If I miss anyone, it’s Ronald Reagan.
What’s with this Bush bashing from Republicans/Conservatives?
Is there a purpose to this? Don’t we have enough problems with NObama’s Fundamental changes? Malkin disappoints me.
People forget so easily. Staying on the offense in the WOT was amazingly HARD and we had an superlative CIC who kept us safe while sustaining the morale of the Armed Forces; not many men could have done the same and I know the Good Lord raised Bush up for such a time as that.
Yes, I DO miss President Bush. A lot.
Michelle is right about this one. The thing I hated most about Bush is he would never fight the real enemy of America....the scumbag leftists.
He never said a word. All the while they were pummeling him, the war effort, and all things reasonable and decent.
We have this communist coup thanks in part to get along RINOs like Bush and McPOS.
I do... and Laura, too.
There should be a big lesson in here for the GOP.
W pushed his Prescription Drug Plan thinking that it would be popular and win the Republicans some support in traditionally Democrat voting blocks.
Yeah, THAT worked out well!
No point in creating new entitlements with that logic since obviously you don’t get any credit from the recipients and they still don’t vote for you.
Congress abandoned him, a majority of the American people abandoned him, the MSM crucified him and Bush stood alone against them all and upped the ante in Iraq and the WOT.
This is why I miss President Bush despite his penchant for going along with government spending against his better instincts.
There were even many here at FR who were ready to toss in the towel on Iraq and fighting jihadists wherever they are found.
And yes I know it is the warriors who do the fighting but without a CIC directing them to do that they do no fighting.
I like President Bush despite his mistakes. I hold in contempt the members of both parties and the Americans who lost their balls and opposed him both actively and passively in his mission to win in Iraq, Afghanistan and against jihadism in general.
However, in the entire body of work that is the Presidency of George W. Bush, the following surely should be mentioned too:
- He kept us safe from another terrorist act during his 8 years as President;
- He prevented the words 'President Gore' from ever being said together (just stop and think of the immeasurable good that came from this being prevented!);
- SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts;
- SCOTUS Justice Samuel Alito;
- He was a good and decent man who loves the USA (not taken for granted any longer);
- He loved and was loved by our men and women in the military;
- He gave us Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld during a crucial time for our country.
There's plenty more and I invite others to add to the list.
Flame suit on. Check.
Malkin’s list against Bush43 is on the mark.
Bush43 did some good. He was also pro-military, pro-WOT, pro-America, pro-tax cuts, Pro-Life and he appointed two conservatives to the SCOTUS.
If the choice is a big spending, big government Republican versus a fiscally insane liberal-socialist, well ....
As I have been saying on all these threads, it’s like asking a terminal cancer patient if he misses having heartburn. I don’t miss either one, although one is a helluva lot worse than the other.
Bush is and always will be an incredibly frustrating mixed bag. He did great, for the most part, on issues of war and terrorism and foreign policy for that matter too.
He was a complete disaster on domestic fiscal policy. He didn’t spend as much as Comrade Obama but he set the stage and primed the pump from Day 1 in office. He could care less about spending restraint and he cynically paid lip service to fiscal conservatives around election time with no intention of following through. And to rub salt in the wounds, he was portrayed and largely viewed by the ignorant public as a nasty conservative who was cutting programs. And don’t even get me started on immigration.
He will always have my respect for being a decent, honorable and humble man who did what was right on war, terrorism and foreign policy issues. He was deeply flawed, a failure, on government spending and expansion of the welfare state.
/Bump
And after Health Care, comprehensive immigration reform is next. So I pray former President Bush sits on the side lines and keeps his mouth shut on this particular issue.
Michelle Malkin is generally spot on.
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Attacking Bush today while a hyper-lib sits in the Oval Office reeks of a spoiled, can’t-have-my-perfect-way loser.
It was necessary to destroy the ville in order to save it.
Eh, there’s some things I miss about George W. Bush, and some I don’t. Even over and above policy, he and Laura lent a touch of class and grace to the White House that The Kenyan and the First Wookie simply don’t have.
It’s an accurate list of his failings, but remember, on national security he did well overall, and he did give us two good Supreme Court justices. He wasn’t perfect by any means, but he was (and would still be) a damnsight better than The Kenyan.
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