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Posted on 09/14/2010 11:31:43 PM PDT by Libloather
Clinton: New-look GOP makes Bush look liberal
The former president spoke at a fundraiser for DFL gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton in Minneapolis.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Last update: September 14, 2010 - 11:41 PM
Former President Bill Clinton said Tuesday that the Republican Party is embracing "ideology over evidence" and pushing out pragmatic voices that would make even his White House successor seem like a liberal.
Clinton, speaking at a DFL Party fundraiser in Minneapolis, said there was no mistaking that Republicans have tacked hard right and questioned whether former President George W. Bush would fit in among the party's candidates this year.
"A lot of their candidates today, they make him look like a liberal," Clinton told an enthusiastic crowd at a downtown Minneapolis hotel.
"It used to be that Republicans were evidence-based, not dogma-based," Clinton said, citing the administration of President Dwight Eisenhower. "They have thrown all that overboard. This is about dogma and big special interest under the guise of the Tea Party.
"The Boston Tea Party was protesting abuse of power. This is now trading public power for the abuse of private power. Don't kid yourself," Clinton said, just as a Tea Party-backed candidate was declared the winner Tuesday night in Delaware's Republican primary for U.S. Senate.
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FUBC.
He’s right. Bush was liberal.
That’s why he left office with a 22% approval rating.
Clintons and Bushes hurt this country more than they helped. imho
The Tainted One has spoken. Go away Billy and take the Chubby Lesbian with you.
This is just the liberal’s backhanded way of saying that Bush wasn’t as bad as the Left kept claiming all along.
Even Clinton knows that Bush was the first President to roll back Roe v Wade with a permanent federal ban on partial birth abortions, so claiming that Bush isn’t right-wing is a stretch on anything other than spending...
...and even on spending, 0bama’s recent federal spending makes Bush look like a miser.
ROFL...Bush was a progressive republican.
What big special interest?
Uh, maybe because Bush was liberal.
LOL!! They’re all in a tizzy about the Tea Party! You all ought to be scared...because you’re all finished.
Have another cigar, Bill—you’ll feel better.
Bush was a RINO. Sure, he was conservative in certain areas but his core philosophy was one that expanded government. Too many Bush apologists seem to ignore that fact.
What big special interest?Big Small Government, of course!
New look?
What a buffoon. Bush was too liberal on a number of matters.
Nobody changed to make Bush somehow out of step in hindsight. He was out of step at the time.
So Americans speaking out is abusing private power? I think Clinton abused his private power too much. Badabing!
Bush WAS a liberal.....
Tammy Bruce, no conservative herself, pegged GWB as a “liberal who happens to be religious”. Aside from what appeared to be a genuine pro-life position and support for a strong national defense, he didn’t have a conservative bone in his body.
Wow, once in awhile even a Syphilitic can get it right.
You’re right. Bush was soft on the illegal alien invasion, an out-of-control spender (the biggest entitlement program since LBJ - prescription drugs) and, before he was stopped by universal public outrage, about to appoint an unqualified friend (Harriet Miers)to the Supreme Court. He never saw a spending bill he didn’t like. He’s one of the main reasons Obama won because he alienated the conservative base and gave the Dems a huge load of ammunition that they’re still using to this very day! Bush was NO conservative.
No. Medicaid prescription drug plans, propping up the Dept. of Education with No Child Left Behind, advocating for amnesty for illegal aliens, calling Islam "The Religion of Peace", etc. made Bush look liberal.
All citizens benefit from true conservativism -- that is pro-American, pro-Constitution, pro-freedom; for smaller, constitutionally-aligned government; for American productivity and prosperity; for a safer, stronger America -- and against the destructive policies of both the leftist Democrats and the leftist, globalist RINOs.
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