In before the anti-Bush postings.
He and his dad are cursed with terminal naivete regarding the intentions and capabilities of their enemies - foreign and domestic.
No more Bushes.
W wasn’t all that bad, but he was no Conservative. He had a lot to deal with — the tech bubble, 9/11, two wars and the rise of a virulent Left (Pelosi, etc.). I wish it had all gone better, but looking at what we have today, I do miss him.
The next Republican Pres candidate will be one who is willing to defend himself. After Bush that is a key trait everyone should be looking for.
“No need to defend myself.”
And that is one of the reasons why, after 8 years of not responding to attacks from the left, that we got that piece of cr@p zero as potus.
Interesting take for him it was he was not important, the job was.
The current occupant it’s all aobut him, the job is not important.
Insane, that we would consider another Bush. Every woman in the family has now come out solidly in favor of Obamacare, and most of Obama’s positions. They dislike TEA and Sarah intensely. W and his crew tried as hard as they could to give us GOPe Senator Dewhurst instead of Senator Cruz.
And we also mustn’t forget to thank him for creating the TSA, and the growing menace called “Homeland Security”. The Agency with the manpower of the USMC, twice it’s budget, and a creepy nazi sounding name.
Facing facts, he was no friend of the constitution despite his “aw shucks” persona.
He may not defend himself — But he was man enough to defend one of secret service agents in Chile...Remember this;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX3aaWlUmpc
There is “NO WAY” odumbo would have ever been able to sprout the testicular fortitude to do what “W” did. I miss have any American Patriot in the white house.
What an ass. His failure to defend himself during his administration left the playing field for the left, and thu ran with it.
Not to engage in politics itself is a political decision, and his humility is actually disguised arrogance. By not defending his policies he is leaving the field to his opponents. This is justifiable only if he believes that the policy decisions he took are about George Bush the man, and unimportant to the future of the nation. If he believes that we are in the wrong path, then he is doing immense damage to our nation by remaining silent.
On another thread I read about Calvin Coolidge and how he was the last successful conservative Republican until Ronald Reagan. Well, okay, but if he abandoned his job after a single term and left the Presidency to big government progressive Herbert Hoover, who in turn was demonized by Franklin Roosevelt, then what did he accomplish by leading us into battle and abandoning his post?
Without George Bush’s refusal to defend policies that are good for the nation we got Barack Obama. Now Bush washes his hands of any responsibility for the takedown of our nation. Disgraceful.
Oh yes there is!
I continue to wish him well...and am very grateful that he was President during and after 9/11.
I hope it visit his library someday.
He didn’t go to Maggie’s funeral. That tells me what he really believes.
I admire president bush and his service. I think his critics are jaded and ill informed.
Not an ounce of “street fighter” in any Bush.
Let us praise the Bushes: Dukakis, Gore and Kerry would have been worse.
i think he is right... and it is biblical... Obama defends himself all the time and comes across as a thin-skinned whiner...
2) By not defending yourself... you left those of us that stood by you in your/our darkest hours... you left us hanging in the wind. By not defending yourself and your administration... you... by proxy... did not defend us.
3) You created the America that we are dealing with today. You and the gop so pissed Americans off... so angered those in the center... the low information voters... and some on the right that they either gave up and/or refused to vote or switched to the dim party and were lost to obama. karl rove was the architect.
4) Your father was a progressive failure and you were a progressive president and your family is progressive and your father started the “New World Order" crap... he brought it into mainstream American politics.
5) NO MORE BUSHES... your family has already damaged America enough... no clintons... kennedys or Bushes ever again. PS... your brother jeb sucks worse than you and your dad... he is nothing more than an open borders... “new world order” drone.
LLS
That's part of the problem. It lead to this asshole we have there now.
History has judged. He went into Iraq without a plan for what would come afterwards. He thought that merely removing at tyrant would lead to stable free government.
I defended him at the time, not knowing that they had no plan. History revealed that they had no plan.
That was monumentally stupid.