“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.
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.
“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.
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.
I thought it was a “phony” crown.
Dead as a door nail...
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.
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.
Trump for President.
in my opinion, the GOP went on death watch when the red, liberal media took Barry Goldwater down in 1964. This was cemented with the 18 year old vote 26th Amendment in 1971.
It’s interesting to think, for the past four decades, the fate of the Republican Party has basically been determined by the extent to which it is or is not ruled by the Bush family. Hopefully, Trump will finally put a stake in them, but it’s not going to be easy.