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I know a lot of people want to see Bush as this generation’s Ronald Reagan. While I sympathize with that desire, because I would love to see a person come along who could legitimately be seen as that, it is a massive insult to Ronald Reagan to claim he was nothing more than what George Bush was.

He could communicate.
He knew what to communicate.
He knew just what buttons to push on the left, and how to do it.
He got Democrats to come to his side of the isle, without ‘compassionate conservatism’ or selling his Conservative soul to do it, at the polls.
He wasn’t afraid to call a spade a spade. He told it like it was, and explained why it was.
He stood up to the Democrats, but in a way that got it’s leadership to join him.
He rebuilt our military, after Carter, and didn’t just set new lowered limits to gloss over the prior cuts.

I miss Reagan too much, to accept an inferior substitute.

Back in 2002 I believed talk radio and told Republicans and Democrats that he would be seen in history as a great visionary, another Reagan. Well after many painful years I went back and apologized for that prediction, the 12 step Bush-bot recovery program. Yes, I believed in everything, when Cheney went on NBC and predicted Iraq oil would pay for reconstruction I believed. When he talked about WMDs I believed. Like current Bots I convinced myself GWB was sent to us. This is why I cant tolerate current Bots. (We did get two good things, Alito and Roberts)

Reflections of a (very unhappy) former Bush-Bot in Obama-land