I don’t defend Bush either. He was terribly disappointing.
And the Repub party is full of RINOs it has steadily been moving to the left for at least the last 20 years (since I got involved in politics).
I'm sure all the candidates from the Third parties will be pure and never compromise in Washington's political firing range. Oh, wait...we'll never know because no Third party candidate has ever been elected and won't be in the foreseeable future. Oh, well, all the better to trash Republicans.