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People sometimes marvel at the grace of George H.W. Bush. He is a warm and gracious man, and he's old enough to appreciate the humor in everything. He's old enough to appreciate life. But it is also true that when you attack him or his son from the left he doesn't get mad because in his heart he kinda thinks you're right.

Attack him from the right; you won't be overwhelmed by his bonhomie then.

IOW, GHW Bush has RINO tendencies. Read my lips .. read my hips.
Peggy wrote "read my lips;" GHWB broke the pledge which she wrote into his convention speech, and which he gave - and got elected on. GHWB is responsible for breaking it. GHWB is hardly the hero that Ronald Reagan was. Well, who is - but the way to continue the Reagan legacy which got GHWB elected was not to let Dick Darman negotiate a tax rate increase. And I think Peggy knows that.
GHWB and Barbara (with her cookie baking contest) helped Perot get Clinton in the White House. All very well for the elder Bush family to be able to feel above it all and honorable that they took the high road - but the truth is that they were responsible for helping us get good leadership in the 1992 election - and they failed. Without the tax hike they probably succeed; even with it they had a chance by playing hardball on the skeletons in the Clintons' closet. HW and Barbara functioned as Judas goats to prevent us from understanding the Clintons. Not that it took a genius to see thru them, but the median voter falls a bit short of that.

"Peggy wrote "read my lips;" GHWB broke the pledge which she wrote into his convention speech, and which he gave - and got elected on. GHWB is responsible for breaking it. GHWB is hardly the hero that Ronald Reagan was. Well, who is - but the way to continue the Reagan legacy which got GHWB elected was not to let Dick Darman negotiate a tax rate increase. And I think Peggy knows that.

GHWB and Barbara (with her cookie baking contest) helped Perot get Clinton in the White House. All very well for the elder Bush family to be able to feel above it all and honorable that they took the high road - but the truth is that they were responsible for helping us get good leadership in the 1992 election - and they failed. Without the tax hike they probably succeed; even with it they had a chance by playing hardball on the skeletons in the Clintons' closet. HW and Barbara functioned as Judas goats to prevent us from understanding the Clintons. Not that it took a genius to see thru them, but the median voter falls a bit short of that."

OUCH...very well said!!

Very true. This is why it's kind of too bad the whole article did not get posted; people are only reading snippets instead of context. Let's not forget that George H.W. has never been a particular friend of the right wing of the party, nor he to them. Adding the sentence "Attack him from the right; you won't be overwhelmed by his bonhomie then", is correct, and puts her previous remark in context.

I agree. GHW Bush failed. Failed utterly. And his own words betray the willfulness of the act. He could have stopped the clintons dead but didn't.

The truth of the matter is this: At best, this was a cluelessness borne of patrician sensibilities and misplaced honor; at worst, it was putting aesthetics and personal loyalties above loyalty to country.

The mutual protection racket writ large is alive and well in D.C. Post-9/11, the professional pol is a luxury we can no longer afford.

LEHRER: President Bush, your closing statement, sir.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Three weeks from now--two weeks from tomorrow, America goes to the polls and you're going to have to decide who you want to lead this country ...
On foreign affairs, some think it's irrelevant. I believe it's not. We're living in an interconnected world...And if a crisis comes up, ask who has the judgment and the experience and, yes, the character to make the right decision?
And, lastly, the other night on character Governor Clinton said it's not the character of the president but the character of the presidency. I couldn't disagree more. Horace Greeley said the only thing that endures is character. And I think it was Justice Black who talked about great nations, like great men, must keep their word.
And so the question is, who will safeguard this nation, who will safeguard our people and our children? I need your support, I ask for your support. And may God bless the United States of America.
(Applause)
Hear Bush 41 Warn Us--October 19, 1992
THE CLINTONS--AMERICA'S BIGGEST BLUNDER