George Bush’s great strength was the Democrat party. His conservative base was always shallow because he had never demonstrated a dedication to conservative principals. ties.
As it was, he barely beat Gore. He has been a continuing disappointment to conservatives.
He has done nothing about reducing the size of government or the welfare state. His spending, the highest in history, pleases liberals. His political leadership has been weak leading to his party’s loss of Congress.
President Bush is continually on the defensive seeming to be unable to fight back against his opposition. He has vetoed almost nothing.
Above all, his refusal to repel the invasion of illegal aliens from across the Mexican border will probably be both the downfall of his party and his legacy.
His plus points are the economy and the war on terrorism.
Democrats got us into Vietnam. Republicans got us into Iraq. I hope it won’t take a decade of defeat to get us out of Iraq as it did in Vietnam.
“George Bush’s great strength was the Democrat party. “
A very good point. In both elections he faced very poor opponents from a very disorganized party with a vocal wing of moonbats whose message turned off 85% of Americans. And yet he barely won both elections. Rove should not be considered a genius for beating those two dolts. I said in 2004 that he should be questioned because of how close Bush came to losing.
“His plus points are the economy”
So they say, but where I live, wages are low and sinking, and prices are high and rising. The govt is reporting record low unemployment, but I haven’t been able to get one single interview (for a serious job) in more than a year.
People are working for 8 and 9 dollars an hour (well below the poverty line for a family with children), and barely scraping by. Every major employer has shipped or is shipping jobs overseas, and the jobs that are left don’t pay enough to live.