[lentulusgracchus]

I didn’t like HW one bit. He sold out his conservative values to “play nice” ....

I share your disdain, and Ross Perot's ("There are lions in the jungle, and there are tigers in the jungle. You're a rabbit."), but George H.W. Bush isn't conservative. He's a Yankee snob who caters for other Yankee snobs. Period.

[lentulusgracchus]

Same, btw, as his daddy Pressy had done, the ascended shoe salesman who figured out life would be more rewarding as a Yalie brown-noser. And parlayed that willingness to mingle and serve into a seat in the U.S. Senate .... from Connecticut. Not Ohio.