

[BrotherBuzz]

18. Will not achieve his dream of becoming...

Baseball commissioner but instead will settle for a part-time job as a third baseline ball dude for a minor league baseball team somewhere in West Texas. Receives payment in beer and hotdogs. Ain't life grand.

[2cents]

19. Segway salesman n/t

[Warpy]

21. He'll have no shortage of appoitnments

...and offers of jobs in which no work is ever expected of him, but for which he will draw a handsome paycheck.

That "ranch" in Crawford will probably be turned over to his daughters, since the rural life has never been for him. Of perhaps he'll offer it to the taxpayers of Texas at triple what it cost him, just to house a dog-eared copy of The Hungry Caterpillar, the one book in his presidential library.

His only speaking circuit will be the fundy circuit. His incoherence will pass easily for speaking in tongues.

[Terran]

22. One of daddy's friends

will be called upon to give him a cushy responsible-sounding job, that will entail lots of golf and trips to Crawford and a $250,000 salary. Bet on it, sweetie!

[CatWoman]

23. Hi, Dirk

:hi:

:loveya:

I should hope that Daddy will one day stop coming to this idiot's rescue.

It's telling that * dissed his Dad in Woodward's book by saying he doesn't look to his Dad for advice. He seeks advice from a higher Father.

What a fucking loon.

[Terran]

24. Hiya!

:hug:

[MisterP]

27. just like his Presidency!

[ThoughtCriminal]

25. Fighting extradition

from Saudi Arabia. As part of the deal, he converts to Islam.

[bucknaked]

26. I see him stuttering as a pitchman for some obscure Japanese Corp

Probably making a killin' at it, too.

[stevedeshazer]

28. Same thing as Dan Quayle, start a museum about himself

http://www.quaylemuseum.org/


Bush can make a killing selling all those leftover Made in Myanmar - Bush-Cheney 2004 white-hooded sweatshirts:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/032004A.shtml

and "Let The Eagle Soar" Ashcroft commemorative CDs in the gift shop:
http://www.symbolman.com/corpabuse.html

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

29. In the traition of another fundamentalist, Pat Boone, he will record the

following covers on a CD:

My Girl Wants to Party All the Time (and dedicate it to Victor Ashe)

I Wanna Be Sedated (with one of the original Ramones,the freeper Dee?)

Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw (a twofer for Victor)

Fight for Your Right (to Party)

Friends In Low Places (which he will sing with feeling upon watching the Kerry inagural)

and for old time's sake and memories:

YOu Dropped a Bomb on Me

and

Life During Wartime


*burp*

[MisterP]

30. his dear friend the jug

[Malva Zebrina]

31. I can see him being employed in think tanks that are run by his daddy's

friends, as he has done for his whole life--he will coast along on his daddy's name in his frat boy elitist manner.

He will think he is absolutely the greatest president ever to be selected.

[PfcHammer]

32. he will succeed Sargent Shriver & head the Special Olympics

[baldguy]

33. Greeter at WalMart.

It's the only thing he's qualified for.

[bvar22]

34. Golfing partner for...

....OJ Simpson, the only person who will still associate with bush*. Cheney, Wolfie, Pearle, Rummie, Condo, Ari, Scott, KKKarl, and Colin ALL distance themselves from the lonely pariah who eventually finds companionship with another world famous sociopath. OJ and W grow old together touring golf courses that empty out when they are seen approaching.

[kskiska]

35. He'll become an ordained evangelical minister

and spend the rest of his days doing tent shows and speaking in tongues. Sister Laura will accompany him. As for the twins, I'm sure they won't go the way of the Nixon girls.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

37. I expect the security concerns for shrub will be greater than any

ex pres in history after invading Iraq. Will probably not be in public much more than today for fear of Muslim assassination attempts I would expect.

[opihimoimoi]

38. Bush gonna crawl into a hole and live in a cocoon for 85762512413 years

The Shame, the Humiliation, the Embarrassment, will make him go bonkers... he is half way there as I type.

[DieboldMustDie]

39. What makes you think he intends to leave?

:scared:

[alittlelark]

44. Java..........I think you hit the nail on the head.

As I was scrolling down the posts I was shocked that it took over 30 to state the obvious. Maybe we don't want to think about it. He will never be an ex-president IMHO, he will either rule, or be dead.:scared:

[Domitan]

40. Never

not if old Tecumseh has anything to say about this.

[jorno67]

41. He will go back to Texas and

start a landscaping business, but after 6 month it will be bankrupt. Then he will try his hand at writing, but his children's book does poorly in sales. Most critics blame it on the title "Jesus,Daddy,WMD's, and Me". After several failed business ventures - fishing lure designer, viagra salesman, motivational speaker, gay porn actor, human shield, and business ethics consultant, just to name few - Shrubs finds his calling by being the guest referee for all WWF cage matches. In fact at one event Baby George was over heard saying "I belong here, them peoples love me, now that's Uh-marry-kuh!"

[PaDUer]

42. He'll go back to TX

and pick up where he left off, beat the shit out of pickles, and hide in his hole because he's marked forever.

[cmd]

45. He'll become a tele-evangelist

and continure his mission to destroy this earth