The Bushes are not conservatives. They are country club RINOS who are able to sometimes masquerade as conservatives.
If it wasn’t for Reagan, Bush 41 and 43 would be unknowns.
Can’t think of anything good to say about Bush, so i won’t say anything...
The Bush family needs to admit that there’s not a conservative bone in any of their bodies. They’re the epitome of the wishy-washy RINOS in the squishy middle trying to be appeasers and they don’t even realize that there’s nothing in the world that’ll make the Left stop vilifying them.
Reagan was more of a man than all of the Bush males put together. I met W’s nephew one time at an event and he seemed like an empty suit being groomed for a life in politics. Nothing real about him at all. No core.
Reagan had a core. Reagan had beliefs and principles. Voting for him in 1984 was my proudest moment ever in electoral politics.
Pres. Reagan knew 30 years ago what the Bush zombies just recently figured out...
Are you going to post the video? Or are we just supposed to take your word for it that the interview went off exactly as you said.
I didn’t see it, but find it hard to believe any sane person wouldn’t acknowledge it. Maybe Bush41 thought it was obvious? Reagan was the reason the Berlin Wall fell.
Remember Bush accusing Reagan of "voodoo economics"?
Fun fact: In the 1960's George H. W. Bush introduced the first bill in the House to federally fund abortion. He, along with his good buddy Democrat Walter Mondale, used to push for what they referred to as "therapeutic population control".
I like Pres. Bush, Sr., but I about gagged when he picked Gorbachev and missed Reagan. He always was too affectionate towards the old commie and never liked to talk about the Reagan years. He famously complained that his job was attending funerals, and Reagan did basically shelve him, for good or for ill. I’ve always wondered if this created some resentment.
Did he manage to find a way to give Bill Clinton credit for the fall of the Berlin Wall? It wouldn’t surprise me.
He used to talk about the New World Order a lot. Did he mention it in this interview?
I think he has more in common with Obama than he does with Reagan.
“Gave lots of credit to others, but there was a stark omission of Reagan.”
Initially I was bothered by this.
I have to admit my personal expectation was to hear him give praise,
honor and glory to the triumvirate:
Reagan, Thatcher, and John Paul II.
But reflecting on the interview...it did seem to be more about the
“end game” and how the actors on the scene at that time didn’t
“screw up” the terrain as prepared by Reagan, Thatcher and JP II.
But I must admit as a person that is old enough to remember the
building of “The Wall”...and young enough to be around for the fall
of The Berlin Wall...
I was at first bothered not to hear a mention of Reagan.
Call me too kind, but I chalk it up to the format and actual questions
of the interview...plus Papa Bush did enough heavy lifting to keep
us out of nuclear war at a crucial juncture.
(and yes, I don’t agree with all of Papa Bush’s actions, especially
folding on the “no new taxes” pledge and some other mis-steps)
Blue-bloods are usually bad for America.
Reagan was forced to take him.