Et tu, Turd Blossom? Former George W. Bush strategist Karl Rove says he's not ready to endorse Jeb Bush — or any other 2016 hopeful — for president yet.
"I’m not planning to endorse anybody," Rove told Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer in an interview on the Today show.
"I'm watching. I want to win, and I have a long friendship with the family and a long friendship with Jeb, but I'm like a lot of people sitting on the sidelines watching and waiting," Rove said on the show. "I want everybody to get in as a candidate and start showing us what they've got — how they show up on the campaign trail and how they show up in the debates, but we're 9 months away from making my own decision."
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