The Bush family just finished the job it started decades ago. Neil Bush, son of one president and brother of another, voted for James Talarico and then bragged about it on Facebook. His niece Barbara Bush already wrote a check to the super PAC bankrolling the same radical Democrat.
This is not a one-off tantrum. It is the dynasty’s last gasp of relevance, spent trying to drag Texas into the UniParty swamp they spent a generation defending.
According to Fox News, Neil posted that he had never put a political message on Facebook before but broke that habit because he voted early for Talarico. He cited “deep concern about Ken Paxton’s record” and “genuine admiration for the character and principles” he sees in the Democrat. He also took a shot at President Trump, claiming Trump and those who “enabled him” have “done enormous damage to the Republican Party.”
Barbara’s $2,500 contribution to Lone Star Rising PAC, the main outside vehicle for Talarico, was reported earlier in the same cycle by multiple outlets including Breitbart.
“My vote was motivated by two things: deep concern about Ken Paxton’s record and genuine admiration for the character and principles I see in James Talarico.” — Neil Bush
That is the polished version. The actual record is uglier. Talarico once told Sierra Club activists that capitalism, white supremacy, and climate change are interlocking “oppressive systems” that must be dismantled together. He compared Texas oil and gas leadership to being “the leader in cassette tapes.” He has described God as nonbinary, claimed there are six biological sexes, called himself a “Christian who hates Christianity,” and argued that Christianity and Islam are equal pathways to the same truth. On abortion he pointed to Mary’s “consent” before the Incarnation as biblical cover.
These are not fringe college comments. They are the public theology and politics of the man Neil Bush just endorsed.
The Dynasty That Always Chose the Swamp
None of this should surprise anyone who watched the Bushes operate. George H.W. Bush raised taxes after promising he would not. George W. Bush pushed amnesty, expanded federal power after 9/11, and left the country with two unfinished wars while the administrative state grew.
Both men treated the Republican Party as a vehicle for managed decline and elite consensus rather than a defense of the constitutional order. Their post-presidency years have been spent collecting applause from the same media and donor class that spent years attacking conservatives.
Neil himself carries his own baggage. As a director of Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan he faced regulatory findings of conflicts of interest involving loans to business associates. The thrift collapsed at a cost of roughly a billion dollars to taxpayers. He received a formal reprimand and a cease-and-desist order from the Office of Thrift Supervision. That is the man lecturing Texas about “character” and “accountability.”
Ken Paxton already buried one Bush. In the 2022 attorney general primary runoff he crushed George P. Bush, the last family member still holding statewide office, by roughly two-to-one. Paxton won the Republican nomination for Senate this year by beating John Cornyn in a runoff after Trump endorsed him. The family response has been predictable: sit out or actively undermine the candidate who represents the voters who rejected them.
What the Bushes Are Actually Protecting
Lone Star Rising is not a grassroots operation. It has taken millions from Reid Hoffman and other Democratic megadonors while running ads that try to rebrand Talarico as a moderate. The race is tight. Multiple polls show Talarico with a narrow edge or a statistical tie. MAGA Inc. has already put $10 million behind Paxton. Outside groups on both sides have spent hundreds of millions. If Paxton holds the seat, it will be the clearest statement yet that Texas Republicans no longer need the Bush brand.
The family is not crossing over because Paxton is imperfect. They are crossing over because Paxton fights the administrative state, challenges election practices they preferred to leave unexamined, and refuses to treat the Democratic Party as a legitimate partner in managed decline. That is the opposite of the neoconservative project that defined the Bush years: endless wars abroad, open borders at home, and a polite consensus that kept the donor class comfortable.
But most importantly to the Bushes is that if Paxton loses, it would vindicate the RINOs and NeoCons who backed their brother in swampy arms, Cornyn. It will be used as an example of why the GOP should listen to the Old Guard of the UniParty instead of President Trump or MAGA.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
When Paxton wins, the Bush dynasty does not merely lose another race. It gets written into the history books as the family that spent decades advancing the UniParty and then openly backed a radical Democrat to stop the voters who finally rejected them. That is not principle. It is the last act of a spent political brand.
Texas has already moved on. The rest of the country is watching to see whether anyone else still pretends the old names matter.
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