[sickoflibs]

I dont think Sarah Palin was too impressed with the Bush record of fiscal responsibility:

November 11, 2008 :Sarah Palin told local reporters in Alaska that unhappiness with the Bush administration’s Iraq war policy and spending record were responsible for the GOP ticket’s defeat this year

[Cheetahcat]

“I dont think Sarah Palin was too impressed with the Bush record of fiscal responsibility:
November 11, 2008 :Sarah Palin told local reporters in Alaska that unhappiness with the Bush administration’s Iraq war policy and spending record were responsible for the GOP ticket’s defeat this year”

No GW missed The fiscal responsibility Class while attending Mexican Migration Classes.

[PhilCollins]

Bush’s budgets were too liberal. They increased spending more than Clinton’s budgets. In 2004, the Depts. of HUD, HHS, Education, and Energy received at least 22% more than they received in ‘01.

[dools007]

I would add that Bush’s pro-illegal alien policy turned off many conservatives, too.

Also, I think you have to factor in Bush’s “new tone” nonsense. His consistant failure to respond at all, or in any meaningful way, to dem attacks made him appear weak and guilty. And I got so tired of the same one or two canned speeches he recited for 8 years. In other words, he was the antithisis of a dynamic leader.

And then there was his failure to purge Clintoon “leave behinds”. These people set him up regularly for negative headlines and he never responded—by attacking them and/or dismissing them.

Then, in the only instance I know of, when he changed out a bunch of Justice lawyers (normally a routine action by new presidents) he allowed the dems to politicize it. Again, no meaningful response other than throwing his own Atty. Gen. under the bus.

This mirrored how Bush allowed the dems to politicize the Fed. response to Hurricane Katrina. His administration totally buckled under the demrat onslaught of lies and disinformation. Typically, Bush threw his own FEMA director under the bus.