President Bush the billion dollar man

George W. Bush (pictured) is as low in popularity polls as Jimmy Carter was in the late 1970’s but that doesn’t hinder him from raising record amounts of cash for Republicans.

In all, Bush has personally raised more than $968 million for the Republican Party, GOP candidates and his own re-election campaign and inauguration during his two terms in office. And he's not finished.

He's now lost a big part of the national spotlight to presidential contenders John McCain and Barack Obama, but he remains a formidable force on the fundraising circuit.

Bush spent 90 minutes recently at a California winery tucked in a hillside in Napa Valley to help wring $850,000 from deep-pocket donors. That's $9,444 a minute.

The billion-dollar man keeps rakin’ it in.

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