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What has President Bush done to her for her to be so "scorned"?
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"When George Bush 41 followed him to the podium, he teased Mr. Lowery in a way that complimented his eloquence. 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."

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."

Peggy, has Bush actually told you this? I'm beginning to think that Noonan is upset that the Bush Admin hasn't called her and begged to help get their message out, and she's getting in an ever-tighter twist over it.

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.

That's the part that jumped out at me.

I cannot believe that anybody can read this diatribe and continue to defend her on this forum.

The old lions of the great American civil rights movement of the 20th century were there, and standing tall. The old lionesses, too. There was preaching and speechifying and at the end I thought: This is how democracy ought to be, ought to look every day--full of the joy of argument, and marked by the moral certainty that here you can say what you think.

I can almost SEE her drooling.