Clinton: New-look GOP makes Bush look liberal

Star Tribune ^ | 9/14/10

[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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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.

[MindBender26]

"It used to be that Republicans were evidence-based, not dogma-based," Clinton said, citing the administration of President Dwight Eisenhower.

"Cuze me, Mr. Prezdet.... but does the name "Ronald Reagan" ring a bell????

[OldMissileer]

Bush and his father did nothing for the nuclear weapons business. Bush the 1st not only stood down our bombers and over half of the ICBM force but his military generals were the ones to eliminate SAC and start us on the culture of laxness and the safety problems regarding all of our nukes.

Bush the 2nd ignored the nuclear business after Clinton tried to unilaterally disarm us.

I know my tag line. I also know what they all did since my duties and jobs were directly involved with this business and working directly with the administrations and our allies on weapons development and their nuclear plans and policies.

[Southack]

You say that you know the nuclear business, yet you clearly don’t know that Bush authorized the development of micronukes for bunker busters as well as the replacement of old atomic warheads with newer, more powerful replacements.

Tsk, tsk, tsk...

[T.L.Sink]

First, let me say that Obama is so disastrous as a president that he’s in a category all by himself. In only a year and a half he’s bankrupted the nation and put the next couple generations in hock. He’s taken a giant step with his bailouts and ObamaCare towards socializing the country. He’s apologized for America abroad and weakened our military. Having said that, it doesn’t excuse Bush for his reckless spending and creation of a new entitlement. Even Rush criticized him for that. Bush was certainly pretty good on national defense but, IMHO, his problem was he didn’t know that you can’t reduce taxes without cutting SPENDING. That’s why our recession began at the end of his term. He had good intentions but he was always, at bottom, a RINO.