I don’t believe you.
You have been a FReeper since before the 2000 election.
There is no way you were not in the Bush camp during your FR time.
Come on, be honest!!
Except for Ronaldus Maximus, every candidate is some sort of compromise. Bush the Elder was up to his eyeballs in exotic and sovereignty-sapping and destructive foreign policy notions that amounted to international Kumbaya among the world's business and financial elites. His son was a far better POTUS and got a second term but he wore out the our military personnel by continually forcing extensions of their service time. He refused to veto any of the garbage passed bv Congress, made nice to Ted the Swimmer, and compromised with the Demonrats all too often rather than laying out the case against them as Ronaldus Maximus did.
Barbara Bush and, for that matter, Laura Bush, and Laura Bush's and Dubya's daughters are social revolutionaries in the mold of the late Dorothy Bush (Bush the Elder's mama) of Planned Barrenhood fame. They enjoy better reputations than they deserve because of their marriages or parentage. Nancy Reagan was and is no prize either.
That having been said, Reagan was infinitely superior to Carter and Mondale, Bush the Elder was far superior to Michael Dukakis. Bush the Younger was far superior to AlGore and to Comrade John F'n Kerry. McCain was better than Comrade Obamao. So are each of my household cats and so was my late great Norwegian Elkhound. Who isn't? Somewhere along the line, we need to stop apologizing for our own common sense in the face of the fabricated and imagined "superiority" of leftist mythology and of the culterati. We need to make an unapologetic defense of reality and the wisdom and absolute preferability of conservatism. Barbara Bush does not have that in her. She is no icon and Palin is far better as a source of wisdom. You betcha!