Posted on 09/15/2010 8:46:29 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Clinton: In new GOP, Bush a liberal By: Andy Barr September 15, 2010 10:47 AM EDT
Bill Clinton contends that the Republican Party has shifted so far to the right this election cycle that George W. Bush would be considered a liberal by 2010's standard.
“A lot of their candidates today, they make him look like a liberal,” the former president said of his conservative successor during a Democratic fundraiser in Minnesota, the Associated Press reported.
Clinton was in Minnesota campaigning for gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton, who is vying to replace Tim Pawlenty, a possible 2012 Republican presidential contender.
He also took aim at the tea party during his remarks Tuesday, delivered shortly before the loosely defined grassroots organization scored major wins in Delaware and New York GOP primaries.
“The Boston Tea Party was protesting abuse of power. This is now trading public power for the abuse of private power,” Clinton said.
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DAMN RIGHT!
HE was in some ways way too liberal for me
Billy Goat is pretty close to accurate.
Freepers knew that years ago when he lost his veto pen.
He always was!
I’m so used to Clinton lying that it’s a bit of a shock to hear him tell the truth.
W always was a liberal, just not a commie, marxist like the current ‘rat Party. Rove too; and the horse he rode in on.
I didn’t read this story the first 5 times it was posted and I’m not going to read it the next 5 times it’s posted.
I don’t give a flying f* what this a** says about anything.
(Just saying.)
Let’s see...presided over out of control speding. Never once vetoed a deficit feeding spending bill, CREATED a new entitlement program. Tripled Federal spending on public education, intruding on what should be local responsibilities. He fought for and signed the largest ever spending bill then known to man when he foisted TARP on us. I don’t know...in some ways Bush is pretty damn liberal!
ClintonIdiot remembering/recalling his days of watching the Dems get their collective asses handed to them in 1994.....as will come this November. Lament idiot, lament. =.=
Well that wouldn't be hard to do considering the GOP has become Liberal lite. Hopefully the GOP is shifting right and 'so far' right it makes the Marxist head spin but I won't hold my breath either. Our nation, including the GOP, has moved so far left it makes someone like LBJ almost look middle of the road.
Amnesty plan
Prescription drug benefit
bailout
that chick he nominated for scotus(don’t even remember the name)
On his domestic spending policy agenda, Bush was very liberal.... prescription drugs, education ...
What he and his other liberal jackass friends have never understood -
There is no such thing as public power - only the power which the private (ie people) grant it. Like so many other over-educated yet totally lacking in common sense fools, he believes the “public” should rule over the “private.”
In order to keep such nonsense in check, was the reason for the second amendment.
Hey, where’d you get that photo? There weren’t supposed to be any cameramen at that meeting!
The Leftists and their Stealth Leftist cohorts, better known as RINOs, have been caught trying to run the table. Us good folk on the right are not going to be deceived again on a large scale by phonies posing as conservatives.
Politicians beware: party affiliation is no longer the standard by which you are judged. If we catch you lying, you will be numbered with the Leftists.
Let the purges begin!
Bush's Daddy was from the New England/Rockefeller wing of the party. That was clear when he first ran against Reagan. The apple didn't fall far from the tree.
While this brand of Republicanism is always preferable to Marxist Democrats, it is not and has never been conservative.
How is keeping more of your own money “the abuse of private power”? It is abusive to keep it from the government that wants needs and deserves it so much? WTH?
That a national political figure, a former President, would say this is downright frightening. He has no concept of all legitimate power coming from the people. I'd love to hear what Sam Adams would reply to Clinton, or what he would have to say about the Tea Party movement.
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