If Bush was a great president, why dont Republican candidates want to be seen with him? Can you imagine a GOP candidate giving up an opportunity to be photographed with Reagan? But none of them want Bush anywhere near them, at least where cameras are present.
If Reagan was alive right now, you would probably be bitching about him, too. There was a whole wing of the conservative movement — not huge, but it was there — for whom Ronald Reagan wasn’t pure enough.
“But none of them want Bush anywhere near them, at least where cameras are present.”
And that is the fault of the media, turning him into a devil that he never was.
He was put into a position where everyone in the world believed there were WMD in Iraq. He had to make a decision. He made an incorrect one, but he stood by it. Lesson learned, now let’s stay far away from Arab politics.
I don’t know why he was so hated