[Lurkinanloomin]

George H.W. Bush is the President who was supposed to implement the enforcement provisions of the 1986 amnesty.
It never happened.
He set in motion the illegal alien inundation that continued to accelerate through the next three Presidents following his bipartisan plan to force US into another amnesty.
George H. W. Bush is the reason we have 30 million illegal aliens and a Senate full of traitors hell bent of turning the USA into North Mexico.

[ek_hornbeck]

GHW Bush was a half-way decent foreign policy President - he and his foreign policy team had more sense than his son did and more respect for US interests than Clinton or Obama. Unfortunately, that was about the only good thing that could be said about the elder Bush - he was a liberal Rockefeller Republican on just about every domestic issue (from gun control to taxes). And as Lurkin said, he was an enthusiastic supporter of mass third world immigration.

I'd put him in the same category as Nixon - decent on foreign policy most of the time, a liberal disaster in just about everything else.

[Rockingham]

George H.W. Bush deserves credit for mostly pulling the USSR's fangs at the end of the Cold War, but he proved to be singularly inept at domestic politics. This led to Bush's defeat for reelection and the frittering away of much of his accomplishment in contriving a peaceful end to the Cold War.

Unwilling to follow the Reagan formula and hostile toward Reagan's advisers and allies, Bush arrogantly scorned the potential to turn Reagan's coalition into an enduring GOP majority and lost to Bill Clinton. In office for eight dismal years, Clinton failed to secure a democratic regime in Russia or an international order to dissuade or contain the revanchism that emerged under Putin.

Perhaps worst of all, the extraordinary Bush family coziness with Prince Bandar and the Saudis facilitated the success of the 9/11 plot by fostering a blindness by US security officials toward Saudi support for terrorism. This had devastating consequences on 9/11.