.....and he certainly wouldn't speak against the Obama's who are equally so.
Posted on 10/17/2019 7:48:39 AM PDT by sickoflibs
George W. Bush’s presidency is an interesting period to reflect back on. By a certain sect of Republicans, Bush is held up as a good man that did the best he could in a difficult time. There’s some truth to that characterization in so far as the challenges after 9/11 were real.
As time has passed though, Republicans at large have taken a more critical eye at his myriad of missteps, not just on foreign policy (of which the ramifications we are still suffering today), but also in his inability to accomplish much of anything for the conservative cause in his eight years. When one thinks of his “signature” achievements, the mind is more likely to go to his expansion of Medicare than any conservative victory. Is John Roberts as the new swing vote on the Supreme Court really a decisive win at this point?
But perhaps the thing that bothered some Republicans the most was all the wasted political capital. For eight long years, Republicans rallied around Bush and his failures, supporting him even when he wouldn’t speak out to support himself. He was given the benefit of the doubt even when he probably didn’t deserve it. In the end, he left the party in shambles, ushering in the era of Barack Obama.
Despite all the capital expended on his behalf, Bush couldn’t be bothered to return the favor. He spent most of his post-presidency palling around with Bill Clinton and painting pictures. He refused to speak out even as the Middle East and North Africa burned the ground. This left some Republicans disillusioned. Where was the reciprocity for all those years of support?
Apparently, Bush has found his tongue again though, because he’s speaking out against Trump’s pull out of Syria in a comment that can only be described as face palm worthy.
Josh Rogin ✔ @joshrogin · 15h President George W. Bush tonight at the Nir School of the Heart event: “I don’t think the Iranians believe a peaceful Middle East is in their national interest.”
Josh Rogin ✔ @joshrogin George W Bush takes a direct shot at Trump: “An isolationist United States is destabilizing around the world. We are becoming isolationist and that’s dangerous for the sake of peace.”
2,896 7:26 PM - Oct 16, 2019 1,617 people are talking about this After nearly a decade of refusing to say a cross word about Obama’s policies, the moment Trump steps out of line and becomes too “isolationist,” he’s ready to talk again. It’s this kind of thing that produces so much of the angst from mainline Republicans toward the establishment figures in their party.
We’ve seen this same thing with Mitt Romney. When Republicans needed voices to speak against Obama, Romney was nowhere to be found. When it’s Trump and it may benefit him personally, he’s ready to talk again though. It’s opportunism at its worst and it makes Republicans feel like their own leaders don’t have their back. In short, it’s how you got Trump.
The easiest thing in the world to do right now is criticize Donald Trump. There’s no bravery in that. It’d have been much more impressive had they been willing to withstand the onslaught that would come by criticizing Obama when Republicans needed their voices.
Further, the topic in question is something Bush should sit out for the rest of his life. His track record on the Middle East simply does not lend him the credibly to speak on the issue any longer. It’d be like Donald Trump criticizing someone for having an affair. It just doesn’t make sense.
I’ll end by nothing that when the Obama administration propagated a civil war that led to 500,000 dead people, Bush didn’t speak up. When Ben Rhodes helped orchestrate the disastrous Arab Spring, Bush had nothing to say. When ISIS formed in the rubble of it all, Bush had more pictures to paint. But now, all of the sudden, he finds his voice to go after a fellow Republicans president? Really odd how that works.
And you have to check his page. Twitter suppresses his tweets. I’m following Trump, and I signed up for notifications. Yet I hear about tweets on the news that I never see. I haven’t received a tweet from him and several days. But I opened his page, and there they are. Twitter suppresses him
Trump revealed what he already was. (Stands on tippy ties, please clap, opens his mouth with nothing to say, thoroughly PC, deep state to the max, etc.)
Trump also revealed the NWO Bush clan for what they are.
.....and he certainly wouldn't speak against the Obama's who are equally so.
.....and he certainly wouldn't speak against the Obama's who are equally so.
How about you and Rumsfeld look in the mirror
Pray tell besides Reagan when has the Republican Party been all that?
Jorge W. Busho should send his airhead daughters to Syria.
Let them fight for the Maoist Syrian Kurds.
Thanks Bill.....i hope Ohio is getting this beautiful high pressure cell clear weather too
Beautiful in middle Tan
On the ideological front, things really are coming to a head. Let us pray for a wakeup among our seriously misled fellow countrymen. The greater the deviation from commonsense, the greater the opportunity to reshuffle the deck.
But we have to find ways to focus attention on what is easily verifiable--such as the importance of the vast variations in human aptitudes & motivations, being deliberately misconstrued by those benefiting from the distracted public, in bubbles with their cell phones,
He thought Iraq was Iran.
That’s excellent; thank you.
FUGWB
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