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Poppy Bush lost that election all on his own. He let Bill Clinton run to the right of him and it worked for Clinton. Bill Clinton ran right of Dole and won. Why? Because Dole had two GOP-E Liberals running the convention. His next career was selling Viagra. How fitting for a man who wanted to be POTUS /sarcasm

A scandal ridden Gore ran pretty much as GW Bush and had he not been Clinton linked would have likely won. Bush even said he and Gore weren't far apart on most issues. Bush vs Kerry was another close one. A conservative would have had a landslide. It was instead old political family oligarchies Liberal vs Liberal. Bush tried to be the DEMs best friend as the LBJ2 POTUS. McCain? He simply handed the office to Obama. George McGovern campaigned more & tried harder against Nixon and Carter tried harder against Reagan than McCain did against Obama. Romney? Record on key issues showed he was just another DEM in a GOP-E COC suit.

Reagan won two wide margin victories because he was who he said he was going to be. The GOP-E didn't own him and he didn't tell Conservatives to get lost but show up to vote like the ones in the GOP who followed him did.

Yea Perot could have possibly won but not if Poppy had remained true to the Reagan Doctrines. But many already knew Bush disliked Reagan Policies. George Herbert Walker Bush was the one who cost George Herbert Walker Bush a second term and no one else. He didn't deserve to win. He shouldn't have even made it through the primaries in 1992. He was a GOP-E COC placeholder. You do remember their family ties to COC don't you?

Poppy Bush lost that election all on his own. He let Bill Clinton run to the right of him and it worked for Clinton.

Sort of. Bush was in a bad position to begin with because of his abandoned no-new-taxes pledge and the Buchannan insurgency.

However the last week and a half before the election he was surging and had momentum pointing to victory.

But the Friday before the election Lawrence Walsh dropped those Iran-Contra indictments in what was probably the worst political dirty tricks move since Nixon, and more likely LBJ and the Kennedys. Bush's trending reversed over the weekend, and he didn't have time to recover.

I still hope that Walsh is enjoying a rather toasty afterlife for that one.