Posted on 12/01/2018 7:01:57 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
It will go down as one of the most famous broken promises in political history. In 1988, George H.W. Bush stood before delegates to the Republican National Convention and vowed: "Read my lips: no new taxes."
Bush, who died Friday night at 94, had been trailing opponent Michael Dukakis by as much as 17 points. He made the pledge as part of his effort to draw a contrast with an opponent he wanted to define as a Massachusetts tax and spend liberal. It worked and helped him win in a landslide.
But then, in 1990, under pressure to strike a budget deal with the Democratic-controlled Congress, Bush relented and agreed to hike taxes.
American politics and policy has never been the same.
The sense of betrayal aided Newt Gingrich's rise to power. As the number two Republican in the House minority at the time, he broke with Bush and led a rebellion against the budget deal. Though the deal ended up passing anyway, his opposition helped rally conservatives behind him, and it fueled his eventual ascent to the speakership when Republicans took control of the House four years later.
Bush, meanwhile, was dogged by the broken pledge during his 1992 reelection campaign, both in the primary against Pat Buchanan and in the general election, in which Bill Clinton used the issue to effectively muddy the waters on the honesty question.
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Hinkley and his family dined with the Bush family right before John Hinkley shot Reagan.
It ended the coalition Reagan put together of republicans and “blue dog” democrats. Reagan transformed the party and Bush wrecked that.
In WWII, during the attack on Chichijima, 9 aviators were shot down. 8 of them were captured by the Japanese and their livers were eaten. Only one aviator wasn’t captured. That was George HW Bush. I think the man made a deal with the Devil. Not joking.
JFK
CIA
Hinckley
Globalism
The thread of his life is bad.
Bkmrk.
Listen to the press later in the video. Same FAKE NEWS refrain with Trump and Insiders as it was with Reagan and Insiders.
Senator’s make lousy Presidents.....Republican or Democrat. Some worse than others.
They asked “Poppy” Bush where he was when JFK was shot.
He said he couldn’t remember.
In fact he was in DALLAS.
Since JFK was killed there, and Bush was in Dallas, how plausible is it that he didn’t remember that..??
It cost Bush the election!
Donald Trump was elected by Democrats in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and probably Ohio.
The districts that went 2x for Obama and then for Trump are the most important districts in the nation.
And, the ability to address the interests and concerns of working class white Americans, by a Republican, is the greatest threat to globalism and to the plan to subvert American sovereignty.
After the globalists put Poppy Bush in office, they thought the Reagan coalition was dead forever. This is why they are so hysterical over our President.
Having said that, I also believe this country would have been better off if George H. W. Bush had simply decided against running in 1988 and faded into obscurity. For 25 years after that, this country was governed as if it was owned by the Saudi royal family.
His Presidency ended due to the cancer from budget deficit.
“But here at home, there’s another threat - a cancer gnawing away at our nation’s health. That cancer is the budget deficit. Year after year, it mortgages the future of our children.”
You can’t play nice with Dems....ever. Either you keep the heel of your boot on their throat or they have a knife at your throat. There is no in between.
As is typical with conspiracy nuts, bits of truth get distorted and then retold with innaccurate details to implicate usually right wing targets. Hinkley never had dinner with anyone from the Bush family. Hinkley was to have been brought as a date of an invite to a dinner gathering set at the home of Neil Bush in Denver, but the event was cancelled and never took place. Hinkley’s family were donors to republican causes including one of the Bush campaigns.
President Bush negotiated spending caps with the Democraps (that was their part of the deal) along with the tax hikes. As soon as the tax hikes too effect, the spending caps came off. Bush broke his election promise to America and the rats broke their promise to him. Nobody remembers the Democraps part of the deal. It wasn’t reported. The whole mess showed Republicans should never have handshake agreements with Democrats because they are an unprincipled lot.
In response to the comment about senators making bad presidents. Absolutely right. The president is a CEO and I’m convinced we need a strong and successful conservative businessman as president. Things get done by a president who knows the value of a dollar, and practices good stewardship of the money he manages.
I couldn’t vote for him after that LIE. I voted for the libertarian.
In 1988 Pat Robertson was leading in the Iowa polls. I went to a speech by a rising political columnist in DuPage County, IL. Everyone in the room was far left academic except me.
After the speech I asked the columist about Pat Robertson in Iowas. His replay was that he would take down that televangelist. The Sunday before the election the Headline in the papers, and on TV was “Pat Robertson caught in ses scandal”.
What was the sex scandal? If you turned from the front page headline to the details buries deep inside it was alleged that Pat Robertson Jr was born 8 months after his parents wedding. So the scandal was that his parents had sex to conceive him.
Pat Robertson crashed in the polls and Bush I survived, and the journalist had predicted and wanted.
Events like that formed the political views of the Ralph Reeds of the world. The ChristianCoalition/MoralMajority united in an effort to register Evangelicals to vote. It took them a couple years. They were not yet a national factor in 1992.
In 1994 the CC/MM delivered to the election booth millions of Evangelicals who had never before voted, not for Bush, not for Reagan. They provided the ground troops for Newt’s revolution. Newt could not have done it without them. And they could not have done it without Newt.
Those millions of new voters also created a Republican Senate. They felt totally betrayed by the actions of the Senate and especially the Senate leaders. They were new to politics and lacked the sophisticated analysis of the establishment. Most of those millions have never voted since.
In 2000 Karl Rove strategized that if he could get just a few of those who voted in 1994 and not in 96 or 98 to come back and vote, he would win. Karl Rove’s strategy and tactics won.. just barely as the Evangelicals in FL did not come out in the numbers he had hoped.
In going door-to-door in 1998, 99, 2000, 2001, 2002 the hardest thing for me to learn was that I was wasting my time spending so much time on trying to get the social conservatives, especially the pro-lifers, to come out and vote.
In 2002 I thought that surely, with the ideal pro-life candidate for governor in the Republican primary I would finally be able to sell them on coming out to vote. I wasted a lot of time on them that would have been more effectively spent appealing to the economic capitalism of my candidate.
Conclusion. Events triggered by one person cascade down to many other events and people.
Bush said no “new” taxes, not that taxes wouldn’t go UP.
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