There are all kinds of unethical truths held to be part of history.
This may be one.
We still each have the opportunity to defend what is right as individuals.
President Bush was one of the greatest presidents the nation has had.
Rove wants to be a political power broker today so he plays along with this silly mythology. Rumsfeld was the sacrificial lamb for the culture of hate that conservatives played along with and now condone.
The Bush tax cuts INCREASED revenue to the government.
Bush not Obama— saved the auto industry and required fiscally conservative principals of repaying the loans with interest.
Our culture celebrates president Clinton as a modern political truth teller. The man engaged in serial sexual assault and perjury.
Conservatives as individuals refuse to defend and speak for what is right. That is why things are the way they are and will continue to be so.
Bush makes a convenient scapegoat but we will not escape this nonsense until we admit our individual responsibility.
I don’t think you understand my posts.
W understood the Islamic threat, understood the value of the free market, and understood the importance of conservative values. Those are to his credit.
My point is that W failed to vigorously defend his policies. That is a fact that everybody who was paying attention at the time knows to be true. Those of us who supported him for eight years waited and waited for the Bush administration to fight back against the slander, but, being a Bush, W felt that it was somehow beneath the dignity of the White House to engage in politics. The two exceptions were the fight in the aftermath of the 2000 election in Florida, and during the 2004 election. His failure to fight back resulted in the American people believing the lies told about him. The false impressions that the Democrats were able to fix in the minds of the American people because he refused to fight back are there today, to the point that no Republican dare associate himself with his administration. Americans falsely believe that our economic troubles are his fault.
Karl Rove revealed that not defending himself was a conscious decision of W’s. Everybody knows it. And it was an obvious mistake.