[AnAmericanMother]

EXACTLY my point. As I noted a few posts back, "Campaign promises aren't worth much if they haven't been backed up by consistent actions that support the promise."

Actually, they're not worth a pitcher of warm spit, to mis-quote John Nance Gardner.

[wagglebee]

Back in 1980, GHWB was running around calling Reagan’s proposed tax cuts “Voodoo Economics.” Then he spent eight years as VP going along with Reaganomics and presumably seeing how well it worked.

So, when he said, “Read my lips: No new taxes,” a lot of us thought that he had learned from Reagan and that we could trust him. But as soon as he got the job, he reverted back to his liberal ways and gave us a tax cut.

I’m not getting burned like that again. In 1988 I had a fair amount of trust for Bush, but I don’t trust Rooty one damn bit!