Posted on 05/10/2016 9:30:10 AM PDT by quesney
hink of other chronic medical diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, or cancer. The mind or body slowly fail, not typically in a linear fashion, but always in a long term unrelenting downward trajectory. There are improvements along the way, providing hope to those afflicted and their loved ones, but the hope is short lived, and the disease, despite a short pause, picks up where it left off.
The first sign of illness post Reagan was George HW Bush, in his acceptance speech at the RNC convention, calling for “a kinder and gentler nation.” Kinder and gentler than what? Obviously a repudiation of Reagan’s brand of conservatism, which candidate Bush once called “voodoo economics.” Perhaps HW looked back on eight years of Reagan and said to himself, “Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn’t take one more step.”
Next was George HW Bush’s famous pledge, “Read my lips. No new taxes.” Right out of the Republican Party playbook. Music to conservative ears. Cancer in remission. Until he turned his back on his pledge and raised taxes. Kicking the Republican Party in the teeth.
This paved the way for eight years of Bill and Hillary Clinton. “While the king was looking down, the jester stole his thorny crown.” King George HW Bush looked down with contempt at the Republican base and Bubba the jester not only stole the crown, but used Bush’s “no new taxes” words against him in the 1992 presidential campaign.
No conservative was George W Bush. Foolhardy and misguided military follies in the Middle East. Expansion of the federal education bureaucracy with Ted Kennedy via No Child Left Behind. Medicare Part D expansion increasing government control of healthcare. Promotion of open borders via amnesty. And a massive increase in government spending.
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“No conservative was George W Bush. Foolhardy and misguided military follies in the Middle East. Expansion of the federal education bureaucracy with Ted Kennedy via No Child Left Behind. Medicare Part D expansion increasing government control of healthcare. Promotion of open borders via amnesty. And a massive increase in government spending.”
Scum
IMHO it died in 1996 when they had a vulnerable, corrupt, scandal-plagued POTUS ripe for the picking, and yet they nominated an ambulatory corpse because “it was his turn”.
Yep. The Bush family was bad for republicans and the USA.
Trump is the perfect Republican candidate, the elites are only worried about him because he disrupts their relationship with the donor class. But if you look at Trump issue by issue, he is not far a field from what the party claims to stand for.
“Yep. The Bush family was bad for republicans and the USA.”
You liked Al Gore?
They didn’t die, they merged with the dems to become the uniparty.
The only real difference between the two parties was who gets first dibs on looting the wealth of the people.
We have had nothing but NWO globalists since Reagan.
HW kicked republican VOTERS in the teeth.
The party doesn't want to be responsible to its voters. They want the voters' loyalty in spite of the party's behavior.
The GOP if it embraces the opportunity provided by Trump to become the true party of the working class it will be resurrected even stronger than before. As long as we have two parties ruled by elitists disconnected from the realities of most citizens parasitizing the US economy America is doomed. Trump provides the first opportunity in a long time to reset the baseline and allow America and Americans to rise again.
From the ashes will arise something new and better.
Or should we keep the Whigs around for a few more decades?
Didn’t think so.
“The only real difference between the two parties was who gets first dibs on looting the wealth of the people.”
Ding, ding, ding...we have a winner!
“This paved the way for eight years of Bill and Hillary Clinton. “While the king was looking down, the jester stole his thorny crown.” King George HW Bush looked down with contempt at the Republican base and Bubba the jester not only stole the crown, but used Bush’s “no new taxes” words against him in the 1992 presidential campaign.
As someone posted recently, “The Booshes” regard everyone else as “The Help!” Trump needs to make absolutely certain that he does not take on a VP who will undercut his policies either while in office or afterwards, as that unmittigated POS GHWB and his worthless turd son have done. Between their own globalist policies and their leading the voters to the Clintons and Obola, they have sold out their country. They probably are more concerned today with the Saudi Monarchy than the leadership of our country (other than putting their idiot last born into the Oval Office to try and finish us all off)! I kick myself daily that I voted for any of this Boosh $hit!
It died under Nixon.
Both parties have merged to a uniparty, an incumbent party designed for re-election with nothing to do with actual constituent service.
Trump will change this.
How so? Please explain.
Right! And the loser gets the sloppy seconds.
I agree that it was Bush 1 that started the downward slide. Instead of finishing off the Democrat party, they follow up the most successful conservative ever with some milquetoast, wobbly-need “moderate” that got railroaded by the dems.
False choice. Bush was a disaster. That doesn’t mean someone preferred Gore. That’s the whole point of this article. We get choices between a full leftist like Gore, and someone 75% leftist like Bush who comes in new “traditional America” flavor.
I thought it was a “phony” crown.
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