American Thinker:
When George W. Bush ran, I supported him – to the max financially during the primary, then during the full campaign. In hindsight, he was a decent president early. He then sowed the seeds for his own destruction during the Iraq war and forgot who he was during his disastrous second term.
Or was it that he remembered who he was?
To this day, I am uncertain how to see the Bush family. I know they seemed decent as people, yet they made some terrible mistakes. Two of them served as president, and another was a relatively successful governor. They have left a mark on our country, a mark on our party, and history will judge them. W himself has said that.
I find myself hesitant to critique a family I voted for and donated to. Hesitant because they served with decorum. However, in advancing conservatism, they failed. We should examine why – not to tear them down, nor to add insult to injury, but to recognize those ideas and attributes that damaged the future of conservatism. We must avoid a repeat of the leftward lurch they may have caused or at least foreshadowed.
Remembering the speech of George H.W. Bush at his convention, two lines stand out. The first was “Read my lips: no new taxes.” That one got him elected. His second phrase was his vision for “a kinder, gentler, America.” Watching the camera pan to the Reagans at the convention, Nancy said something to her husband with a quizzical look. It was only later that we learned what she asked: “Kinder and gentler than what?” A great rhetorical question.
The Bush conundrum is actually about the pseudo-conservative public face of the men and the very active liberal private face of the women!
I never liked him, and grew to also dislike Rush Limbaugh when he had his nose up dubya’s and karl rove’s rear ends. I was and still am a Tom Tancredo / Jeff Sessions law and order stop the invasion kind of guy. The bush family would cheerfully turn us into Latin America Norte and see every native citizen go unemployed and save costs for their corporate buddies.
Buck- I still remember during a debate a question was asked of a ticking time bomb what would you do as POTUS and Tancredo’s response was “I’m looking for Jack Bauer”. I remember yelling at the TV “That is the correct answer!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0D1jre8GlQ
I voted libertarian the first time he ran, because I live in Texas and knew he was a liberal like his daddy. My conscious was clear because I figured NOBODY would vote for Gore!
The second time I learned not to under-estimate stupid and voted for W because I absolutely hate the traitor Kerry.
But I never believed in this turd.
I also am major disillusioned in the Bush’s – I donated to the Bush 41 and Bush 43 Presidential libraries in past years. But when Bush 41 mentioned that he will vote for Hillary, I told them both to shove it !
FYI – The recent newsletters from the Bush 43 Library is full of touchy-feely BS.
Shouldn’t Bush the elder be older and wiser to know better?
New World Order Skull & Bones lizard people.
The two Bushes set this country back almost as much as the two Clintons. Neither one of them understood what made Ronald Reagan a great president. We went to war with Iraq despite plenty of evidence that there were no weapons of mass destruction in the country, because: “He tried to kill my Dad.” We were invaded by millions of Mexicans because Bush had a Mexican maid in Houston when he was growing up. Evidently this maid was a hard working, illegal alien who endeared herself to the Bush family, and convinced them that most Mexicans were just like her. His younger brother, Jeb, married a Mexican. When 9/11 happened, Bush could have really secured our borders, but he didn’t bother, since it would have required him to get serious about illegal immigration from Mexico. They deserve the verdict of history they have stuck us with.
The Bushes are squishy socialists.
Good people (as individuals) but so mired in the socialist mindset that they no longer recognize it (fish having a perception of water, and all that).
They are not of the socialistic vein as Hitler, Stalin, Mao, &c. but more akin to the EuroTrash Socialist Wannabees – the soft soap socialists like Sweden, Norway, France, Germany, England, Spain, Italy, …, where they’re willing to see their country destroyed, but not to actively participate in that destruction. They only understand Aristocracy, not really what it means to be American – which is why they meld so well with other trashy rich people who have nothing but contempt for America (and Americans).
izlamo delenda est …
I think a little more kindly on W (not so much on his father) and I think that he was a good wartime President who could have won Iraq by employing the thousands of unemployed Iraqi’s simply by giving them the rebuild jobs instead of contracting them out to just about anybody but an Iraqi. There would have been increased security events but in return we would have had thousands of Iraqi’s with new freedoms and full stomachs and the Americans to thank for it.
The other thing I think sooner or later history will judge W on was his lack of courage in facing down the likes of Jesse Jackson, Barney Frank and all the other left progressives and race hustlers out there over the CRA and the crap mortgages. I’ve read that in or around 2003 rumours were abound that this program was in deep financial trouble, that accounting tricks were being used to hide the coming disaster and that it was large enough to threaten the financial system. Bush started an investigation but was warned off it by the aforementioned players who told him that everything was fine, blacks were getting homes and if he tried to investigate an all out effort by the house, the media, the blacks and everyone else to label him and his administration racist. Bush backed down. Reagan wouldn’t have and if Bush hadn’t backed down the financial mess of 2007/2008 could have been greatly diminished had cleanup started in 2003.
scr_north – good analysis. It’s also likely that the Kenyan Communist Mohammedan Obama wouldn’t have been able to steal the election and create The New Depression, which we are still climbing out of.
the bush’s are nwo’s or one worlder’s.
just one more of the faces of the ruling elite.
hw bush was cia all the way. he’s a bankers man all the way.
and neither one of them care what you think about them, they got theirs.
as the younger said history will define them, well history is written by the “winners”, and in their minds their winning.
Dumb and Dumber
Maybe the Bushes shoulda used more conundrums, if you know what I mean.
(I never could spell)
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I despise every single branch on the bush family tree.
At least the phuckers weren’t outright communists
like barky, you can give them that.