Posted on 04/23/2013 5:17:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
It took less than 4 1/2 years of the Obama presidency for President George W. Bush to mount his comeback. While doing absolutely nothing on his own behalf (he’s been the most silent ex-president in my lifetime), his approval is up to 47 percent according to The Post/ABC poll. That’s up 14 points from his final poll in office. For comparison’s sake President Obama’s RCP average is a tad over 49 percent.
Why the shift? Aside from the “memories fade” point, many of his supposed failures are mild compared to the current president (e.g. spending, debt). Unlike Obama’s tenure, there was no successful attack on the homeland after 9/11. People do remember the big stuff — rallying the country after the Twin Towers attack, 7 1/2 years of job growth and prosperity, millions of people saved from AIDS in Africa, a good faith try for immigration reform, education reform and a clear moral compass.
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as though the libtards expect Odungo to take a major hit
Regardless of what low opinion anyone may hold of George W. Bush, the idea that Obama would be an improvement was insane. Anyone who thought that even back in 2007 was simply not looking at reality. Obama’s election was surely a case of national mass hysteria.
...or TARP.
If Dubya’s approval ratings are rebounding, then it will be safe for the GOPe to rally around Jeb Bush for 2016
Yes, the administration should have defended themselves and their supporters. They made the decision not to battle the opponent on the pr front/our issues/our platform. Why, I don’t know honestly though I believe it took more than silence in helping Obama to become elected.
...but he's a classy el patron and lives up to the meme of American royalty, which is so fundamentally important to a constitutional republic. /s
They tried to make him a conservative, when in fact he isn’t.
And IMO, that was a terrible ,devastating error. His failure in the bully pulpit was his worst failure - guaranteeing he never got credit for some things that he did indeed do well.
Whew...you had me going for a second.....
As a fiscal hawk and someone who admires Calvin Coolidge, Eisenhower and Reagan I find Bush’s presidency hard to swallow.
He started running deficits from 2002, he started 2 wars that have lasted a decade or more, he expanded social programs and he bailed out Wall Street.
He rejected limited government for some bizarre mix of corporatism, expanding government and a neocon foreign policy that wishes to “spread democracy” to barbaric countries where democracy is alien.
When the history books are written i’ve no doubt he will be seen as a terrible president and i’m relieved he’s gone.
Not that Obama is better but i’m happy that Bush doesn’t define conservatism any more because it’s a kind of conservatism I reject and always have.
Also what’s with taking his approval rating? He’s never going to run for anything again.
This Bush nostalgia is quite frankly sickening and we need to look to new leaders like Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Ted Cruz etc. i.e people who actually believe in limiting government and want to “shut down” parts of the Federal government not expand them like Bush did.
He is compassionate, and undoubtedly loves America, was overly generous with taxpayer money and generous with his own. He will defend America, personally if necessary. He has reasonably good tax policy and lots of class.
He is honest and worthy but not tough enough to effectively deal with Marxist DemoRats.
TARP has largely been paid back...the eight years of silence, of never supporting our principles in public, have helped create half a generation of lo fo voters we’ll likely never turn around.
He was the guy who didn't really want the job -- who didn't live, eat, breathe, and sleep political ambition.
Having somebody like that in office sounded like a good idea in 2000, but he went too far in that direction.
A little more political aspiration -- more of a desire to make a difference at home (rather than abroad) -- would have made Bush a better leader.
Regardless of what low opinion anyone may hold of George W. Bush, the idea that Obama would be an improvement was insane. Anyone who thought that even back in 2007 was simply not looking at reality. Obama’s election was surely a case of national mass hysteria.
Like second marriages, elections are often the triumph of hope (and change) over experience.
A lot of people just took it for granted that the new guy had to be better than the old guy. It happens like that more often than we'd like to think.
Bush Derangement Syndrome on full display, not only in this particular thread, but lately, all over FR. What has happened here? You all got what you wanted, the defeat of Mitt Romney...why should any of you be upset?
You don’t even know this is about.
If George is back, that means Jeb is back.
Can you understand now?
I’ll vote for Hillary before I vote fo another Bush.
Bush had the deficit down to around $200B before Pelosi came in.
Much of the stuff that's said about the economy under Bush is lies.
Exactly!
Bush is still with us and he’s speaker of the House.
Boehner is very much a Bush Republican and rose through the House being a loyal to Bush.
He called No Child Left Behind his “greatest achievement” which has basically fallen apart with Obama now granting something like 30 states waivers to it.
This is the kind of idiot we have running the House and it shows.
These guys dont believe in limited government. They believe in expanding it.
It makes me cry.
WTH?
This is about GW Bush, not about J Bush not about Hillary.
As I said, there are some on FR who wanted him to be something he was not.......no run along.
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