[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Good, the Republican party, the REAL Republican party hasn't existed since 1989 when Reagan left office. Since then all we've gotten is Mr. Read my lips no new taxes and his boy Georgie No Border Bush, and now they want someone even more leftist: Jeb. The Bush clan have decimated the Republican party, NO MORE.

Look at this crap, posing like they're the head of two royal families.

[LS]

W had some very, very admirable qualities. If he had left office in 2004 for some odd reason, he would have gone down in the top tier of US presidents. He had liberal tendencies at times, but his main fault was that he---like ALL of the GOP field except Trump and, to an extent, Cruz---refused to fight libs. Karl Rove said in his book it was the biggest mistake they ever made and I agree. It gave the Dems eight full years of attacking.

Among Bush's good points were that he was the ONLY Republican (including Reagan) to even attempt to reform Social Security by privatizing it;

The pro-life movement gained dramatically under W. He shut down abortions on fed facilities permitted by Clinton and closed as many loopholes as he could at the fed level;

He made, in my view, the absolute right call on invading Iraq. Even IF (and I don't buy it, but if) there were no WMDs there, it was still the right call becaue it was up to Saddam to PROVE there were no WMDs there;

After 2005, he got the Iraq war straightened out. Maybe too long, but Ike's first combat ops in N. Africa sucked too. Lincoln didn't do so well with McDowell and McClellan.

We all know the things he did wrong, bailouts, going along with Paulsen and Bernanke, the Roberts appointment (but Alito has been a gem), his handling of Katrina.

I like W. If I could assess his whole presidency and then decide whether to vote for him, I wouldn't. But based on his first four years, absolutely.

[PghBaldy]

Reagan was the outlier. The GOP really was never always conservative otherwise, except maybe Goldwater & Nixon (in comparison).

[Cats Pajamas]

Hey Yoda wanna see something really weird?