I was there, too. I also remember the story about Bush having a mistress on the side; weird how that meme was lost in the memory hole but this scanner meme hasn’t died.
(Funny with Stephanopolis in the news right now how important he was to the ‘92 election.)
Bush was simply not conservative enough — after he failed to “finish the war” by deferring to the UN on Saddam; after he made such stupid speeches hailing the NWO/UN — for him to live out the promise of “Reagan’s Fourth Term”.
He only won in ‘88 because we wanted Reagan for another four years.
When I first heard it, I believed it too. (About the scanner.) It sounded exactly like Bush. He really did seem out of touch. He seemed utterly clueless about what was going on in the world around him, especially the world of politics. And yeah, I remember that mistress accusation too. I had forgotten about it till you mentioned it.
He only won in ‘88 because we wanted Reagan for another four years.
And that is God's only truth. In 1992, I was so sick of the betrayal and backstabbing by HW, *I* wanted to vote for the Democrat just to put an end to Bush's presidency. But then the Democrats out did themselves in their level of sleazebaggery with Bill Clinton, and I ended up campaigning for George HW.
I'll never forgive him for putting me in the position where I felt the need to campaign for his lousy Presidency, and then ended up losing it anyways.