Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Mengerian
To blame the current Constitutional crisis on President George W. Bush and Rove is beyond preposterous.

I'm not going to blame Obamacare on Bush. That would be stupid. Obamacare is squarely the fault of Obama and any Democrats and RINOs foolish enough to jump on his bandwagon.

That said, the epic failure that was the Bush-Rove "compassionate conservatism" (aka Socialism cloaked in conservatism) certainly helped create the conditions under which Obama and the Democrats rose to power.

60 posted on 12/22/2009 8:28:46 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Purge the RINOs! * http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 47 | View Replies ]


To: rabscuttle385
Fair enough.

Regrettably, I believe Bush likened (and terribly misread) working with Democrats from the Texas legislature to working with establishment, DC Democrats when he rose to the White House.

In his heart, I believe he sought a convivial atmosphere for genuine bipartisan cooperation (which he became accustomed to in TX) and occasionally threw them a few bones (No Child Left Behind, bloated budgets), yet in the end, it bit him in the rear.

Moreover, as much as I like Dick Cheney, I believe the neo-cons did a great degree of disservice to his presidency and harm to the GOP. Despite that, all future maneuvering and corruption by Obama & Co. in the executive and legislative branches cannot be pinned on or attributed to President Bush and Karl Rove.

66 posted on 12/22/2009 8:40:46 PM PST by Mengerian
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson