Bush, was nothing more and nothing less than a closet liberal. I don't go for the old who are you going to believe me are your lying eyes, BS.
Carter
Clinton
Bush Senior
Obama
W is less conservative than those three?
If you cannot understand how W is definitely more conservative than those four then you do suffer from BDS.
I don’t disagree with Reagan being top 5. But at that point in time conservatives were willing to pick Reagan out of the intellectual trash heap and defend him.
President Bush defended this nation like few Presidents ever have, we ought to defend him against the unpatriotic lot that smeared him. It is completely fine to disagree on various points but the 100% flushing of his Presidency by “conservatives” does not sit well with me.
When Reagan died, I knew people who opened champagne to celebrate. The man was hated by many people— especially where I was in academia.
I have no doubt W has gotten a raw deal from the same crowd but I sense some spinelessness in the right of 2009 when it comes to W.
Let’s pretend that W = O and then argue we want a perfect Conservative.
Pretending that Reagan did not do amnesty and did not appoint Sandra Day O Connor among his chief blunders is fine because we accentuate those parts of conservative thinking and speech that we want today. W deserves to have the conservative components of his legacy defended.