Posted on 09/16/2009 12:10:22 PM PDT by TBP
Bush was preparing to give a speech to the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC. The conference is the event of the year for conservative activists; Republican politicians are required to appear and offer their praise of the conservative movement.
Latimer got the assignment to write Bush's speech. Draft in hand, he and a few other writers met with the president in the Oval Office. Bush was decidedly unenthusiastic.
"What is this movement you keep talking about in the speech?" the president asked Latimer.
Latimer explained that he meant the conservative movement -- the movement that gave rise to groups like CPAC.
"Let me tell you something," the president said. "I whupped Gary Bauer's ass in 2000. So take out all this movement stuff. There is no movement."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Ah the frat boy socialist yankee speaks. Now the true colors are being shown.
Apparently, you are one of those who think there is no difference between the two parties. You are third party, perhaps? Libertarian?
Look at how the two parties vote on every issue. Remove the Rino’s vote, and it’s the Republicans taking the directly opposite position against the whacked out Democrats every time. There IS a difference. This country is a Republic, you know.
Bush and his entire family back to before the revolution has been against the US as an independant nation!
He’s another in a long line of socialist pile of crap!
If it were not 100% consistent with Bush's behavior in office, it wouldn't be getting any traction.
What conservative organization would invite GWB to speak? He is no conservative!
Sounds like a crock of poop.
Oh he redefined the Republican party all right. Into a toothless minority party.
“Obama is smarter than this. On the campaign trail, hisspeechesreadings, in clear, coherent English (guess dozens of errrs...ahhhs.. didn't count)...... Even some of us in the Bush White House studied Obama’sspeechesreadings and marveled at theirgraceperformance.”
Images of Bush in a Wife beaters T-shirt slapping the fools here on FR who still believe he was a conservative, man do they deserve each other.
Spot On.
And when you remind them that Bush gave us "No Child Left Behind" or that Bush gave us the "750 Billion Dollar Medicare Part D," they find some excuse for Bush.
And of course there was that time when Bush pushed the Amnesty Bill.
However, there is some good news, Dubya is going to dress up as a Conservative for Halloween.
He and the Republican congress spent like drunken sailors (no offense to drunken sailors) which was a major reason they lost in 2006 and 2008.
Check out The National Debt Road Trip 2:46 video, to see a graphic representation of Big Government Republicans.
(On bogus NewsMax Article): First on the Ticker: Bush, Palin aide disputes book claims.
Recher said. "Nobody knows who he is. When people heard he was writing a book the most common reaction has been, 'Who?'"
White House insiders don't know who the guy is but you'll buy what he's selling.
But for Ronald Reagan and his conservative movement, GW and his father (and his brother in Florida) could have been elected to nothing. They would have been limited to the occasional small potatoes political appointee appartatchiks as GB Senior had been under Gerry Ford and Nixon (remember, his only elective office had been as a congressman in a safe Houston district). The biggest mistake Ronaldus Magnus made was to elevate this family by choosing someone who stood for nothing as his Vice President.
Bush seemed to go soft in the head part way into his second term.
Maybe he just couldn’t take the pressure any longer.
That’s a non sequitur if I have ever seen one! Bauer may well have been a poor politician. Privately, Bauer probably wishes that GHWB had whupped Dubya’s ass more. The “conservative movement” in 2008, with the pitiful choices forced on us by the dysfunctional GOP primary system, was to sit home on the couch while a racist phony friend of domestic terrorists was elected to the “throne.”
Watch him on all the networks. There you can see your guy rise to stardom.
It will be exciting for you.
Lame ducks show their true colors.
“Let me tell you something,” the president said. “I whupped Gary Bauer’s ass in 2000. So take out all this movement stuff. There is no movement
GWB sounds like he’s back on the sauce. Hell he destroyed the Pubbies and caused the election of the Mam man.
Why should I take the word of someone who wants to sell a book based only on the fact that they spent a year or so writing speeches for GWB?
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