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Bush Was a Statist, Not a Conservative
CATO @ Liberty ^ | 2010-04-12 | Daniel J. Mitchell

Posted on 04/12/2010 10:30:40 AM PDT by rabscuttle385

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1 posted on 04/12/2010 10:30:40 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: rabscuttle385

No, Bush... like his father... are old fashioned liberals... today’s progressive party are America hating commies that embrace sharia under a one world banner... no comparison at all... and Ronald Reagan stands alone in comparison to any other Modern President.

LLS


2 posted on 04/12/2010 10:33:37 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: rabscuttle385
This sums it up:

“Tax-rate reductions are the only positive achievement, and those are temporary … Everything else that has happened has been permanent, and a step toward more statism.” He cited big increases in the federal budget, along with continuing subsidies in agriculture and transportation, new Medicare drug benefits, and increased federal intervention in education and housing.

3 posted on 04/12/2010 10:35:38 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: rabscuttle385

GWB and GHWB are not conservatives. never have been. just less left than their opponents.


4 posted on 04/12/2010 10:36:09 AM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Everytime EVERYTIME you have to listen to that Marxist Muslim behind the Presidential Podium - don’t EVER forget who helped put him there - Bush II and John McCain.

America has had a succession of bad Presidents - Bush I, Clinton and Bush II, followed by an EVIL President - Barack Hussein Obama.


5 posted on 04/12/2010 10:36:54 AM PDT by ZULU
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To: rabscuttle385

I’d men fences all week long in Texas before I rode in Scareforce One with PelObasi FrankInReid, Puppets Inc.


6 posted on 04/12/2010 10:37:27 AM PDT by Voter62vb
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To: rabscuttle385

Jorge Big Government Bush alert.

Understand the past so as not to repeat it in the future.

No more Bushes.


7 posted on 04/12/2010 10:38:12 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: LibLieSlayer
I won't disagree with your assessment. Bush the younger as much as told us in his run-up to candidacy ala 'compassionate conservatism'.

OUR fault is that we mistakenly transformed his compassionate conservatism into actual conservatism when he transformed his presidency into one aimed at this country from MUSLIM terrorists. It still didn't erase his basic failings, that he is a go-along-get-along patriot. I don't fault him. He protected us, unlike our current White House resident. We should just be realistic in the assessment of what he actually was and IS, that's all.

8 posted on 04/12/2010 10:40:06 AM PDT by Gaffer ("Profling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
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To: rabscuttle385

Ambrose Bierce defined politics as the ‘strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principle’. Both major political parties are consumed by special interests, and personal freedom has been obscured by the flowery rhetoric.


9 posted on 04/12/2010 10:43:03 AM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: rabscuttle385

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10 posted on 04/12/2010 10:43:32 AM PDT by PMAS
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To: rabscuttle385
Bush was a Satanist?
That's rather harsh...
11 posted on 04/12/2010 10:44:32 AM PDT by Riodacat (Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.)
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To: rabscuttle385; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; genetic homophobe; ...
Carve this into Mt Rushmore under his Bust: "See you at the signing".

There you go again, picking on Republicans :) shame on you! (Am I the first to lecture here?? Do I get a free toaster?)

12 posted on 04/12/2010 10:45:34 AM PDT by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=taxes delayed")
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To: camle

Not much less left. Thanks to Jorge Busho many metropolitan areas of the US have become mexican shooting ranges.


13 posted on 04/12/2010 10:48:20 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: rabscuttle385

George W. Bush, as personable as he is, is certainly no conservative. He comes from a one worlder family, and is parat of the Establishment.


14 posted on 04/12/2010 10:49:15 AM PDT by Paperdoll ( On the cutting edge)
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To: rabscuttle385

Ask Israel, Czech Republic, Poland, etc. whether Bush was conservative. Meanwhile, Ron Paul looks like Chavez and Castro from those places.


15 posted on 04/12/2010 10:50:13 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: Riodacat
RE :”Bush was a Satanist? That's rather harsh...

LOL

16 posted on 04/12/2010 10:50:42 AM PDT by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the federal spending=taxes delayed")
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To: gusopol3
Ask Israel, Czech Republic, Poland, etc. whether Bush was conservative.

Bush was elected by Americans and is thus accountable to Americans, not Israelis, Czechs, Poles, etc.

17 posted on 04/12/2010 10:51:25 AM PDT by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: rabscuttle385

George W. Bush along with the help of the GOP run House and Senate, never saw a major spending bill he couldn’t sign. I still think the worst political mistake Ronald Reagan ever made was allowing the GOP to force him into choosing George H.W. Bush as his running mate and allowing the Bush dynasty to get a foothold on Pennsylvania Avenue.


18 posted on 04/12/2010 10:53:28 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: ZULU

Bush I and Bush II were clueless global enablers. Clinton and Obama were/are pure evil period. That doesn’t mean that Bush I and Bush II shouldn’t have known better. They both deserve our disdain for some of their programs.


19 posted on 04/12/2010 10:55:26 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Be still & kneel before the know-nothing Omnipotent One, Il Douche' Jr., may fleas be upon him.)
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To: rabscuttle385

History will be kind to Pres. GW Bush.


20 posted on 04/12/2010 10:56:04 AM PDT by upsdriver (ret.)
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