President Bush casts his ballot by mail, for...

It's election day at the White House.

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino sent out this e-mail a few minutes ago:

Today the President and Mrs. Bush cast their ballots for the 2008 election during the early voting process. The ballots will be mailed back to Texas today.

So, there will be no trips to the fire station polling place in Crawford, where the president voted in 2006.

Perino said the Bushes planned to spend election night at the White House.

Oh, by the way, for whom did they vote?

Do we really have to answer that? Apparently, we do.

Consider: The president has barely seen John McCain this year. He didn't make it to the Republican National Convention. He's spending the final days of the election campaign at the White House, and not at get-out-the-vote rallies for the John McCain-Sarah Palin ticket.

Gimme a break.

For those who want everything nailed down--or perhaps for those just harking back to the endorsements of Barack Obama by former Bush administration biggies Colin L. Powell and Scott McClellan--Perino dispatched a subsequent message 19 minutes later.

Under the subject line "I find this hard to believe..." she wrote:

But so many reporters have asked just who the president voted for, I guess I have to make it clear--for months the president has said he supports John McCain for president and of course he voted for him.

-- James Gerstenzang

Photo: Rod Aydelotte-Pool / Getty Images

Comments

[JD]

Okay but that email didn't address the question of whom the First Lady voted for

[Walter]

So he gets to be wrong one last time!

[Claudia]

Scott McClellan? A "biggie"?! He's a small worm of a man who got his job through cronyism, bit the hand that fed him...and will still try to live off of it for the rest of his small, petty, life. Serves Bush right for putting such a 'no talent' guy into a position like that.

[Kevin]

Darn, he could have been the latest person in his administration to endorse Obama. And oddly enough, that would have possibly hurt Obama.

[Mikey, Alpena, Mi]

Since everything Bush has said while in office has turned out to be the opposite.....

[dvdvon]

JD...don't be an idiot. No actual Republican could ever support a leftwing Democrat. Yes...that rules out Powell, who in 3 administrations has proven his only real political loyalty is to Powell. Laura Bush is a Republican. She voted for McCain.

[Spaniel]

According to ACORN, he voted for Mickey Mouse but I think that's a vicious lie. I'm certain he voted for Gordon Brown.

[bing]

birds of a feather flock to gether. no surprise. idot for idiot.

[styx]

dvdvon - it's polarized people like you who are damaging our system. Party loyalty is ridiculous. It's not a problem if you tend to vote in a direction, but saying that "No Actual Republican could EVER support a leftwing Democrat" is both incorrect and ignorant.

[Narwal]

Of course he voted for McCain. He's an egomaniac. He wants to see his failed policies continue on.

He's like Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove. Riding the bomb all the way to the ground and shouting YEE-HAW as he takes the rest of the world with him.

[MooP]

dvdvon, I seem to recall Laura as being a Democrat at one point. Seems like that would put her in the middle at this point. I don't know that you can really say how she voted with real confidence. What ever happens behind closed doors...

[tawanda]

"No actual Republican could ever support a leftwing Democrat."

So.. You're saying they're all parrots incapable of free thought?

Odd. That's just what I've always suspected.

[F deFrancesco]

Just goes to show that more and more of McCain supporters are a "fringe" element.

[chris]

I bet hes stayin in on election day to avoid the millions of people who will flock to the election centers to vote to get people like him and anything to do with him out of office.

[mura]

was there a special election for the President where he was able to vote in 2006???

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[HedgeBaby]

Well, actually, it's none of our business whom George and Laura Bush voted for, any more than it's their business whom we vote for. The important thing is that they voted, and the nation knows it. The real threat in this election is that people will assume their candidate either does or does not have it wrapped up, and they will not actually go out and vote, and the will of the people will not be truly done. So even though I AM NOT a fan of George W (Laura's ok) - hurrah that they voted!

[Vleeptron Dude]

i am so enjoying the blossoming and flowering of George W Bush's legacy ... beginning with a last year of his presidency spent in deep, dark hiding -- at the request of all other Republicans, who don't want to be seen within 50 miles of him.

In Texas and in the White House, he parlayed an ingenuous barbecue smile and a handshake to election victory. He certainly had no achievements, in business or in public life, to justify his candidacies. He has two diplomas -- but no education. An illiterate who groans and shrinks from reading books.

A president and, for the rest of his life, an ex-president who hides from the American people. He's not embarrassed or ashamed -- he's just always had contempt for the American people, and scorn for the idea that he was supposed to serve them well and honestly.

[getitright]

tawanda--simply put, no person who truly had conservative values (both morally and fiscally) and longed for the Republican party of smaller government would side with a leftwing Democrat simply because they have different beliefs, not because they are parrots.

mura--in 2006 he voted in an election for local offices, senators, governors, represantatives. There are elections every year, not just every four years.

[Clayton]

mura,

it's called elections for Congress.

[Kricnit]

Mura, Elections are held in the U.S every two years.

[When Elephants Fly]

Hopefully voting for McCain is among the last errors of judgment we'll have to endure from George W. Bush. These past eight years have felt like an eternity, and the untold damage he has caused will likely continue to plague us for some time to come.

Comments welcome: http://whenelephantsfly.blogspot.com

[Ron Sampson]

You mean W knows how to read? Wonder if there were any hanging chads?
One of the first things the dems must do is to fire Diebold- the heavily conservative, highly suspicious voting machine manufacturer- our democracy depends on accurate elections, not the third world stuff the Republicans have turned every major vote into.

[sevan claig]

Good thing we know. Another exciting, important piece of news reporting by the LA Times.
How about publishing what you found out from your selected candidate about his lawyer expenditures to fight the lawsuit simply asking he provide proof of his citizenship to a federal court.
Forgive me for asking and intruding upon your campaign strategy, but I find it curious a fellow with the funds he (and the DNC) has avoids saving the time and substantial legal costs by simply providing his birth certificate and/or passport, instead choosing to argue that a "voter" does not have the constitutional authority to ask him such a question, just as a "taxpayer" cannot sue the government.
Hmmmm....
And then he heads off to Hawaii to see his sick Grandma - without her grandkids? Maybe he's gone to search the boxes in Grandma's attic for his college thesis where he mentioned he was a _____________ ? citizen.

Oh well, that's not as important as the President voting for his own party. Maybe those whackos over at the National Enquirer will do some journalism and look into a story with somme meat on it.

[Melissa]

McCain Rocks! Go McCain! I real American hero...not some guy who speaks well when he is standing up and hangs with terrorists...McCain doesn't hate white people either, which is a huge plus!

[Me]

I guess pro-McCain comments don't get approved...