Posted on 03/30/2014 6:22:29 PM PDT by Hojczyk
For breaking his "no new taxes" campaign pledge and raising taxes before the 1992 presidential election, former President George H. W. Bush was named a recipient of this year’s John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation honored Bush for the "courage he demonstrated as President when he agreed to a 1990 budget compromise which reversed his 1988 campaign pledge not to raise taxes and put his re-election prospects at risk." Paul W. Bridges, a former mayor of Uvalda, Georgia, will also receive a Profile in Courage Award for opposing stricter immigration laws in Georgia.
Reagan conservatives never trusted George H.W. Bush even though he won the 1988 election by running for Ronald Reagan's third term, and Bush's betrayal on taxes confirmed that he felt more comfortable with the more moderate policies favored by the bipartisan establishment in the media and permanent political class. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum will present the awards in Boston on May 4, 2014.
Al Hunt, the longtime Washington journalist and columnist for Bloomberg View, chairs the fifteen-member Profile in Courage Award Committee which also includes former Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-CT); liberal Rep. Donna F. Edwards (D-MD); Adam Frankel, a former speechwriter to President Barack Obama; pro-amnesty Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC); John Seigenthaler, an anchor at Al Jazeera America; and former liberal Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME), a figure held in disdain by the conservative grassroots.
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I can't imagine...
‘The democrats vilified his “Read My Lips” to an electoral victory in 1992.’
So true. The Democrats deserve the “Profiles in Scourge” award for
that bit of political nastiness. If GHW Bush was a hero for reversing
his tax pledge then what would that make the tax loving ‘Rats
who called him a liar when campaign season came along?
And, BTW, wasn’t JFK, the namesake of the award, the same
POTUS who sang the virtues of and signed a bill lowering taxes
in the early 1960s?
Will his adopted son Billy Jeff present it to him?
This world is so upside down, it’s a sick joke.
The award is really for handing the White House to Clinton.
Reagan had to take Bush as VP to get eastern moneymen to not scuttle Reagan. I have never looked on the Bush’s to be a defender of our Constitution for the ordinary USA citizen. The family has stronger ties to European and Arabic and South of the border people than on the ordinary USA Joes.
Freakin’ nutcases.
Bush’s mistake was believing George Mitchell who promised big spending cut for a tax increase. Mitchell lied of course and there went Bush’s presidency
Don't forget Darman's role in that fiasco.
Lying politician rewarded by lying politicians. Shocking
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