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GW Bush: "There is no [conservative] movement...I redefined the Republican Party"
Washington Examiner ^ | September 15, 2009 | Byron York

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anythingformoney; bashbush; bookdeals; bush; bush43; bushbash; conservative; cpac; latimer; liberal; mattlatimer; obamalover; republicanparty
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To: TBP

Ah the frat boy socialist yankee speaks. Now the true colors are being shown.


21 posted on 09/16/2009 12:22:15 PM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: B-Chan

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.


22 posted on 09/16/2009 12:24:01 PM PDT by sasportas
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To: TBP

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!


23 posted on 09/16/2009 12:24:06 PM PDT by dalereed
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To: what's up
Ah, so you are one of the Freepers who believe this guy Latimer's every word even though you had likely never heard of him a few days ago.

If it were not 100% consistent with Bush's behavior in office, it wouldn't be getting any traction.

24 posted on 09/16/2009 12:24:43 PM PDT by Sloth (Ted Kennedy's brain tumor has killed more people than my gun.)
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To: TBP

What conservative organization would invite GWB to speak? He is no conservative!


25 posted on 09/16/2009 12:25:47 PM PDT by Paperdoll
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To: TBP

Sounds like a crock of poop.


26 posted on 09/16/2009 12:26:09 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: TBP

Oh he redefined the Republican party all right. Into a toothless minority party.


27 posted on 09/16/2009 12:26:38 PM PDT by DManA
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To: roses of sharon
“Obama is smarter than this. On the campaign trail, his speeches readings, in clear, coherent English (guess dozens of errrs...ahhhs.. didn't count)...... Even some of us in the Bush White House studied Obama’s speeches readings and marveled at their grace performance.”

28 posted on 09/16/2009 12:26:44 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen ( Bitter voter... clinging to my Lord, doctor and wallet)
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To: B-Chan
Your post is too funny!!

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.

29 posted on 09/16/2009 12:27:25 PM PDT by gitmogrunt (Not studying History is for morons who are eager to repeat it.)
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To: B-Chan
I’m laughing right now at all the diehard GOP voters here on FR. You guys remind me of the typical beaten wife one sees attacking the cops as they haul away her abusive husband. “But Ah still loves him!” they cry. “Ah can change him!”

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.

30 posted on 09/16/2009 12:29:44 PM PDT by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: TBP
Tax cuts and defending the nation (at last!!!) against Islamofascists was a good start for the Bush Administration. Sadly, the remainder of his administration was largely disappointing and clearly NOT conservative.

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.

31 posted on 09/16/2009 12:30:08 PM PDT by steelyourfaith ("Power is not alluring to pure minds." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: TBP
I am amazed at the freepers buying this guys story. Some are so easily led.

(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.

32 posted on 09/16/2009 12:30:29 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: Stand Watch Listen
Hilarious! Latimer is a Frum/Brooks sycophant...wants the GOP to be less white, and less hetro!
33 posted on 09/16/2009 12:31:08 PM PDT by roses of sharon ( Reagan said, "When you can't make them see the light, make them feel the heat.")
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To: DManA

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.


34 posted on 09/16/2009 12:32:17 PM PDT by laconic
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To: TBP

Bush seemed to go soft in the head part way into his second term.

Maybe he just couldn’t take the pressure any longer.


35 posted on 09/16/2009 12:32:20 PM PDT by Scanian
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To: trumandogz

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.”


36 posted on 09/16/2009 12:33:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Unashamed Sarah-Bot.)
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To: Sloth
You just go ahead and believe some low-level speechwriter who has a chance to make several million bucks off any lie he chooses to tell and which "seems consistent".

Watch him on all the networks. There you can see your guy rise to stardom.

It will be exciting for you.

37 posted on 09/16/2009 12:33:54 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Scanian

Lame ducks show their true colors.


38 posted on 09/16/2009 12:34:11 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Unashamed Sarah-Bot.)
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To: TBP

“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.


39 posted on 09/16/2009 12:36:28 PM PDT by kenmcg (THE)
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To: TBP

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?


40 posted on 09/16/2009 12:36:50 PM PDT by ShandaLear (Cronyism, Protectionism, Socialism, Obamunism)
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