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Oh........I think the line itself was seriously flawed.
And I think the man giving it meant it, but didn't have the strength to follow through.
His son does.
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What part was flawed? The "no"?
George Bush Sr. was never a conservative. It was he who used "voodoo economics" against Reagan. He tolerated but had no great love for the social conservatives. He became president because he was a loyal Republican and Reagan's mistake in choosing him as VP.
His "no new taxes" pledge won in 1988. His breaking of that pledge gave is Bill Clinton.
If Peggy Noonan is to be castigated it should be for her "thousand points of light", "kindler gentler America" lines (I believe she wrote both of those lines for the elder Bush).
George W. Bush may intend to cut taxes (and keep those cuts) but his massive expenditures will mean a future president and congress will be under pressure to raise them again. If you mean to cut taxes, you must cut spending. We face not a budget crisis but a spending crisis (helped in no small part by G. W. Bush).
Yep...
A Country Club Republican through and through whose vision was for a "New World Order."
He then ran a sham campaign which he ran to lose to the scandal ridden Bubba Clinton, ensuring Reagan's conservatism's momentum would be stopped dead in it's tracks, thus giving the libs their "turn" to accelerate multiculturalism, subvert the SC, social re engineering, purposeful security breaches, and internationalist One World-ism.
Bush41 read it, but if Peggy wrote it, the stupidity of the line is hers.
Bush41 is a man of honor. He meant it when he said it, but wasn't strong enough to fight back when he was pressured to raise taxes.
It has nothing to do with whether or not he was conservative enough for you. It was still a flawed line, and not one that Peggy should be proud of.