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To: Texasforever
GWB is equally strong on all of them and in a few ways even stronger.

No, he wasn't. He articulated no "vision thing", for openers, and consistently gave everyone the impression that his strongest value was that the Presidency and the leadership of public affairs should be left to People Like Us. He was a snob where Reagan was a middle-class working stiff, so he famously didn't connect with the Reagan Democrats he needed to reach in order to be reelected.

In foreign affairs, Reagan bombed a part in Khaddafi's hair with just Maggie Thatcher for support: Bush wouldn't move in Kuwait until the Omanis, the Syrians, and (God help us!) the French were on board, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali had given his benediction to an exercise in American foreign policy! That's "strong"?

In domestic policy, Bush signed a huge tax increase in 1990 that cost him the White House, after articulating a promise to the People on tax policy: "Read my lips!" Reagan compromised (concrete, feet, etc. etc.), but he never totally reneged a fundamental promise like that.

Your turn.

443 posted on 02/01/2004 2:28:35 AM PST by lentulusgracchus (Et praeterea caeterum censeo, delenda est Carthago. -- M. Porcius Cato)
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To: lentulusgracchus
I am talking about George W. Bush. Try to keep up.
445 posted on 02/01/2004 2:30:01 AM PST by Texasforever
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