Posted on 12/07/2018 12:52:51 PM PST by Rummyfan
Amidst the lavish praise for the late president, George H.W. Bush, allow me to offer a contrarian view.
As we learned from the funeral of the non-president, John McCain, the leftist media has rarely met an ineffective Republican politician they didn’t want to celebrate when he passed, no matter what they’d said about him during his time here on Earth. In the interests of “bipartisanship,” “comity,” and “civility,” the years the dearly departed moved among us are seen retrospectively as a kind of Golden Age, when Republicans lost graciously to the designated Democrat, whether as a first-time candidate or (even better) a defeated one-termer sent packing so the Democrat Restoration could be implemented, and the natural order of American politics restored.
In the case of Bush the Elder, however, Poppy’s defeat at the hands (sorry) of Bill Clinton was not only fully deserved—the man was a natural non-politician up against the best campaigner of his generation—but actually welcome. Not only did he—read my lips—betray the legacy of Ronald Reagan in his electorally fatal decision to welsh on his “no new taxes” pledge, not only did he cut the legs out from under the Reagan Revolution by calling for a “kinder, gentler America,” but he also egregiously mishandled the Gipper’s most important legacy: the defeat of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
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Of GHWB tempered comments on the fall of the Berlin Wall:
“We’ll just have to wait & see.”
Nuff said.
His comments on a “New World Order”still send a chill up my spine.
While Bush senior had faults of policy, every president does, i for one refuse to speak ill of the dead.
From communist monopoly to anarcho-capitalism to ex-KGB-run oligarchy in just a few years.
I don't know that some sort of Marshall Plan would have worked. Better would have been Russia segueing into something like a Christian Democrat nation a la Kohl's West Germany. Then only later working it's way toward a more open US-like market.
New World Order Bushism changed everything in America and the world while nuking Reaganism.
The worst thing Bush did was domestic policy, refusing to secure the borders or enforce the laws, resulting in 30 million illegal aliens.
Most of US did not want to become North Mexico, even if Yeb! loves them.
That's fine, for this week. But it's not a good idea. So much of what GHWB did has been left alone while he was alive. Give the man his week. But let's be real. GHWB is an important historical figure. It's necessary to investigate his deeds (and misdeeds), his successes (and failures) while those who can give testimony to what occurred are still alive.
That is fine if you choose. I leave the arm chair politicking to armchair politicos. I am not a historian, as a citizen i was finished with the Bush dynasty at the end of H W’s 4 years.
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