Posted on 11/05/2012 8:46:35 PM PST by WilliamIII
One of the most telling aspects of the 2012 presidential campaign now racing to its end is the matter of the vanishing former two-term Republican president. His name is so seldom mentioned by his party's nominee and other stalwarts as to take on the characteristic of a toxic distant uncle.
That other GOP two-termer, Ronald Reagan, continues posthumously to enjoy the stature of political sainthood among the faithful. But the 43rd president, who is the son and namesake of the 41st, has been neither seen nor heard from in the blizzard of speech-making and television advertising by and in behalf of party standard-bearer Mitt Romney.
Yes, the missing person in the picture would be George W. Bush, now seemingly under party house arrest back in Texas as Mr. Romney runs as far away as he can get from Mr. Bush and his White House tenure. Memories of the junior Bush economic hangover haunt not only President Barack Obama, still struggling to recover from it, but also the Republican who wants Mr. Bush's old job.
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Barrack Obama ain’t a pimple on George Bush’s ass.
Barrack Obama ain’t a pimple on George Bush’s ass.
Bush’s unpopularity made the Obama presidency possible.
Nixon?
Ike?
Some writers only know Carter on.
It's more unlikely for Obama to be re-elected. Bill Clinton was the last Democrat to be elected to two terms since Harry S Truman and Clinton had help twice from Ross Pee-rot.
I hope not. He was nearly as destructive to conservatism as was Nixon, his dad, or Schwarzenegger.
Bush spent like a drunken retard in Iraq. He never fought back against the left. He tried to foist Harriet Miers, and gave us a Chief Justice who's looking more like Earl Warren by the day. He never hung the Community Reinvestment Act around the Democrats' necks. He built the DHS, the TSA, and neglected the border and Latin America to fester violent criminal communists. He never fixed the environmental agencies. When the floor gave, he merely caved to Goldman Sachs instead of letting some of those crooked RAT bastard banks sink.
Why should I celebrate George Bush?
LONG AGO when it was unpopular HERE to say it, I said Jorge El Segundo would become a curse on the lips of every conservative.
Wow you sound like Obama, Bush’s Fault Bush’s Fault Bush’s Fault. Bush did to much, he did not do enough, get over it! I respect him more for just staying the hell out of the way and being quiet. Unlike every friggin retarded Democrap ex president. Let the man be.
Nearly every evil expanded under BO had it genesis under Jorge El Segundo.
He didn't defend himself.
Bull Shit
He didn't defend himself.
“GWB’s biggest lapse: he did nothing to defend the Republican brand.”
Communication matters. If he can’t defend himself, he can’t expect others to defend him.
You nailed that.Bush never got over how we busted his backside over amnesty and punished this country by handing the 08 election to the marxist.He never stood up to the left and left the base demoralized and of course then we had that pathetic excuse for a candidate on our side in 08 brought to us by the RINO NC.
When democrats came to power in jan 2007 the economy was doing great. Unemployment was 4.7 the deficit was going down rapidly because of record revenues to the treasury. Those results were driven by good tax cuts that did not increase the deficits.
Bush kept the nation safe from further terror attacks.
Conservatives and republicans do not invite bush because they are owned by America’s intellectual establishments. They believe the outrageous theater of Katrina and Iraq the illegal war.
Reagan did amnesty. Bush didn’t. Reagan did o Connor for the court. Reagan saw massive deficits and was less effective militarily than bush.
I respect him more for just staying the hell out of the way and being quiet. Unlike every friggin retarded Democrap ex president.
He’s staying out of the way because the GOP doesn’t want him around, he’s toxic. In contrast, Reagan was welcome at campaign events for years after he left office, right up till he had to stop because of his illness. Reagan didn’t “stay out of the way and be quiet” Bush is doing so because he’s so deservedly unpopular.
Colonel Flagg, you sir, are correct.
Bush’s fault? Get over it. Although Bush wasn’t Reagan, he was more damaged by a Democrat media and a Democrat congress than he was by his policies. At the time he wasn’t “unpopular” for his big spending (though we certainly could have done without his prescription drug joint-venture with Teddy Kennedy), but for his unwavering foreign policy — exactly what made him popular among conservatives.
Well I’m sure if he went on all the talk shows and did interviews with all the glam magazines like the mulato he would have been treated with respect and deference and allowed to make his case and defense. I wonder where you were during his administration while the left and the media hammered him with lies and insults that you think defending himself would even be possible. Find someone new to bag on, I believe Obama and Biden are available.
Amen! Great posting re. the incompetent & inept legacy of GW Bush, most significantly his pandering & capitulation to the demoRATs & the media. I recall the entire 8 years of GW Bush, and signing hundreds (or so it seemed) petitions I would receive in the mail from staunch, Godly conservatives & patriots just BEGGING GW Bush to do the right thing for America. In most cases he was a tin-eared liberal wannabee and usually ended up doing the worst thing for America.
When democrats came to power in jan 2007 the economy was doing great.
No, we wer in the 8th year of a housing bubble that was about to burst and wreak havoc on the economy. The bubble was pumped up by policies that Bush helped promote — easy lending to poor people. Rove and Bush thought it would buy them minority votes. Instead, it bought us the biggest recession since the 1930s.
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