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Clinton: New-look GOP makes Bush look liberal
Star Tribune ^ | 9/14/10

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.
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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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To: T.L.Sink

Bush was quite conservative by banning partial birth abortion, deploying national missile defenses, and cutting taxes.

Had the Public been in the mood for someone even more conservative than Bush back in 2000, Cheney would have been at the top of the ticket instead of at the bottom.

What has happened, however, is that the Public is shifting further to the Right to compensate for 0bama’s rabid Leftism.

0bama wouldn’t be re-elected today...Bush would (if he could win his Primary).


21 posted on 09/15/2010 12:07:20 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: counterpunch
He’s right. Bush was liberal.

Way too liberal for me.

22 posted on 09/15/2010 12:07:51 AM PDT by South40 ("Islam has a long tradition of tolerance." ~Hussein Obama, June 4, 2009, Cairo, Egypt)
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To: absalom01
"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."

How quickly we forget Bush's tax cuts, immunity from lawsuits for American firearms manufacturers, and the expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban...

23 posted on 09/15/2010 12:10:21 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Libloather

Well, yes, Clinton’s right. And Bush’s “liberal” signatures on Nancy elosi’s budgets were what caused the losses in 2008.

Bush’s “liberal” signatures to liberal bills from the liberal Senators in 2002 through 2006 were what caused the Pelosi victory in 2006.


24 posted on 09/15/2010 12:11:22 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Libloather
New-look GOP makes exposes Bush look liberalizm
25 posted on 09/15/2010 12:17:31 AM PDT by lewislynn (All the dream solutions for reducing consumption comes from dim bulbs)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

Bush sent Bolton to the UN in 2005.


26 posted on 09/15/2010 12:18:25 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

Oh he wasn’t all bad. He did some things right. Just not enough.

And his handling of the press stunk.


27 posted on 09/15/2010 12:20:07 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Southack
How quickly we forget Bush's tax cuts, immunity from lawsuits for American firearms manufacturers, and the expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban...

Plus the Prescription Drug addition to Medicare has actually brought the cost of drugs down for everyone with the big chains like WalMart, etc., offering savings of their own. It has actually lowered the cost of Medicare.

No Child Left Behind put teeth into an education program that always threatened to cut funds to failing schools but never did, increasing them instead. Just as Bush's cuts were to take place the Democrats took over and I don't know where that is now. I do know the Dems were crying like babies about it.

No one has ever handled the illegal question well including our hero RWR. Too many Leftists still in power. I wouldn't fault Bush for something no one else has solved either.

28 posted on 09/15/2010 12:23:02 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done needs to be done by the government)
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To: Libloather
Clinton: New-look GOP makes Bush look liberal

So what? Bush WAS a liberal.

29 posted on 09/15/2010 12:31:40 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: OldMissileer

You wouldn’t have your national missile defenses without Bush. Check your own tagline for that lineage...


30 posted on 09/15/2010 12:33:39 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Libloather

Bush did a good job on defense, but his $389B deficit in 2008 DID look liberal and is what turned so many conservatives off when they saw the even more liberal McCain nominated. So, yes, those who got involved because they object to Obama’s $1.5T plus deficits would make Bush look liberal. Is that a problem? I don’t think so, at least not to those who care about the burden that Obama and Pelosi are leaving for our children.


31 posted on 09/15/2010 1:09:32 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Libloather

Like it’s really so hard to do? Bush has his conservative areas, but he compromised with the left plenty enough, in fact that was one of his campaign promises.


32 posted on 09/15/2010 1:09:33 AM PDT by eclecticEel (Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
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To: Libloather

Bush is somewhat liberal!


33 posted on 09/15/2010 1:30:06 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter Of Fact, Not A Matter Of Opinion)
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To: Libloather
This is now trading public power for the abuse of private power.

What the hell does that mean?

34 posted on 09/15/2010 1:38:43 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: Libloather

Bush is a liberal,, this assessment comes from a prez. who will always be a 2 bit turd.


35 posted on 09/15/2010 1:44:13 AM PDT by Waco (From Seward to Sarah)
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To: Libloather

Sounds wonderful to me....


36 posted on 09/15/2010 2:10:25 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Libloather
The best way to describe George W Bush who said he agreed with Gore on most issues? Bush was the continued terms of Lyndon Baines Johnson is the best description. The nation has moved so far left John F Kennedy would now be considered a right wing radical conservative even by many GOP standards of today. Poppy was so far left Bill Clinton simply ran to the right of him and won. The same with Clinton vs Dole. That doesn't mean Willard was further right of them on policy but rather he ran his campaign to the right of Poppy and Dole.
37 posted on 09/15/2010 2:30:28 AM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: KoRn

Probably, but I’d take him back in place of what we have now. Bush lost me over his acceptance and approval of the illegal invasion, but Obama makes Bush look like a conservative.

I do admire Bush as a person. I don’t know that I would vote for him again unless it was against Obama or somebody equally as evil.


38 posted on 09/15/2010 2:30:50 AM PDT by Melinda in TN
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To: Pollster1
Bush did a good job on defense,

Defense was one of his biggest blunders. It started by making Rummy Sec of Def. Want to know who invented the Carter Military? It was Rummy. Early 1977 and I mean very early things were a huge mess.

Several bad moves. First was Rummy. Second was not raising End Troop Strengths by a minimal 25% immediately after 9/11. 30% increase would have been ideal. Net increase? Zero. Troops were doing 3-5 tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Issues like Naval readiness which began under Poppy continued under Clinton and George mostly uncorrected. Our Navy is down from the 594 ships in 1987 to the 289 left in 2008. Critical maintenance was still being shorted. Maintenance that got done even in the Carter years.

The worse mistake military wise? Using our military for something he said he was against and had rightfully blasted Clinton and Gore for doing which was nation building. If Bush had let our troops do their job in a military manner and not a State Department ran one the War in Iraq would have been short and Iran would not have even thought about a nuclear program. Ignoring Yemen was another very huge mistake. Bin Laden could have and may be safely hiding there sad to say.

The Court Martials of our troops serving in Iraq was also another huge political and military blunder. Bush brought in Poppy's old team to run things which was Gerald Fords old team which was as much as responsible as Carter for the birth of M.E. state sponsored terrorism. On Foreign Policy? Wrong especially in relation to Israel. Israel had he left them alone and stayed out of their business could have done us some very huge favors in true progress in the W.O.T.

39 posted on 09/15/2010 2:55:51 AM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: Southack

Even the Democrats wouldn’t now touch a firearms bill. And, Bush is supposed to, after decades of GOP support for ‘reasonable’ gun laws, get credit for a bill that the Democrats wouldn’t fight? Easy pickings. A thing RINO’s often do, support a conservative cause that is unopposed and then brag about it. It’s called boob bait for Bubbas, gaming the system.


40 posted on 09/15/2010 3:52:52 AM PDT by Leisler ("Over time they create a legal system that plunders and a moral code that glorifies it." F. Bastiat)
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