Posted on 12/03/2018 8:35:07 AM PST by SeekAndFind
He was a fool to agree to raise taxes. That caused a recession and cost him his job.
WOW! GMTA!
While he was Reagan’s VP, Bush was colluding with the Communist leader of the Soviet Union against a sitting President.
HW defined “Russian Collusion”!!!
Here’s the article where George H W Bush told the leader of the Soviet Union in 1987 that the conservatives who voted for Reagan were gullible idiots... “blockheads/dummies” has to be what was lost in the Russian translation.
https://www.rawstory.com/2009/10/gorbachev-bush-reagan-extreme/
Gorbachev: Bush 41 Called Ronald Reagan “Extreme,” Called Reagan’s Conservative Supporters “blockheads” By Daniel Tencer
29 Oct 2009 at 15:45 ET
Vice President George H. W. Bush confided in Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that he believed Ronald Reagan was an “extreme conservative” supported by “blockheads and dummies,” the former Soviet leader claims.
“In 1987, after my first visit to the United States, Vice President Bush accompanied me to the airport, and told me:
‘Reagan is a conservative. An extreme conservative. All the blockheads and dummies are for him, and when he says that something is necessary, they trust him. But if some Democrat had proposed what Reagan did, with you, they might not have trusted him,’” Gorbachev said in an interview with The Nation.
Gorbachev added that he had been informed that, following their first summit in 1985, Reagan reportedly described his Soviet counterpart as a “die-hard Bolshevik” — this despite the fact that Gorbachev would soon come to be known as a reformer who opened up the Soviet Union politically and ushered in an era of co-operation between east and west.
It’s no surprise that there were tensions between Reagan and the elder Bush.
Ross Perot. That’s it.
IMO, voters thought GHWB would be a third term of Reagan. What we got was a foreshadow of “compassionate conservatism, e.g. Democrat lite.
In politics and life, the only thing you find in the middle of the road is dead possums.
Vote fraud? That’d be my guess.
Great? A lot better than Clinton but a lot worse than Reagan.
OK, I stand corrected. Just trying to give him the benefit of the doubt, I guess undeserved. thx
The Republicans didn’t learn a thing. Thereafter, they gave us Dole, McCain and Romney.
He signed a tax hike and the economy went into the toilet. IE he WAS NOT a great President. Was he even a “good” one?
This farticle’s fatalism is nonsense. His fate was in his own hands and he effed up and got a humiliating 9.8 million fewer votes than he did 4 years prior.
Not a very large group. Only two two-term Presidents were single the entire 8 years they were in office--Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, both of them widowers. Jefferson faced more difficult challenges because of the ongoing war in Europe at the time.
Where’s your evidence that all or most of the 18% who voted for Perot would have otherwise voted for Bush if Perot weren’t in the race, as opposed to not voting at all or even voting for Clinton? Oh, that’s right, you have none, so you just repeat the RNC party line rather than facing the fact that if Bush were a halfway decent President and candidate, third party candidates wouldn’t matter (in most other races, third party candidates of any kind are lucky to get more than 1%).
“No new taxes” is why I voted for Perot. I was a little young then.
Mostly agree, but would add that he pissed off the NRA.
Me too! (And my wife).
Perot was just a bit before his time (re: Trump today).
Of course the second time he started a run, it seemed he had a screw loose. Although it would be interesting to look back at all of that knowing how evil the media is/was.
Exactly.
Oh please.
Perot only picked up the votes Bush left on the table.
And Poppa Bush left a lot of votes on the table.
That was Bush’s fault.
He lied about taxes and also
Lied about supporting the Kurds during the first gulf war. Got a lot of them killed believing his empty promises.
Bush, the Skull&Bones CIA spook who engineered JFK’s murder, set up Nixon’s demise and just missed killing President Reagan was too busy to be president and had hand-picked his successor.
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