AP/Gerald Herbert

First it was Jeb Bush, and now…

"I believe now is the right time for me to help John in his effort to start building the broad base coalition it will take for our conservative values to carry the White House this fall," former President George H. W. Bush said at a press conference in Houston.*

With a ringing endorsement like that, I don’t know how Clinton or Obama will be able to get out of bed tomorrow morning. If I were a Democratic candidate running for President right now, I’d be sharpening the ceremonial blade for my final act of campaign seppuku.

Always the calm and measured speaker, McCain replied:

"I can assure you that Cindy and I will do everything we can to make sure that you are proud and that your support of our candidacy will be something that you can look back on as having been the right thing to do."

(And judging from the photographs, McCain means "everything".)

No, seriously, the cachet synonymous with the name "Bush" is sure to catapult McCain past Obama and Clinton into the White House. How could it not? The Bush family, from Prescott all the way through to Neil, represents truth and honesty in the governance of this country.

McCain is no dummy — he knows that the soaring popularity of the current President, his Aragorn-like conquest of the evildoers in Iraq, and his thrifty fiscal policies that have brought unimaginable wealth to all Americans, along with the übersuccess of the previous Bush Administration’s ingenious economic strategies, will serve to crush, CRUSH I tell you, the Democrats come November. It’s a no brainer, people!

The current president has expressed an implicit support for McCain’s candidacy, but has yet to embrace McCain as the party’s nominee because the Republican race has not been officially settled, with former Gov. Mike Huckabee refusing to back out until a candidate gets to the 1,191 delegates needed to win the Republican nomination.

The BFFs share an evening of karaoke.

Don’t be fooled by the fronting. It’s really only a matter of days after Bush gets back from his triumphant, groundbreaking trip to Africa that he puts his imprimatur on McCain’s campaign, thus assuring McCain of a landslide win over the Democrats and a guarantee to each of us that the country’s robust economic and foreign policy health continues well into the next decade.

But McCain will have to wait for now until George W. Bush to jumps out of the big party cake. He can satisfy himself for the moment with the second best endorsement a Republican boy could hope for.

So Barack, Hillary? Looks like it’s time to give up the crying and the plagiarizing and go back to your day jobs full time. The "Straight Talk Express" has topped of the tank with Bush gas and is steaming through to November!

*From here.