‘SNL’ Bush Endorses McCain
While the McCain campaign is doing everything it can to distance itself from the presidency of George W. Bush, "SNL" still managed to imagine how an endorsement from the commander in chief would go, and how gosh-darn down-home a Bush/Palin administration might really have been.While the McCain campaign is doing everything it can to distance itself from the presidency of George W. Bush, “SNL” still managed to imagine how an endorsement from the commander in chief would go, and how gosh-darn down-home a Bush/Palin administration might really have been.
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