Posted on 09/18/2009 12:51:21 AM PDT by neverdem
Except for his wartime hawkiness which passed all too soon, it looks like Dubya was a thoroughgoing squish.
I knew Bush was a fraud when he coined “Compassionate Conservative” (as if to say Conservatism isn’t compassionate — it is FAR MORE compassionate than liberalism, I bet Reagan would have some words for GWB), but he’s still a much better man and president than the current occupant of the White House.
But no more Bushes in the WH. EVER.
F- U RINO BUSH.
Bush saw himself as a post-partisan leader. It worked for him in Texas, where the GOP was surging in the 1990’s. But the non-partisan nonsense didn’t work in DC, since the Dems never bought into it. They continued to be ever more hyper-partisan and it worked for them.
It's not exactly that hard to be "better" than a scum-sucking, Alinsky-loving, America-hating Marxist.
More like spoiled the GOP.
Any further leftward movement stops now. From this moment forward, we move the country rightward, or we shut down the government.
Between Bush and McInsane, I'm hard pressed to make a determination as to which one contributed more to destroying the GOP.
I don’t recall McCain making any audacious boasts like this.
The revealing moment, described in "Speechless: Tales of a White House Survivor," occurred in the Oval Office in early 2008.
Look at the responses! The only people who hate you worse than your adversaries are your "allies," it would seem.
He was close enough to know what it was like when Dubya let his hair down. Until I see Dubya deny it, I take it at face value.
I’m afraid thar we got sucked in because of the Texas accent, W acts more like a Connecticutt yankee every day.
Bush. He caused more life-long Republicans to leave the GOP. I know, I am one.
I wouldn't recommend holding your breath. He's probably developed an immunity to knives in the back by now.
Sounds like he has earned this knife. What was it that drove him so mushy in his lame duck term?
Born in Maine, a Maine-iac.
I take this report with a grain of salt. Consider the source(s).
That said, W never promised to be a movement conservative. In that sense he was consistent. His record as governor of Texas was not totally Reaganesque, nor did he pretend he was.
I supported and continue to support W for the many great things he came through on. He did not do everything I wanted. He did some things I wish he hadn’t. But man, am I glad he was President and not Gore or Kerry.
I felt the same way about McCain. Where he was solid, he was solid as a rock. I didn’t like some of his positions. But he didn’t pretend to be something he wasn’t. And man, do I wish he was President instead of Obama right now.
Maybe it was because he was lame duck.
“But no more Bushes in the WH EVER.”
In the words of Jesse Jackson, “America, stay outta the Bushes!”
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