Posted on 11/05/2008 6:46:24 AM PST by 82ndABNOfficer
Sorry, but aside from tax cuts, the courts and defense, Bush was the most liberal president in recent history. Bush may be a good man, but he destroyed the GOP, and especially the “conservative,” brand.
No we did ourselves in by not including him and his team for the election.
No offense, but I didn’t turn my back on President Bush...however, President Bush did turn HIS back on conservatives and conservative values....What conservative value did he represent by nominating Harriet Miers to the highest court in the land??? What conservative value was espoused in his support of open borders and amnesty? His incredible inability to veto the out of control spending was astounding.
Sorry, but this is what happens when the GOP turns its back on CONSERVATIVES.
Bush was way ahead of us on that one with his pharmaceutical drug giveaway and the freakin' bailout.
Gee...is that all? What a pinko...
You have to excerpt yourself on Freerepublic now? This truly is Bizzaroworld.
Anyway, being a conservative, I was the one thrown under the bus by the Republican party a long time ago.
Would I have prefered McCain to Obama? Yes. Will I be the fall guy for McCain’s loss? Not a chance.
>>>>the “conservative,” brand.<<<<<
Please don’t use that term.
Conservatism isn’t a “brand”, it’s an idea and philosophy.
And one that has been completely trashed by the political “elite” including Bush, McCain, and many many others.
You just said two diametrically opposing things. Bush was the so-called compassionate conservative, and he was the one always reaching out. Him and McCain were always the worst with regards to that.
Bush turned his back on the GOP base. We are a republic still. Power is inherent in the people, and is delegated to leaders, not the other way around. We owe no politician anything.
Sorry, but aside from tax cuts, the courts and defense, Bush was the most liberal president in recent history. Bush may be a good man, but he destroyed the GOP, and especially the “conservative,” brand.
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Agreed, and he provided NO LEADERSHIP OR FIGHT when we needed it badly. He took every bit of crap the MSM and commie libs threw at him (and us) without a fight. And with that, include his LOVE FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS and the total deliberate neglect of our borders for his Mexican friends. Yes, he did a few things right -— but when it came to standing and fighting for THE AMERICAN CITIZEN and the interests of same, he failed miserably. He simply was not a fighter that failed the conservative base.
That is his legacy.
And McCain should have stuck up for Bush on each of those. Bush's tax cuts were not for the rich, but were across the board and completely eliminated federal income taxes for tens of millions of our lowest income earners. But NO ONE every heard about that from the McCain camp.
Excuse me but he threw us under the bus. Instead of sealing the borders and arming the pilots immediately after 9/11 he creates an agency that violates our constitution a few million times a day, namely the TSA. Have you realized yet that more of our freedoms have been removed during his administration than any other? IRAQ was to make up for Daddy not completing the Job but he couldn’t admit that. Saddam is gone but Osama???? How often do you even hear what is going on in the MAIN war??? The terrorist that attacked us to start the war on terror is still alive and on the loose.
Respectfully,
Ravenstar
he turned his back on conservatism but claimed that it was conservative. That hurt real conservatives!
President Bush will be forever linked to BO.
Hoover to FDR.
Bush to Obama.
LOL! No... if conservatives were the power we claim to be, there'd be no way the GOP could have "turned its back" on us.
The problem is that "conservatives" became lazy sloganeers and simply assumed that everybody agrees with us on everything, and we dismissed everybody who wasn't 100% on-board with us as RINOs.
We conservatives are responsible for our own losses. We have got some serious work to do cleaning up our own messes before we go off blaming other folks.
Bingo!
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