Is there a new member of the Bush family?

Reuters ^ | 01/29/06

[rcrngroup]

George Bush sees partisan politics as petty and ultimately meaningless. We see partisanship as the indispensable stuff of freedom. At election time the Bushes will hold their nose and dip into partisanship. But it is not in their essential nature to wage war for tactical political advantage.

.....But they are not conservative.

Great post and very insightful as well! I think you hit the nail on the head, and it is for this very reason that GW Bush time & time again, especially on domestic or social policies, makes decisions or acts in ways that just cause genuine conservatives to have conniptions. But then again, that is because GW Bush is NOT really a conservative at all and never has been one. He throws an occasional bone to conservatives and that is about it. In fact I think that GW Bush & certainly his kooky wife Laura would be proud & "honored" to be followed by Hitlery Clinton as president.

[sausageseller]

How are you doing EV?

Gibtown coming in a couple of weeks.

Do you miss it?

[beckysueb]

The only up side to this is that it drives the DUmmies in DUmmyland to the brink of suicide.

[MillerCreek]

Well, for a moment there, me, too! Ha.

[EternalVigilance]

Great!

Nah. Politics is all the excitement I need these days... :-)

[DumpsterDiver]

Who is playing who, though?

I think they're both playing all of us and not each other.

(I am cynical.)

[beckysueb]

The old man said, You may not believe this, Katie, but I really do like Bill Clinton.

We had a conservative speaker at our local Republican Party meeting last year who had met Bill Clinton and he said the same thing. He said Clinton was a very likeable person but that didn't mean you should trust him. He also said that in a group, Clinton would seek out the people he knew didn't like him and pay special attention to them like he just had to have everybodys approval.

[Graymatter]

Meanwhile brother Billy's wife said recently that the Bush administration "will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country."

While Bill Clinton certainly merits lifetime honorary membership in the US Presidential Brothers Club, it is sad that former President Bush considers him decent company, and that the current President Bush thinks it amusing.
Lie down with dawgs...

[beckysueb]

This is probably the first time in Bill Clinton's life when he has gotten to be around a sane family and a solid marriage. I don't blame him for wanting more of that, do you?

I agree. I have at times even understood him a little. You know it has to be the hardest thing in the world being married to the Hildabeast. No wonder he cheats.

[Howlin]

OMG! I was too late in my prediction!

OMG! You're too stupid for words.

[MillerCreek]

I do believe that it's been hinted at that Laura Bush is a Democrat. Or was, when she was still declaring independently from the President (might still be, though I am pretty sure she's voted for George otherwise).

There was an interview with her in Bush's first term when she was asked (cannot now recall who the interviewer was) as to her voter registration -- same interview when she was asked about her opinion as to abortion, directly, whether she "supported a woman's right to chose," and if she "thought Roe v. Wade should be overturned," and Laura Bush said, after some avoidance, "no, I don't believe Roe v. Wade should be overturned." Somewhere in that same interview she either didn't deny being registered as a Democrat or she alluded to the fact that she might be.

But she didn't affirmatively agree that she was "a Republican."

Given that a lot of people in Texas of their ages were -- some still are -- originally Democrats (some in my family -- very conservative Christians with longstanding in the state -- were participants in the Texas state Demo Party and state government years ago) but opted like Reagan to register later as Republicans.

I wouldn't be surprised if but what Laura Bush was similar to those.

I like her, one way or the other. But, as a conservative person, I find it impossible today for anyone with conservative opinions and values and beliefs to even consider affiliating with the DNC, given their ongoing party platform, and that's even aside from their behaviors as a movement.

[Itzlzha]

OMG! You're too stupid for words.

Occam's Razor...Occam's razor is a logical principle attributed to the mediaeval philosopher William of Occam (or Ockham). The principle states that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed.

"Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton," he said, referring to how Bill Clinton had followed his father, and Hillary Clinton could follow him.

In your view, it's some elaborate Bush Strategerey...

In reality...

Oh, and the next time you call me stupid....do it to my face. Have the courage of your convictions. Now I see how you acquired your screen name....

It's frothing "Cult of Bush" types like yourself that make Free Republic a laughing stock. See, Free Republic is about Conservatism, not "Cult of Personality".

And the trading of Centralized power between two families is NOT what America was EVER about!

[beckysueb]

It's frothing "Cult of Bush" types like yourself that make Free Republic a laughing stock.

I didn't realize FR was a "laughingstock". What makes you think that?

[isom35]

it would be a nice gesture to invite Vince Foster over for dinner...oh wait he's dead.

[River_Wrangler]

Us Texans have a very dry humor. We are most often misunderestimated.;-)

[Itzlzha]

When poeple like certain Bush apologists post here, it takes away from Conservative argumnets and ideas, and reduces it to a cheerleading squad for one man, versus the principles this country was founded on.

Cross the line and attack their Demi-G_d, and they act like this...

Rather than address the questions or issues.

This issue is that GWB has come out and said whjat a LOT of people have suspected....that power in Washington is being consolidated between two families...and that is not what America is about!

[Reily]

Bill Clinton is a con man ! Period!
The Elder Bush is a extremely decent 'gentleman of the old school', this means he is a 'mark' He has been snookered before by Democrats (Remember his 'good friend George Mitchel' !) and is being snookered again. Bill may think that by hanging around with the 'decent' some of it will wear off and upgrade his legacy !

[Itzlzha]

Sorry for the typos...I need to check myself better.

[MillerCreek]

Yeah, from much that I've read about the likable public Bill Clinton, he's one ex-President that former CIA Director GBush would want to keep closer than others. Much that I've read about Bill Clinton is that he's "officially" charming, endearing, likable, all the things that make for charismatic personalities but in his case, I do believe that personna is both publicly polished and not at all an accurate depiction of his character. He's a charming guy!

So are many serial rapists, just saying.

It does not (at all) surprise me that he'd be talented in public with fundraising and especially in other -- and less sophisticated -- countries, particularly, where male charisma is much of what "rulers" are about.

I'm also thinking over the huge number of characters that the Bush family has met and entertained over their intense lifetimes and I'd think that they are all quite talented at keeping their own amidst whatever and whomever. Perhaps it's also a bit of service involved as to them keeping Bill Clinton closer than usual. Service in the Christian sense.

[Howlin]

Oh, and the next time you call me stupid.....do it to my face

If I ever see you, I sure will.

Have the courage of your convictions.

We've all seen your "convictions." I'd be real surprised if the Secret Service hasn't seen them, too.