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.
Any further leftward movement stops now. From this moment forward, we move the country rightward, or we shut down the government.
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.
I’m afraid thar we got sucked in because of the Texas accent, W acts more like a Connecticutt yankee every day.
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.
I’d like to believe this, but Latimer comes off as very deceptive and having made up everything.
Ironically so now, is Bush.
Couldn’t have more lost America to the GOP, if it were done deliberately...
Sometimes it almost seems like it was.
Um, Bush offered up Harriet Meyers for the Supreme Court and was chastized by the base and talk radio.
I can’t believe they’re still bent on attacking Bush and trying to make him look bad in the eyes of conservatives with this Latimer BS.
After the debunking of the other Latimer’s mega BS on Bush allegedly attacking Sarah Palin, one would think that people didn’t buy this garbage anymore. But, there are always “real conservatives” more willing to keep bashing Bush and securing Democrat victories for centuries to come than there are trying to understand what’s going on here: a democRAT and RINO concerted dezinformatja strategy to divide the conservative front, by exploiting the inevitable backstabbers among former staffers.
WAKE UP PEOPLE! BUSH IS NOT IN OFFICE ANYMORE AND WASTING TIME WITH THIS PREPOSTEROUS BS ONLY HELPS THE OBUMMER AND HIS MINIONS IN SIGHT OF 2010!
Maybe it was just because he was an oil-man, but he held the line on global warming. And Obama’s betrayal of the eastern Europeans shows how well Bush’s foreign and defense policies squared with Reagan-, as opposed to Ron Paul-, conservatism.
When did Gary Bauer ever lead the CONSERVATIVE CAUSE? I’d never heard of him until he was a candidate.
Agree 100 percent !
Conservative movement: George W. Bush is inconsequential.
I voted for the guy twice, as he was the lesser of 2 evils in 2000 and 2004. The conservative movement did score some victories in his eight years (income tax reductions, first confirmation by the Supreme Court that Americans have the right to bear arms, expiration of the “assault gun” ban, pro-life SC justices, ending federal funding of abortion overseas). The Dems themselves know conservative views win, which is why Odumbo is having such a hard time within his own party.
He's a whole lot better than Obozo but then again, so is my Labrador Retriever.
Felt? If Bush even HAD a domestic goal, it was to bankrupt the country. He just didn't know how to do it fast enough. Obama wants to show the world that Bush was a piker.
Why do we get such mediocrities as President?
When I saw the huge spending Bush was behind, I knew he was no conservative.
We had a GOP Congress and White House for 6 years while the spending rivaled the worst Dimocrats years. Disgraceful squandering of a golden opportunity.