Speaking of stage signals....I'll NEVER forget this 'throat cut' one...at the GOP debate with Trump and Yeb!....
I do remember this: when Reagan gave his endorsement of GHW Bush at the convention in 1988, it was lukewarm and tepid. The media picked up on it. Instead of giving his Vice President (for 8 years) a gleaming endorsement in his speech, Reagan gave 2 lines. He read his resume (member of Congress, Ambassdor to UN, CIA Director, VP), and then Reagan said "I'll work just as hard as I can" for him. Then, Nancy came o stage, both with forced smiles, and joined Barbara and GHW. It was so forced, you could hear GHW give stage signals to the Reagans! "OK, everyone, hands up together now! Smile!" I thought at the time that Reagan was just slipping, but perhaps Ronnie knew how wicked that man really was.
Speaking of stage signals....I'll NEVER forget this 'throat cut' one...at the GOP debate with Trump and Yeb!....
At the time it seemed like Reagan didn’t really want GHB to be his running mate, it felt like the RNC or somebody somehow forced Reagan to run with him.
I became a serious adult (conservative) during Carter’s term with Milton Freidman’s PBS series “Free To Choose” along with his subsequent book of the same title solidly welding together what I felt in my gut and how things ought be, and what ought to be surely wasn’t happenin’ in 1979. I was beyond ecstatic that Reagan had written a foreword for that book which came out when Reagan was running for the 1980 contest. If Reagan has taken Freidman’s instructions for his play book, then no question he was getting my vote.
And Reagan faithfully broadcast the Freidman doctrine in that campaign which Bush deemed “voodoo economics”. Right then my fraud radar began screaming.
Never trusted Bush since.
Regan was never quite the same after he was shot. I think he would have accomplished more if not for that attempt.
Journalism professor Nathaniel Blumberg:
— Hinckley’s brother was scheduled to have supper with Bush’s son the day after the assassination attempt, which struck Blumberg as ‘’the most remarkable assassination coincidence in the history of this country.’’
— The friendship between the Hinckley and Bush families goes back more than a decade to their shared conquest of the oilfields of Texas.
‘’So I began looking into it and checking all the papers and right away all sorts of things began cropping up,’’ he said.
The press, according to Blumberg, underreported anything but the official story of the assassination.
I also read that Romney had some sort of involvement, but it’s so long ago, I don’t remember.
Perhaps it was just a disturbed individual, who wanted Bush to be President instead of Reagan. Coincidences do happen don’t they?
> “I do remember this: when Reagan gave his endorsement of GHW Bush at the convention in 1988, it was lukewarm and tepid.”
It is well-documented that Reagan waited until the very last minute at the convention before making his decision. He had not wanted Bush and was very hesitant to choose him but in the end, he chose pragmatism. He knew the establishment hated him, he knew the way to victory was to unite the GOP and unfortunately, that meant making a gesture towards its establishment players.
One thing that is still buried but is documented and confirmed, is that when Reagan was shot about two months into his presidency and nearly died, the shooter John Hinckley Jr. was from a family that was very close to the Bush family. In fact, John Hinckley Sr. was very close to the elder GHW Bush. In fact again, Hinckly Jr.’s brother had been invited to a private dinner with Neil Bush the day after the shooting, on a blind-date dinner where Neil’s wife wanted to introduce the Hinckley brother to her girlfriend.
We never heard that because it was too wild. A well-respected reporter held it back but published it years later. He held it back because he was reporting on a lot of Bush scandals and he thought the Hinckley story would be too much for the public to handle.
I voted for GW Bush and gave his campaign and PACs more money (10,000+) than I had ever given any candidate. He disappointed greatly but I took it in stride. However, when I learned what he let his people do during the financial collapse, that is when I knew GW was detrimental to Americans. In short, he looked the other way on policing the banking sector, and that led to the collapse. He could have stopped it, he had investigators that had the goods on the fraud (for example, against the CEO of Morgan Stanley), but those investigators were told to bury it.
There will always be greed and piracy, but strong law enforcement will keep it in check. When there is no law enforcement, greed wins. Bush let greed win.