You have Bush. Obama is the natural result of Bush and Rove and their “new tone” and other idiotic things they did. Bush is no real conservative, and his insiders know it. He played us. Well, he played some of us. Some of us were nervous and nauseated from early 2001. We got a bit of a conservative right after 9-11, but that soon faded.
You shouldn’t miss Bush. You still have Bush, in a very real way. Enjoy. I would invite anyone who disagrees to peruse the following:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/05/blame_bush_for_mcclelland.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/11/gop_defeat_and_the_new_tone.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/bushs_legacy_none_of_the_above_1.html
And the New England Patriots are responsible for the New York Giants. And Dale Earnhardt, Jr. is responsible for Tony Stewart. And....
We can't blame anybody but ourselves. We didn't get out there and promote our values enough. We stayed in our little holes. We expected someone to be 'from the government here to help' for our issues too. Obama is the result of votes, and those come from people, people we failed to convince.
I believe that Bush is a good person, but you are right about Obama being the natural result of Bush.
Many people had Bush fatigue. The lib's were tired of the two expensive and seemingly endless wars started under Bush. Conservatives were dispirited by the squishy "compassionate conservatism."
Of course, there were other reasons Obama won (MSM duplicity, etc), but Bush fatigue played a big part.
Notice that there was no Reagan fatigue after he left office. The elder Bush won the next election.
Bush's spending was criminal. A 'Big Government' conservative.
They never had a 'fact check' moment on the dims. Just use it on repubs.
The MSM controls what the masses hear and they have an agenda.
I wasn't enamored with Bush primarily his refusal to fight for his agenda.
He had good ideas concerning SS, Fanny Mae overhauls but allowed the libs and MSM demagogue them . Had he gone to the people as Reagan did he may have been able to salvage them.