Posted on 05/10/2016 9:30:10 AM PDT by quesney
Just read the history of the time - it is self explanatory - really, honest.
Dead as a door nail...
False choice?
No. It was Gore vs Bush.
Reality. It’s real.
It goes back way further than that when Lincoln failed to keep us out of a war between American brothers, and called it a civil war.. The expanse of federal power increased a 1000 fold during his rain of domestic death for thousands of young boys.
Bushism, the New World Order, “Compassionate Conservatism”, “keep shopping to support the war”, open borders, “free trade”, and globalism all need to be deep-sixed.
“Yep. The Bush family was bad for republicans and the USA.”
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You liked Al Gore?
Wasn’t a big fan of either choice. But I certainly picked Bush over Gore. Republicans have done a poor job nominating their candidates.
And we would be much better off today if Pat Buchanan had been nominated instead of GHW Bush.
Bushism, the New World Order, “Compassionate Conservatism”, “keep shopping to support the war”, open borders, “free trade”, and globalism all need to be deep-sixed.
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Yep. And most of their Pro-Life stances were just to get elected. The late Sen. Prescott Bush was the first treasurer of the organization that later became known as Planned Parenthood. I won’t say W wasn’t Pro-Life but I know his mother, wife, and daughter (not sure on both) is.
We had more than enough of those Free Traitors!
Don’t ever forget Kerry vs Bush either.
Reality Bites!
This morphing has been going on for a while. But one thing that Barry brought with him from ILL-ANNOY was the concept of “uni-party” which in ILL-ANNOY is known as “The Combine”, a term used frequently by the Chicago Tribune’s John Cass. Basically, The Combine is more interested in maintaining the power-class and places its interests above that of the electorate. For instance, high-powered attorneys linked to the Democrat Speaker’s office assist high-powered Republican legislators to aid them in avoiding various state taxes as passed by The Combine. That is just one small example. The pols place themselves way above the great unwashed electorate and facilitates the weak Republican Senator Mark Kirk - who is a de facto Democrat.
“And we would be much better off today if Pat Buchanan had been nominated instead of GHW Bush.”
I am not so sure about that.
Otherwise I generally share your sentiment.
But we shouldn’t expect saviors or even much with regard to people running for office.
It’s always best of a poor lot.
Trump just dug the grave.
GOP gave up it’s conservative ghost when Paul Ryan gave Obama MORE than he asked for in budget negotiations and they passed Fast Track for TPP, and were OK on increasing immigration. And just for note, Cruz was for TPP and increasing the 401b VISA immigration big time.
Pat Buchanan shot himself in the foot during his run with the “Jews are running the world” delusions....His campaign came to a grinding halt.
Pat is an anti-semite. That’s what did him in.
Nixon historian Joan Hoff pointed out in Reevaluating Richard Nixon: His Domestic Achievements:
“From the first to the last budget for which the Nixon administration was responsible; that is, from 1970 through 1975 spending on all human resource programs exceeded spending for defense for the first time since the Second World War. Funding for social welfare services under Nixon grew from $55 billion in 1970 to almost $132 billion in 1975 making him (not President Johnson) the “last of the big spenders” on domestic programs. This represented an increase from 28% of all federal outlays to 40.4%, compared to a decrease in defense spending in the same period from 40% of all federal outlays (or $78.6 billion) to 26.2% (or $85.6 billion).”
It was Nixon who announced on February 6, 1974: “Comprehensive health insurance is an idea whose time has come in America…There has long been a need to assure every American financial access to high quality health care. As medical costs go up, that need grows more pressing….Indeed, let us act sensibly. And let us act now–in 1974–to assure all Americans financial access to high quality medical care.”
EPA
OSHA
First president to create a deficit
Got us off the gold standard
I think it goes back as far as Goldwater in 1964. The GOPe torpedoed him. There have been skirmishes over the years but I think that since the 2000’s, the GOPe has been dead and does not even know it.
In 2010, the Tea Party (grass roots) showed how to win. What did the GOPe do? Attack the Tea Party in 2012-present.
I think that both Reagan and Trump were populists and won despite GOP-e opposition.
Pat Buchanan was a true conservative with values more similar to Reagan. Bush was a moderate ... globalist ... new world order sort of guy.
I am okay with free trade if it’s fair. Bush 41 and his clowns sold us down the river. He paved the road for Clinton to sign NAFTA.
If Pat said that, he shouldn’t have been elected.
He was doing well in the primaries but I forget what derailed him. Pat is right on so many things but if he’s anti-Semite, he’s so wrong.
Trump for President.
Absolutely true.
However to understand what's going on we need to know the parts of the players. For the typical GOPe confidence man* the elements of the Republican Party platform are merely talking-points to sucker the American Middle Class base voters into coming together in a herd and nullifying their power so that the Democrat bagman* side of the Uniparty can fleece them.
* Confidence Man: The confidence man is someone who gets a victim to trust them before taking their money or property. An example of a confidence man is a con artist who acts like they're in love to steal someone's money.
* Bagman: The bagman (or bag man) is a person designated to collect and/or distribute illicitly gained money ("dirty money"), such as bribes to public officials or money that is collected in a criminal enterprise, such as a "protection racket," or an intermediary in such transactions.
I posted essentially this same thing yesterday on another thread - it really is all "(GHW) Bush's Fault". One poster told me that it was Reagan's fault for nominating him. YMMV
Maybe it would have been better for the Democrats to be holding the bag after 9/11. There would have been NO way to blame it on Republicans, and it’s not like the end result could have been worse - a fiasco of a war, money and blood spilled to little avail, WMD’s spirited away. Regardless of the bravery of our soldiers the Bush follow through was as bad as deliberate Democrat skullduggery could have been.
My .02
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