[2ndDivisionVet]

Reagan ran with a Bush. I assume you still voted for him, right?

[grania]

Reagan ran with a Bush

And it's regarded by many as his worst mistake. And now Neil Bush is on Cruz's campaign staff, which is affirmation that Cruz never left his Bush ties behind him. We should stay out of the Bushes. We'll be much better off when they slither away to some enclave, far away.

[Guenevere]

Yes, and that’s because we didn’t know what we know now.....

.....and Reagan might have had doubts....or stronger.....but didn’t have the political chutspah, rest his soul, to just say NO

We know......I say, we KNOW Trump has the chutspah to not be talked into anything just for the sake of.

Bush 1 didn’t honor Reagan......he squandered away much we had gained, or at least got the ball rolling in the wrong direction......

.....making way for his good buddy Bill AND Hill.....
......then dynasty George
.......and to our further downfall Obama

[60Gunner]

"Reagan ran with a Bush. I assume you still voted for him, right?"

That may be so, but we knew a helluva lot less about the Bush agenda then than we do now, after having experienced the globalist liberalism of two separate Bush administrations. So I respectfully state that your rationale does not follow.

[Jane Long]

Reagan ran with a Bush. I assume you still voted for him, right?

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By push of the elitists, not by preference.

cRuz has chosen to partner (again) with team Bush.

[Madame Dufarge]

Interesting article written by Richard V. Allen (President Reagan's first national security advisor) on how Bush was chosen at the 11th hour after negotiations with Ford, who had insisted on a power-sharing arrangement with Reagan, fell through.

Glad the subject arose here, since I was curious myself and just too lazy to research it before.

There are many plausible versions of how and why Reagan chose George Bush as his running mate, but most are wide of the mark. One conventional view is that Reagan, about to be nominated, recognized that he ''needed a moderate'' like Bush to balance the ticket; another version has it that Reagan, supposedly unschooled in foreign affairs, saw the wisdom of naming someone with extensive experience in the field to offset his own shortcomings. Yet another explanation holds that Reagan, a Californian, needed ''geographic balance'' and got that in Bush, with his Connecticut and Texas lineage.

These explanations are wrong. George Bush was picked at the very last moment and largely by a combination of chance and some behind-the-scenes maneuvering. Many Reagan advisers have claimed a deal was never close. The post-convention media commentary has largely reflected this view. In fact, Meese and Deaver have gone so far as to declare that Bush was their first choice all along. I take exception to their account. I saw a very different story unfold, and saw it from a privileged vantage point. From the moment I walked into that suite until the moment Bush was finally selected, I was the only person to remain in Reagan's presence throughout the adventure. With detailed notes to back up my memory, this is what I saw at the dawn of the Reagan Revolution on that long night in Detroit.

George Herbert Walker Bush - The Accidental Vice-President