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RE :”where were Bush's Party compadres? The vast majority of them, from elected officials to pundits at National Review to posters at places like FR, all found it easier to put all blame on Bush than to stand up for what is right.”

Like the investor and GM/UAW bailouts? Did democrats force him to do those too? So we blame everything GWB did big gov, wall street, socialist, on democrats. That makes GWB our greatest president ever I guess. Massive spending on the nation's credit card is cowardly and it set a precident for what democrats plan this year. In fact using his logic, republicans should give their full support to democrats now and blame them later.

In fact using his logic, republicans should give their full support to democrats now and blame them later.
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I don't understand how people think Bush was so great. To his credit, he did do some things right...mainly his court appointments and actually vetoed a couple of pieces of bad legislation, typical of the rotten DIMS and RINOS. And he does earn a star for defense and slapping the scumbag Arabs in Iraq which the Arab world needed after 9/11.

Other than that, it was a weak presidency. Virtually NO CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP for the party, not even a token effort, and the RINOs just ran wild pandering to the rotten DIMS as he did on many occassions. To a large degree, this passive role helped the DIMS, and for us, ended in the disastrous and weak McCain campaign which cost America far more than most have yet to realize. The Repubs have basically fallen apart and are no longer a conservative check and balance against the rising tide of radical criminals and socialists taking over Washington. Until we again see the rise of true conservatives in Washington, that care about AMERICA FIRST, will we see this mess we are in get fixed. We are in for a period of mob rule, over the rule of law, in Washington and the people are going to have to fight for their given rights.

Yo sickoflibs—You get it! It amazes me how some freepers are trying to make a saint out of Bush. I voted for him twice—to keep dem out of WH. Big mistake. I should have drawn a line in the sand the first time he ran. Even if Gore won, I think he would have been a lot less virulent than The Marxist Onada. And it might have provided the stimulus for conservatives to take the GOP back from the RINOs.

Now the RINO led GOP is firmly in the demrat camp. A new opposition party must be created—and quickly.

This next four to eight years will be a rough ride pardner.

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Please ping me when you have a rational thought which results in a salient post, that will require logical thought instead of the pathological thinking you seem so comfortable with.

I don't think you understand. Bush was not the problem, it is the Democrats. The things Bush did when he stood up to the Democrats(tax cuts, opposed Kyoto treaty, Supreme court nominees, the war on terror, ending Libya's chemical warfare program,etc.) were great. It was when Bush tried to be a consensus builder and work with the Democrats(illegal immigration, no child left behind, massive and wasteful government spending, trying to increase minority home ownership through lowering standards for mortgages, etc.) that Bush was a disaster. Bush was a someone who wanted to work with the Democrats and not be confrontational. That was where he screwed up.

Several years ago in George’s first term, Karl wrote him a memo stating, and I am putting down the general idea of the memo, that George could feel free to do whatever he wanted because Republicans were always going to vote Republican.

For many years, I have been kicking myself for not keeping a copy of that memo. Does anybody out there have a copy of it? We need to look at it again to see how flawed their thinking was.

Karl Rove was/is an idiot with a huge ego, and George was/is an idiot for depending on someone’s flawed thinking.

During the day of the 2006 elections, from what I read at the time, Karl was stunned to see Republicans were giving their votes to Democrats. It caused him to go to bed late that night thinking it could not be true. He was in denile (and not a river).

Thank you.

P.S.

I read that memo here on FR.

Could the Mods find it for us?

Thank you.

does the president instruct the fed what to do?

bush carried over greenspan. did bush instruct him to create the balloon?

bush and republicans were criticizing fanny and freddy, but maxine, barney, chris, et al were threatening the r-word.