Posted on 11/28/2017 8:50:24 AM PST by mairdie
Not “all” of us were excited about the Bushes. Personally I hated the picture thread, and was glad to see it disappear.please stick to dogs,now that I can whole heartedly get behind,WOOF.
> We? Who is we? <
Well, me for one. Back in 2000 I actually bought W’s “compassionate conservatism” nonsense. Looking back, perhaps W believed it himself. Then again, it might have been just more Deep State nonsense to fool us Deporables.
Jeb would have been unmitigated disaster, but NOTHING would have been as bad as Hillary.
But, to me, he was infinitely better than AlGore and I shudder to think of Gore leading this country, as I do when I think how close we got to Hillary. I wish he had been better. I’m grateful he stood in place of Gore.
It’s like the Uniparty give us the choice of being slow roasted or boiled alive and we’re grateful to be slow roasted.
No, not conned. Disappointed. But still better than Gore and Kerry. I live in MA. NOTHING would make me vote for Kerry.
Excellent comparison, but I’ll stick with slow roasted while there’s a chance someone like Trump will jump in to save us.
His failure to stand up for himself and challenge those who conflated “lying” with “operating on the best intelligence available at the time” was extremely disappointing. And why I now applaud and support Trump with so much vigor. What good is a leader who acts like a doormat?
W surrounded himself with rats like Colin Powell who didn’t help him a bit, but his own weakness was the core problem. He could have spoken up, but did not.
As one who was stuck out of town for a week after 9/11, my recollections of GWB will always reflect the leadership he demonstrated at that critical time. Our deepest memories are based on events, and the emotions we felt at those times.
Your boy was a fraud. You got connned and hoodwinked. Deal with it.
>>I actually bought W’s “compassionate conservatism” nonsense.
His “ownership society” wasn’t a bad idea - except there was that one time, at band camp, when Dubya’s Ambassador to the Netherlands (and the Godfather of Subprime) tried to shove a tuba whatever up the global economic infrastructure’s wherever...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFMZxkA9lsQ&list=PL6qkWbxcri_c7gScQ5DKkd54zoLBfxLHf
Play Ball!
https://www.google.com/#q=Rangers+Ameriquest+Field&oq=Rangers+Ameriquest+Field
Got FRAUD?
Both Bushes were bad news - the first clue was the older one was a CIA boy - and gave them too much power. He un-did the restrictions of regulations that Reagan provided - was a world socialist enabler - entangled us in the Middle east at $1T/year - still on going.
They are ‘cartel socialists’ - Socialism lite is still socialism and it hurts people.
Or maybe you eere just young and naive :). I was 6 tears old when Bush was elected and was only vaguely aware that "the good guy" had won, and as an added bonus he appeared to be a cowboy.
You were only disappointed in Boosh? Really?
Here’s a recording of that AH demanding loans for totally unqualified minorities, just a few years prior to the epic housing collapse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkAtUq0OJ68
>>his own weakness was the core problem
Absolutely right on the button. I would have called him a weak placeholder if he hadn’t come out attacking Trump. I lost all sympathy for him then, but my feelings now don’t stop my memory of believing in him for that time after 9/11. It’s sort of like still remembering the good times with an ex after the divorce.
Once Bush opened his mouth to criticize Trump, after 8 years of Obama selective mutism, I lost all respect for him.
The days of walking around with a "kick me" sign on our backs is over!
YES!! He also didn’t respect the massive support Trump got. That was thumbing his nose at us.
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