There was Bush's gaffe at the grocery store scanner that reinforced the image of how out of touch he was.
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...RINOs will do that.
It was over 9% when GHWB was inaugurated in January 1989, and dropped consistently for nearly four years -- until it was below 3% by Election Day in 1992.
The author of this slop is 100% full of sh!t.
Yep. Can Trump fire the chairman?
I heard Bush begged Greenspan to cut rates. He wouldn’t do it. But he cut the rates right after Clinton was sworn in. Greenspan is married to an nbc “reporter”.
“No new taxes” wasn’t hindering any such thing. Taxes were too high as it was.
The government has a spending problem—it doesn’t and didn’t suffer from insufficient confiscation of citizens’ wealth.
When H. Ross Perot, ran and then didn't, his 20% killed bush. Bush would have won, but trying to make a deal with the demonRATS, raise taxes and cut spending, he only got what he deserved, higher taxes, and they shoved it up his ass on the cut spending.
You cannot make deal with the demonRATs, they lie, cheat and steal.
Bush ‘41 lost the election because Ross Perot siphoned off enough repub votes to saddle America with the Clinton plague...which is still with us today.
Thanks, Ross, you moron.
He should have blamed the Democrat shills in the so-called “news” media for reporting on a routine, indeed minor, economic down cycle as thought it was the return of the Great Depression.
A lot of people fell for that.
I never gave a crap about not balancing the budget after a war that detroyed the fourth largest army in the world.
I cared about vowing that the world would unite in a new world order with sovereignty ceded to the U.N. and about not finishing the job in Iraq and dismantling the border enforcement measures Reagan had put in place.
No, Bush’s loss wasn’t about taxes...just as Islam is not a religion of peace.
And so far, each successive member of the Bush family gets worse and worse. George P. makes his father, uncle, and Grandfather look like patriotic models of American values.
He also banned the import of some cool guns.
“Read my lips, no new taxes.” Proof that you should be very wary when making deals with the Democrats. Remember this when people talk about comprehensive immigration reform. Democrats will lie.
There was Bush's gaffe at the grocery store scanner that reinforced the image of how out of touch he was.
Bush lost because he broke his word about no new taxes and he had no passion in running again.
George HW Bush (R.I.P.) wasn’t nearly the counter puncher that President Trump is in matters like this.
Mr. Trump will not give up on his quest to M.A.G.A. and K.A.G.
Bush was all about foreign policy and never domestic. He lost because he forgot to think about We the People.
Those sorts of agreements never see the promised reductions. Ever.
My recollection is that Bush made a deal with the Dems, I believe it was Ted Kennedy. The Dems said if Bush would come off his pledge, “no new taxes,” they would approve a sizable reduction in expenditures. He did approve the taxes, the Dems reneged. Bush 41 lost the election as the Dems make a big deal of Bush’s new taxes. How do you remember it?
Never trust a Democrat!
Two words: Ross Perot.
Little hand grenade.
He still on the planet?
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He broke his word.
He caused his own loss.
I thought EVERYONE knew this.
He lost because the Democrats talked him into raising taxes at that stupid economy summit.
Then, run video of him saying ad nauseum, “Read My Lips, NO NEW TAXES”.
The end.
An incumbent president, with a previous approval rate of 89%. Yes, EIGHTY NINE PER CENT!!!!!, went on to total defeat in his reelection bid.
It was “Read My Lips, NO NEW TAXES”.
He made a pledge, a commitment, a covenant, a vow, with the American people and he broke it.