By Lindsey Ellerson

Oct 24, 2008 3:02pm

Bush Casts Early ’08 Vote for McCain

ABC News’ Jon Garcia Reports: The President and Mrs. Bush cast their ballots Friday for the 2008 election during the early voting process, according to an email from White House Press Secretary Dana Perino.

"For months the President has said he supports John McCain for president and of course he voted for him," said Perino.

The ballots will be mailed back to Texas Friday.  The Bushes plan to be at the White House on election night.

The president officially endorsed Senator John McCain for president the day after the Arizona Republican secured the GOP nomination.  While Bush and McCain have a storied history, having run against one another in the 2000 presidential primaries, Bush invited McCain to the White House on March 5, 2008, to present a united party message.  While McCain extended an invitation to Bush to join him on the campaign trail, the President has not appeared at any rallies with the GOP nominee.  Bush has, however, offered a lending hand with the fundraising.

"There’s an appropriate amount of campaigning for me to do," said Bush upon McCain’s White House visit.

While he did not directly suggest that his low numbers in the polls could damage McCain’s chances in the race, the President did signal that it was a possibility.

"If my showing up and endorsing him helps him, or if I’m against him and it helps him — either way, I want him to win."

User Comments

Police tell KDKA that a campaign volunteer has now confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter B in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.

Posted by: becky | October 24, 2008, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm

The greatest president that ever lived …
is not Bush.

Posted by: Reason | October 24, 2008, 3:13 pm 3:13 pm

shocking!

Posted by: Angie | October 24, 2008, 3:17 pm 3:17 pm

New campaign commercial idea…
Title, “Bushed”
Voice over*
Do we really want the man that George Bush wants to win in the White House”
*Cut away to Bush casting his early vote*
Voice over*
After 8 years of failure, the right pick to carry on this man’s legacy, is the wrong choice for America
I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message!!!

Posted by: Politics | October 24, 2008, 3:19 pm 3:19 pm

bush the gift that keeps on giving to john mccain’s campaign.

Posted by: SeeingABetterWorld | October 24, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

After McCain threw him under the Bus this week? McCain would throw his own mother under a Bus to win this thing.

Posted by: becky | October 24, 2008, 3:20 pm 3:20 pm

That just about seals the deal for us. We cannot bring ourselves to do anything Bush. ……………..
http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/10/21/the-prophecy-of-barack-obama/

Posted by: Ohg Rea Tone | October 24, 2008, 3:21 pm 3:21 pm

TIM RUSSERT: The fact is you are different than George Bush.
SEN. McCAIN: No. No. The fact is that I have agreed with President Bush far more than I have disagreed. And on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I’ve been totally in agreement and support of President Bush.

Posted by: One in the McSame | October 24, 2008, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm

VOTE FOR OBAMA, IF YOU DON’T YOU WILL KICK THE SHT OUT OF YOURSELF!

Posted by: GIGI | October 24, 2008, 3:28 pm 3:28 pm

Life mirrors art. Wasn’t this reported on Saturday Night Live just last night?

Posted by: Mortimer Snerd | October 24, 2008, 3:29 pm 3:29 pm

don’t worry. The other 20,000 George Bush’s registered by ACORN will vote for Obama.

Posted by: geevill | October 24, 2008, 3:34 pm 3:34 pm

I wonder if Bush really did vote for McCain.
Anyway, we know where Bush’s past Whitehouse spokesman support goes.

Posted by: Paul | October 24, 2008, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm

GIGI
Iwonder how many more Mccain supporters will beat the crap out of themselves and carve their face up, I cant stop laughing this stuff is getting funnier and funnier!

Posted by: Angie | October 24, 2008, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm

I was just attacked by Joe the plumber for wearing an Obama button!!! He tried to carve a “P” on my buttocks with his plunger!

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 24, 2008, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm

What a surprise!! Who really cares who Pres. Bush votes for?

Posted by: Lisa | October 24, 2008, 3:45 pm 3:45 pm

I am sure that this is welcome news for McCain…LOL!
This is coming on the heels of the SNL skit. Too funny!!!
I wonder who Jenna Bush voted for? I bet you she voted for Obama.

Posted by: Nancy | October 24, 2008, 3:47 pm 3:47 pm

Ofcourse Bush wants Mccain to win so Mccain can carry out his 3 term and continue his Policies!

Posted by: Angie | October 24, 2008, 3:48 pm 3:48 pm

We all have a reason why we want one ot the candidates to win.
McCain and Bush both are sailing on the same boat.

Posted by: FM | October 24, 2008, 3:52 pm 3:52 pm

Well there you go, I’ve always said that Bush and McCain were like brothers jointed at the hip. Besides, who would still vote fro Obama after one of his goons cut that poor woman’s face?

Posted by: JR | October 24, 2008, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm

Bush should return the favor to McCain. After all, McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time!

Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 24, 2008, 3:57 pm 3:57 pm

Oh really ? , really ?…. Dubya is lucky we don’t have intelligent test’s anymore for voting. Maybe we should after the last 8 years.
Ex Republican

Posted by: RGeier | October 24, 2008, 3:58 pm 3:58 pm

Bush and McCain are sailing on the same boat alright, and it is the Titanic!

Posted by: William J. LePetomaine | October 24, 2008, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm

Bet she voted for Obama LOL

Posted by: Grissom | October 24, 2008, 4:03 pm 4:03 pm

JR you haven’t been watching the news have you the police found out she lied nobody attacked her at all she made it all up. It just figures that another lie comes out from Joe the Plumber to this girl lying about this unbeliveable lies are lies and McCain has a sack full of them. Don’t trust a man that finked on his own POW buddies. He is a coward.

Posted by: FHU | October 24, 2008, 4:06 pm 4:06 pm

“don’t worry. The other 20,000 George Bush’s registered by ACORN will vote for Obama.”

MULTIPLE REGISTRATIONS DOES NOT ALLOW A PERSON TO VOTE MORE THAN ONCE. “REGISTRATION FRAUD” AND “VOTER FRAUD” ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.

Posted by: Reason | October 24, 2008, 4:07 pm 4:07 pm

“Anyway, we know where Bush’s past Whitehouse spokesman support goes.”
I’ll take “Bush Cronies for Obama!” for 500…

Posted by: Cliff | October 24, 2008, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm

“MULTIPLE REGISTRATIONS DOES NOT ALLOW A PERSON TO VOTE MORE THAN ONCE. “REGISTRATION FRAUD” AND “VOTER FRAUD” ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.”
Yes, except that both are “fraud” and both have been designed to put Barack Obama into office.
Do you deny this…?

Posted by: Cliff | October 24, 2008, 4:19 pm 4:19 pm

I wish people would just realize that McCain IS NOT BUSH. It seems silly, and it seems just like a way for Obama supporters to endorse Obama. With that said, both of them are not exactly great.

Posted by: laceface | October 24, 2008, 4:20 pm 4:20 pm

MULTIPLE REGISTRATIONS DOES NOT ALLOW A PERSON TO VOTE MORE THAN ONCE. “REGISTRATION FRAUD” AND “VOTER FRAUD” ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS
it allows non-existent “voters” to vote.

Posted by: geevill | October 24, 2008, 4:23 pm 4:23 pm

ACORN knows you can’t vote illegally unless you are registered illegally.

Posted by: geevill | October 24, 2008, 4:24 pm 4:24 pm

“I wish people would just realize that McCain IS NOT BUSH.”
Most of them do, privately. But when you’ve got an election to win and your candidate is sliding in the polls, you resort to such strategies as “throwing stuff out there to see what sticks” and “scandal of the day”.
Why? Because if people really understand who the real Barack Obama is and what he stands for, a politician steeped in Chicagoland liberal philosophy with a somewhat brief state and federal voting record to match, then Americans would not elect the guy.

Posted by: Cliff | October 24, 2008, 4:27 pm 4:27 pm

Don’t let the obmababots fool you. Most people know McCain is not Bush. They also know that Obama is not Hillary Clinton. Which is why many Democrats are voting for McCain but not telling pollsters

Posted by: geevill | October 24, 2008, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm

No one is voting for McShame. The only one stupid enough to vote for McShame is…… Bush!
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 24, 2008, 4:39 pm 4:39 pm

geevill and cliff – we all also know that McCain was asked how much he differed from Bush back in the primaries, and he responded on tape that on all the important issues, he supported the president’s positions.
So there, lol.

Posted by: Paul | October 24, 2008, 4:41 pm 4:41 pm

JoeSchmoe: “I was just attacked by Joe the plumber for wearing an Obama button!!! He tried to carve a “P” on my buttocks with his plunger!”
Oh, come on. At least make it believable. Say you were attacked by Senator Hothead himself, who tried to carve a ‘W’ in your cheek.

Posted by: Paul | October 24, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm

There is too much stuff out there and suspicions about Obama. Even if they might not be true, it is still a question. Where is his birth certificate? All of that yada-yada. Do all of you Obama voters just not want to admit or see that? I mean come on, it is for YOUR safety too. At least the Republicans can see this and use their brains. Face the facts.

Posted by: laceface | October 24, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm

I mean, Joe the plumber seems like he has a little self control. Now McCain attacking an Obama volunteer, that I could believe.

Posted by: Paul | October 24, 2008, 4:44 pm 4:44 pm

Nut jobs and conspiracy theorists, thats all McShame has left.
President Obama! Get used to it!

Posted by: Independent realist | October 24, 2008, 4:46 pm 4:46 pm

laceface – lol, are you seriously saying that us Obama supporters aren’t concerned for our own welfare because we’re backing a candidate who someone says is:
a Manchurian Muslim
a radical Christian
the anti-Christ
a foreigner
a terrorist
Maybe it just means we’re, oh I don’t know, sane?
Though I have to admit, the anti-Christ one caused me a little concern. I spent all three debates up against the screen of my TV looking for that mark of the beast, lol.

Posted by: Paul | October 24, 2008, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm

laceface: Google “Obama’s birth certificate”

Posted by: samurai | October 24, 2008, 4:49 pm 4:49 pm

Also google: “Obama vanguard of the alien invasion from the planet Xununu.”

Posted by: Paul | October 24, 2008, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm

Oh trust me, I do not think he is the antichrist! You people take things so literally! All I am saying to the Obama supporters is: Can you explain and convince someone that Obama is not dangerous at all? Explain to me, I would like to know! No need to get upset.
I think America is in God’s hands and whatever is meant to happen will.
God Bless America

Posted by: laceface | October 24, 2008, 4:56 pm 4:56 pm

In what way would Obama be more dangerous than hot-headed “bomb bomb bomb Iran” McCain?

Posted by: samurai | October 24, 2008, 5:00 pm 5:00 pm

Well, would you prefer Iran to “bomb bomb bomb us”
?
That was not convincing, haha!

Posted by: laceface | October 24, 2008, 5:02 pm 5:02 pm

wonder how bush feels after voting for mccain—and then being thrown under the bus.i thought they were like brothers—twin brothers.

Posted by: rodney | October 24, 2008, 5:03 pm 5:03 pm

geeville
you should get in line with the rest of the repubs going over to obama—get a good seat get in line–stop being stupid —we all love a winner.

Posted by: rodney | October 24, 2008, 5:06 pm 5:06 pm

I’m a registered Democrat who’s also voting early for McCain-Palin.

Posted by: DemocratVotingForMcCain-Palin | October 24, 2008, 5:11 pm 5:11 pm

BFD

Posted by: samurai | October 24, 2008, 5:12 pm 5:12 pm

mccain now says he has the experience to deal with foreign countries—is that like singing for the north vietnamese—better known as the songbird.

Posted by: rodney | October 24, 2008, 5:18 pm 5:18 pm

Still on ACORN ‘issue’ eh? Here is a genuine election rigger (he went to jail for it). He worked for the republicans, and notes also another incident when republicans committed election rigging.
Ok heres the deal, the guy with EXPERIENCE of election rigging says that he thinks ACORN has been victimized by the people they hired.
Note he is not on a ‘liberal’ media show its the republicans ‘bastion of truth’ FOX!:
http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=3161423&referralPlaylistId=949437d0db05ed5f5b9954dc049d70b0c12f2749
There you have it, if its on FOX it must be true…
So please, give it a rest repukes. We know you’re desperate, you know you’re desperate. Everyone knows.
So lets just give the B.S a rest.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 24, 2008, 5:26 pm 5:26 pm

“Ok heres the deal, the guy with EXPERIENCE of election rigging says that he thinks ACORN has been victimized by the people they hired.”
Yep, there’s nothing like an election rigger sticking up for other election riggers…

Posted by: Cliff | October 24, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm

I am a 69 year old gay man and voted yesterday straight democrat. How any woman, black,or gay person can for for the crazies I just don’t ubderstand and stupid.

Posted by: jerroy | October 24, 2008, 6:45 pm 6:45 pm

Yep, there’s nothing like an election rigger sticking up for other election riggers…
Posted by: Cliff
You mean: there’s nothing like a REPUBLICAN election rigger sticking up for other election riggers…

Posted by: JoeShmoe | October 24, 2008, 7:43 pm 7:43 pm

“You mean: there’s nothing like a REPUBLICAN election rigger sticking up for other election riggers…”
Either way works for me… :)

Posted by: Cliff | October 24, 2008, 9:19 pm 9:19 pm

McCain has been AmBush..ed!
Thats a Pal…ling reality!
Now lets all go and watch Sean Sannity onthe Fox hunting show, sorry moose hunting show, on election night.It will be a total Insanity!
Oooops, sorry, mistake we wont see him. He will be busy paling around with Sahara in a desert somewhere.Lick,lick,lick. no hic, hic hic!Poor Todd’s now a frog leaping on solace from the Alska independant party, wondering what more surprises to come fro wife and daughter.Well at least he can get some Cinder, nop Cider(whats happening to my english today? must be the MacPain effect)in bed.

Posted by: His Excellency Pisspot the First | October 24, 2008, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm

AS MARTIN LUTHER KING SAID, YOU SHOULD NOT JUDGE A MAN BY THE COLOR OF HIS SKIN
BUT BY THE CONTENT OF HIS CHARACTER
MCCAIN IS BUSH?
LET SEE WHO IS OBAMA?
FRIENDS – AYERS (terrorist), WRIGHT (anti-white racist), REZKO (convicted felon)
FOREIGH EXPERIENCE – UNCONDITIONAL MEETING WITH AHMADINEJAD
SENATE EXPERIENCE – 100 WEEKS, 100% PARTIZAN VOTE
ECONOMIC MESSAGE -”SPREAD THE WEALTH AROUND”
POLITICAL PLATFORM -”TAXES TO FUND SOCIALISTIC WELFARE”
MIDDLE EAST – “UNDIVIDED JERUSALEM – NEXT DAY CHANGED HIS MIND”
IRAQ -”FORFEIT A VICTORY”
ACORN – “VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD”
OBAMA SAYS: “YES WE CAN”
MCCAIN SAYS: “YES WE WILL”
THIS IS NOT A TIME TO TAKE A RISK WITH LIBERAL ROOKIE – MCCAIN IS THE RIGHT CHANGE WE NEED

Posted by: LostDemocray | October 24, 2008, 11:18 pm 11:18 pm

I bet John would have rather had Bush vote for Obama..

Posted by: Florida for Obama | October 25, 2008, 12:22 am 12:22 am

ACORN is so last week.. this week it’s “obama is just like bush”.. I guess some of you missed the memo.

Posted by: Concerned American | October 25, 2008, 12:25 am 12:25 am

Listening to the mainstream media these last few days I’ve learned a few things about the GOP’s VP nominee.
1. From the media I learned Sarah Palin’s husband has a DUI conviction from 22 years ago.
On my own, I learned that Ted Kennedy (hero of last month’s tribute at the DNC) was drunk while driving a car off a bridge in Chappaquiddick in 1969. That same crash killed a young campaign volunteer with whom he was having an affair. Oh, and that young woman was pregnant with his child.
* Mr. Palin’s (who is NOT running for office) DUI came a mere 4 years after Barack Hussein Obama (who IS running for president) SUPPOSEDLY stopped using cocaine and marijuana (by his own admission in his autobiography).
Shocking – It’s OK for the presidential candidate to use drugs, or the Democrat party patriarch to kill someone while driving drunk, yet the husband of a VP candidate should be demonized for something done 22 years ago?????
2. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin’s daughter is pregnant.
* On my own I learned that Obama’s mother was an unmarried street hippy in Honolulu , Hawaii, when she conceived Obama.
* On my own I learned that Joe Biden’s (Democrat VP candidate) son was paid a large amount of money as a consultant to a credit card company, MBNA.
That SAME company had business before Senator Joe Biden concerning regulation of consumer credit practices. After the company paid a hefty sum to Mr. Biden’s son, he voted in favor of legislation to help that company!!! That same son, Hunter, is also engaged in a legal investigation and suit for defrauding a former business partner!
*Shocking! It’s a crime for the republican VP candidate to have a child who’s pregnant even though it’s irrelevant to how she performs her job, but it’s OK if the Democrat Presidential candidate’s unwed mother conceived him out of wedlock, and it’s OK, however, for the Democrat VP candidate to vote in favor of a company who paid his son over a quarter of a million dollars?????
3. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin should be considered “selfish” for agreeing to run for VP knowing about her daughter’s condition. Knowing that at her public role would bring extra scrutiny on the family is selfish and she should have declined, to protect her child (actually heard this on ABC this weekend).
*Strange! The same people who said Sarah is selfish for running for VP did not care about any impact on Chelsea when Bill Clinton had his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky. That was a private, personal matter you see. Oh, that’s right….these things do not apply to the Democrats in power!! Silly me!!
4. From the media I have learned to be “concerned” that Sarah Palin probably won’t be able to manage her family and do an effective job of being VP at the same time.
*Funny – I never heard anything about Hillary’s ability to support Chelsea while re-doing healthcare or any of the other feminist icons who say you can balance work and family. They also never mention that Barack will have to balance time with his children while meeting with heads of rogue nations. They never mention that Joe Biden’s kids, who don’t have a mom, will be fighting for his time while he hosts white house coffee fundraisers and sells nights in the Lincoln bedroom. Then too, they never mention that Nancy Pelosi has five children but has no problem balancing her time.
5. From the media I have learned that Sarah Palin is “too inexperienced” to be a heartbeat-away from the presidency.
* Apparently taking on corruption in your own party and running a state that has at least as many people as Delaware (hint hint: that’s where Joe Biden is from) is not really experience?
* However, time spent as a “community organizer” and less than 180 days in the senate where you’ve authored NO significant legislation is just the type of “change” we’re looking for from the top of the ticket???
* Funny – Inexperience at the top of the ticket is a mantra for “change” and “hope” while strong practical everyday experience as the #2 is cause for concern???
6. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin’s husband once got a ticket for fishing without a license.
* But, I haven’t heard much about the fact that if he were still a practicing attorney, the VP candidate Joe Biden would be disbarred for plagiarism not once but multiple times!!!
It’s OK to break the rules if you’re a Democrat candidate but not OK if you are the spouse of a republican candidate???
7. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin doesn’t know much about Iraq; in fact we wonder if she even knows where it is.
* Sarah’s son volunteered into the US military and is now deployed in Iraq . I guess that doesn’t count!!!
* Sarah has spent more time with troops in Iraq (as commander of the Alaska National Guard she visited Iraq last year) than Obama has even while running for president!!! In fact, when Sarah went to Iraq she spent time with the troops!!! When Obama went there, he skipped a base visit to instead go work out at the Ritz Carlton!!!
8. From the media I learned that Sarah Palin is a “lightweight” and she better be a “quick study” to keep up with this team.
* Funny, nobody is talking about how, after Barack Obama had “visited all 57 US states” or endless other stupid gaffes that expose who he really is!!! By the way, there are 57 states in the Muslim world!!!
9. From the media I have learned that (gasp!), Sarah Palin’s husband was once a registered member of a 3rd party that favored states’ rights (man, this is really bad stuff).
* That same media has been silent to the story that when Barack Obama announced his first senate run, he did so in the home of William Ayers. Ayers is an un-repentant terrorist convicted for bombing the pentagon!! This same Mr. Ayers said on 9/11 that he and his group did not do enough to harm our military and he wished he had done more!!! During the same time as that comment, he was serving on a board with Barack Obama!!!
All notes and information about their serving together is now locked up by the corrupt Chicago machine and reporter access to those records are being blocked by the Obama campaign!!!
If we’ve had any doubts about the bias of the media, it’s pretty clear now where they stand. Pass this on to your friends and relatives who get all their information from the likes of Katie Couric, Wolf Blitzer, Tom Brokaw and the gang!!! This is egregious and corrupt!!! The only way to stop it is to spread information using other outlets and make these guys irrelevant!!!

Posted by: lightnin | October 25, 2008, 12:32 am 12:32 am

Shame that is the best U can come up with lightnin.. no wonder Obama is taking the country by storm.

Posted by: benji | October 25, 2008, 12:31 pm 12:31 pm

The thing that cracks me up the most about this whole election is the fact that most of the people voting for Mccain are the same ones that voted in W. Bush twice. Shows me just how smart and right they are.

Posted by: kap | October 25, 2008, 4:43 pm 4:43 pm

“Shame that is the best U can come up with lightnin.. no wonder Obama is taking the country by storm.”
The best he can come up with? The guy wrote two pages worth of stuff and it’s dismissed by a high school kid’s wave of the hand? (I can tell by the text-message ‘U’).
Hopefully, you’re not old enough to vote.

Posted by: Grand Old Party | October 26, 2008, 12:52 am 12:52 am

Re. Governor of Alaska PALIN and holder of two Commercial Fishing licences not aware of June 25 2008, ruling by the U S Supreme court, that cut $2,000,000,000 from a settlement in the case of the EXXON VALDEZ. This in answer to Katie Couric’s Question ” can you think of any Supreme Court decisions other than “Rowe vs Wade”!
Yes that is 9 zeros after the 2 !!!

Posted by: Yukio YANO | October 26, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

Does this indicate President Bush and Laura the first lady of all children both repub and dem approve the Robo calls and Palin injecting fear of terroism into our children in these rallies and at home answering the phone and being frightened.
Please lets hear it from The GOP President and first Lady.

Posted by: aw | October 27, 2008, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm

Whatever you said.
John McCain will be
our next US President.
Remember that!

Posted by: Magic Blue Pill | October 28, 2008, 1:43 am 1:43 am

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