[DesertRhino]

“Moreover, how well has our leadership (including the pundits) served the Conservative movement over the last, say, 15 years?”

Go back to 88. Bush the first gave you an assault rifle ban, Ruby Ridge, the preparations for the Waco raid. With the exception of a shining moment with Newt, its easily over 25 years they have been doing nothing more than screwing us.

[Soul of the South]

“Go back to 88. Bush the first gave you an assault rifle ban, Ruby Ridge, the preparations for the Waco raid.”

Don’t forget the “no new taxes” tax increase, purging the Reaganites from his administration, bailout of the savings & loan industry ($132 billion taxpayer bailout) including his son’s Neil’s Silvarado S&L for $1.6 billion, failure to enforce the border, hiring the US military out to the Saudi’s and Kuwaiti’s, David Souter on the Supreme Court, developing and negotiating NAFTA, and huge deficit spending.

[Mark was here]

The most unforgivable sin of Bush Sr. was the second trial of the cops in the Rodney King ordeal. Simply a violation of our protection from double jeopardy. If the Framers of the Constitution knew every crime would be defined multiple ways, they would not have wasted their time prohibiting double jeopardy. Bush showed contempt for the Constitution and that's how I feel about him.