Thanks for posting something positive.
One of my deepest complaints about Free Republic is that it is so cynical about historical conservatism.
Bush Sr. was great in his time.
For those who are around 5 years after Trump is done, there will be people on Free Republic ripping him to shreds for not being whoever the 2029 standard of conservatism is.
That really should not matter. Our side would do well to develop some unity and applaud the things we DO like with regard to the historically conservative things Presidents do.
The appointment of Thomas and sticking with him is probably one of the most important things to happen to the Supreme Court for conservatives — next to Scalia.
Bush broke the Vietnam syndrome that was one of the most important dogmas of the Left that demonized and demoralized our armed forces. Bush won a major war for the first time since Vietnam. That was a huge shift in our hard power to the positive.
Thank you Sir. Those are some very good points, especially the end of the Vietnam syndrome, indeed. Kids at the time will remember a sense of decency that hasn’t been seen on the public stage.
He didn’t recognize the nature of the hedonists brutes on the other side. But that was a reflection of his very different character.
He wasn’t the warrior against the left that we need now. But his accomplishments were incredible and his personality and example are also needed today.
That's because Bush was NOT conservative, he was a N.E. moderate in Texan camouflage.
His criticism of Regan's tax cuts as "vodoo economics" was not just primary campaign bluster, Bush meant it.
That's why he soon violated his "read my lips, no new taxes" pledge.
The only thing Poppy was "great" in was belatedly using the veto pen AFTER breaking his No New Taxes pledge.
The appointment of Thomas and sticking with him
Thomas did his own work and shamed the Senate. Bush had very little to do with his confirmation. Did he make any public statements defending him?
Bush I was a globalist who destroyed the Reagan Revolution. Quite possibly the 3rd or 4th worst President of the 20th Century, after Carter, Wilson, and LBJ.
He also nominated and got confirmed the very liberal David Souter.
You say that because you know very little about the real Bush family. The truth is we know so very little about the incestious families that we chose to rule over us. Look into the life of Prescott Bush and tell me how great he was.
“Great in his time”......What in the hell is wrong with you? Good God, pay attention! The New World Order Bush folks are pure scum! To think that there are FReepers who think these Globalist pukes are okay is really something! Grow up sonny! Get a clue!
In her exaggerated Texas drawl, she enumerated the list of the worst verbal gaffes GHWB had made in his life, and accused him of being a spoiled rich kid of a US Senator. The "big zinger" in the Hatchet Speech combined these two themes:
"Pooowor Geooorge! He jus' cain't he'p hisself! He was bawrn with a silver fooowot in his maowwwwth!"
For years after, Dan Rather would play that clip on CBS "news" shows ad nauseum, and never failed to fall off his chair and roll on the floor with tears of laughter streaming down his cheeks, just to hear again for the 1000th time what surely must be the funniest line ever written in all creation, or at least according to Rather.
And the frequency of its being played was ramped up in 1994, when Bush's son, derisively referred to as "Shrub" by the Texas Dem/Media establishment - including Richards & Rather, was running what looked to be an impossible campaign to unseat Gov Ann Richards. Whenever the economy is doing great - as it was in Texas that year, it's a safe bet that a scandal-less incumbent Governor will ALWAYS cruise to an easy re-election.
But the conventional wisdom disappeared that year. Dubya beat her by a huge margin. And the next day, as reported by Rush, the joke going around Texas was ---
"Pooowor Ann! She jus' cain't he'p herself! She woke up this mawrnin' with a silver boooot in her butt!"
I've always loved stories of come-uppance like that!
> Bush Sr. was great in his time.
Bush Sr. was terrible in his time, which is how he managed to lose after 1 term, a term which he got only from riding Reagan’s coattails and not by any merit of his own.
Bush Sr. hijacked the era of peace we earned after defeating the USSR and turned it into an era of perpetual war.
In the big picture, he stands out prominently in the pantheon of humanity’s evil-doers.
IMO Bush Senior was globalist Free Traitor™, I feel no sense off loss AT ALL.
GW Bush was an american hero on many levels and he deserve his due.
GW Bush was an american hero on many levels and he deserve his due.
“Bush won a major war for the first time since Vietnam. “
He did? As I understand it he left the field of battle when he could have won it, and it took his son GW to finally win that war 12 years later, after a re-invasion and 12 more years of the Mullahs in Tehran burrowing deeper into the Shia of Iraq.
I’ll give him Clarence Thomas but not much else.
What major war was that? The Gulf War?
Are you aware what that was all about?
The reason Iraq invaded Kuwait was because Kuwait had been slant drilling into Iraq’s oil fields and stealing their oil.
Irag determined that Kuwait owed them about $11 Billion dollars and they would not pay so Iraq invades.
That set Bush off because Saddam had thoughts of moving southward and invading Saudi Arabia. Now in light of what we know would that have been a bad thing?
The whole Gulf war set in motion all the turmoil we now have in the ME. It was a war we should not have fought. It was a joke.