Posted on 10/28/2009 6:24:21 AM PDT by nuconvert
They exited with all the "Bush = Obama" clowns. Where are they now? Suckers.
McNuts.
Good points. I liked Bush personally, and still think he’s a good guy, BUT, on policy, he was often wrong headed and tin eared.
His border policy announcement occurred during the height of concern about terrorism. His approval rating dropped after this and never recovered. Many on FR and Rush Limbaugh agreed with him about the Dubai ports deal, but I thought that was his “jump the shark” moment. He never recovered after that. The first time he took a stand and threatened Congress with a veto was over a deal to put the ports under control of a business entity based in a Muslim country. Whether it was a good deal or not, it was politically one of the stupidest moves of the modern era.
While he kept the religious right for the most part, he greatly damaged Republican standing with fiscal conservatives and small government types. For Republicans to win, they need fiscal and social conservatives, plus libertarians. Reagan was the only President I’ve seen that successfully juggled this tough coalition.
You kidding? You just admitted that GWB talked us into invasion over WMDs that didn't exist. In fact Cheney went on NBC in 2003 and threatened us with “ Mushroom clouds over US cities” and said “Iraq oil would pay for reconstruction.“
RE :” Paulsen scared the daylights out of Bush and there were a whole bunch of lawmakers who also met with Paulsen and were also scared. Did they do the right thing? I'm not sure. It may actually have been the right decision. ”
Well if you think TARP1 was the RIGHT THING that tells were you are coming from. Investors get the gains (w capital gains tax cuts yet) and taxpayers get stuck with the losses. Great motto you gave the Republican party. And you wonder why 2006 and 2008 were disasters.
RE :” The economic collapse can be laid directly at the feet of a bunch of Democrats and the truth is that Bush tried to warn congress—more than once. ”
HAH, Bush told us to buy, buy ,buy, invest, invest ,invest, borrow ,borrow ,borrow. He never warned US of anything. Even these so called warnings to congress were to HIS republican congress. He bragged about his ‘economy’ and promoted home ownership for minorities with bad credit and bragged about it. Mark Levin bragged about that too, You Bush's thought you could rewrite history after the crash but you cant.
“The University of Freedom. I like that. Maybe we should have one of those.”
Kind of sounds like the Limbaugh/EIB Institute of Higher
Conservative Learning (yeah, I surely didn’t get that phrase
totally correct).
I find it humorous that you presume to tell us what Bush said, while you are simultaneously demonstrating that you didn’t listen.
” “Whatever you think you’re going to see with this guy — good
or bad — your reaction will be anywhere from pleasantly surprised to
completely blown away.” “
I was pleasantly suprised when that CNBC reporter Steve Leeson (sp?)
said he was blown away by the depth of economic knowledge Dubya
exhibited when he interviewed Dubya.
And Leeson does lean a bit to the left/Democratic side, so the compliment
was even greater.
He is and was always, a GOOD speaker, who occasionally mixed up words (which he readily admitted, and which is all the MSM ever used as soundbites).
The four times I heard him, he never stumbled, and he never used a teleprompter.
K, well I was wrong then,, never heard him speak in person.
Sorry heh.
RE :”I find it humorous that you presume to tell us what Bush said, while you are simultaneously demonstrating that you didn’t listen”
Listen?
“As Bush spoke of families held together by love, of HIV-AIDS projects in Africa and of educational reform designed to raise up the most vulnerable of children, was this the same moron..”
YES.
The Bushes are a Klan of trans-national globalists. There are TWO reasons we have a Marxist Muslim in the White House:
George W. Bush and John McCain.
Holy crap! President Bush never said anything like that. What leftist propaganda have you been feeding on?
Was this the same GWB that told us that the Iraq war was on-course, for two years while Americans soldiers were being cut down, and then after losing the 2006 midterms suddenly discovered it was not on-course and required the NEW democrat congress to fund the surge (not Bush's deficit according to Bush-bots.)
President Bush, as Commander in Chief, listened to his Generals on the ground who were telling him the war was on course. Your cynical, idiotic connection with the 2006 elections is absurd. The surge was in the works before the election, and if the election affected his decision, he would NOT have committed more troops to the war. He would have withdrawn.
btw, what leftist site gives you your talking points?
(I also heard Bush campaigning on immigration reform--funny how people are still "astounded" about it).
The econ-stuff is straight from Kos.
OY
Klinton’s just 3 lbs o-sh-t in a 1 lb. bag. Lies to Grand Juries too.
Yes, and it appears Texans didn't forget.
He and his dad were at the Texans game at Reliant Stadium on Sunday and participated in the opening activities (the coin toss). The crowd's reaction to seeing them was one of delight, enthusiasm and respect. About 70,000 people seemed to be thrilled that he was there.
It was Military Day at the stadium, and the expressions on the faces of the troops in attendance also said it all.
Here's the rub, IMO. I want someone who talks like an every day citizen instead of a lawyer or smarmy politician. At least I know when Bush says something he means it. If we had more like him maybe we'd feel better about some of our candidates.
-Bush's VP Cheney did not run
-The Republican candidate was weak and ran a rotten campaign
-There was a (leftist orchestrated and caused) economic collapse 2 months before the election
The Dems ran a shadow candidate with no record, making no commitments, lying every single day
-The leftist slobbering media (and some so-called "conservatives") covered for Obama's radical background, and lied about him in every report.
-Obama was funded by millions of illegal overseas dollars
-Young Americans have been raised with white guilt in liberal academic institutions, and thought it would be cool to vote for the American Idol candidate.
The list is even longer, ZULU. Blaming Bush for Obama is ridiculous. Get rid of those feelings and start dealing with reality.
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