Posted on 05/02/2009 4:16:14 PM PDT by Graybeard58
Ping to a Republican-American Editorial.
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Surprise my foot. It was supposed to be another ‘surprise’ with Harriet Myers too.
Anyone who thinks that liberal Souter would have retired during Bush’s presidency is an idiot.
But was Souter a mistake for Bush?
No more utopian RINOs. We have certainly had enough of one-world, border-busting, utopian elitists. We need another Reagan who cares more about his country than himself.
God, what a fine man we lost when Ronaldus Magnus left us.
He would not even enter the Oval Office without his coat on, he had so much respect for the Office and love for his Constitutional Republic. I pray every day for another one before I die.....
“But as mistakes go, the first President Bush’s appointment of “the surprise liberal,” “
A liberal appointed a liberal. Big surprise.
Is it possible the press held President Bush to a higher standard? Forinstance, if President Obama had said he would end the war when he got into office and ... he DIDN'T - would the press endlessly remind him? "Gotcha" is only played with Republicans.
I’ve been a big critic of Harvard/Yale Republicans. Not only for their liberal Republicanism, but for being political doormats.
HW, and GW never got the fact that Dukakis and Gore were their( the Bush’s) best attraction.
When citizens were offered Perot, Republicans left HW and Clinton squeaked in.
Yes, but we have an entire generation of voters who were babies when Reagan was President and not even born when Carter made such a mess of things... ergo while those of us who remember revere Reagan when we speak of him to the new generation their eyes glaze over. We need to appreciate what we had with Reagan, but let him RIP and pray someone comes forward to excite this new generation the same way Reagan excited ours.
Unlike Reagan, HW didn’t want a fight. Heck, Margret Thatcher had to tell him to buck up. Then he called off killing off Saddam’s elite Republican Guard, and sold out the Kurds.
GW Bush never fired anyone. So long as you pressed your Chinos, you could hang around the WH for ever.
Too elite, too Episcopal, too nice.
Reminds me of Colin Powell!
One small silver lining to the present carnage is that it is exposing some particularly villainous scum. Loaded with people like that the party is not a big tent, it is a snake pit.
Hey I was born in ‘80 and I love Ronald Reagan, not all of us in the younger generations are non-thinking ‘nuts’!
Souter was Warren Rudman’s man. And Rudman was no more a conservative Republican than Earl Warren.
Let's not leave Jean Francois Kerry out of the mix.
There's a New York Times editorial today called, "A Spotty Response to the Flu Threat."
Subtitle: "The Republicans were wrong to eliminate $870 million for pandemic flu preparedness from the stimulus package."
It's always "Gotcha," even when the House, Senate and White House control all legislation, with or without Republican input.
I love The Gipper as much as anyone, but the biggest mistake he made, he didn’t make many but this one was a doozy, was to name Bush as his Veep. Had he not Bush would have faded into the sunset and GW might still be running the Rangers, or maybe Dallas’ MLS soccer club.
“Is it possible the press held President Bush to a higher standard?”
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That is exactly what happened.
Same as it ever was.
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