Bush is a good man. He might not have been the best president, but he loves his country and our military.
All of that is also true of my next door neighbor. But he has no business being president, he’s neither bright enough or conservative enough. Ditto for W.
Dubya spending as a percent of GDP averaged across 8 years was 19.3%. President Reagan’s was 21.5%. Unemployment under Bush , 5.3%. Under Clinton with a repub congress and a dot com explosion, 5.2%. Only W never raised taxes. Deficit spending averaged 3% for the past 50 years. 2% under W.Now these are facts not opinions.
Yes he signed the drug entitlement so he owns that but his proposal to Congress was revenue neutral so the big spenders in Congress own more of that than Bush.
He held firm against the left, the MSM and the cowardly members of his own party to surge troops into Iraq when it was do or cut and run. This was a display of leadership which President Reagan did not display in Lebanon and I am a big fan of RR.
Bush had his faults, primarily being reticent to engage in street fighting, but I would have been proud to do my Army time while he was CIC rather than the assholes I served under.