Health issues to keep George H.W. Bush, Barbara from RNC

[Tony_FLADEM]

HOUSTON --
A spokesman says former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, will skip the Republican National Convention.

The spokesman, Jim McGrath, says it will be the first time since 1976, when Bush was director of the CIA and refrained from partisan activities, that he won't attend the Republican Party gathering.

The 88-year-old Bush has a form of Parkinson's disease that afflicts his legs. He now gets around using a wheelchair or motorized scooter.

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[dballance]

1. Can't stand him but sorry he's in poor health nt

[DemocracyInaction]

2. how much will it cost the party...

...to drag old Nancy out of mothballs? Actually, they want no reminders of Bush there or halfwit Palin, etc. Any more purges and they will have an empty hall. Hell, why don't they just hold it in Adelson's living room and be done with it!

[HopeHoops]

3. Yeah, the whole damn thing gives them both headaches.

[cyberswede]

4. LOL - I was gonna say that Romney makes them sick.