Ain't that the truth. It's sad, really. They have nothing left I guess.
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
Posted on 06/20/2011 6:02:23 PM PDT by KantianBurke
NEW ORLEANS — Republicans head into 2012 united in their disdain for an unpopular, Big Government-loving, internationalist president.
The name of that president: George W. Bush.
From Capitol Hill to the statehouses to the presidential primary, Republicans are turning their back on almost every important accomplishment of the Bush administration.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Ain't that the truth. It's sad, really. They have nothing left I guess.
Or you can get raw with these strings. Either way, the violin is sweet yet lethal.
Do it!
Besides crapping out in his second term with policies like immigration, IMO, the biggest mistake the Bush team made was never hitting back against the poisonous garbage the MSM spewed. That lack of fight certainly helped Soetoro win for sure.
I've counter protested pretty near every anti-war ANSWER/Code Pink march along with all my DC Chapter friends. I've stood outside the Walter Reed gate for most of the Friday nights the last 6 years cheering on our troops. I've been to most of the Tea Party rallies in DC. Been to all the Veterans for Truth rallies. Antogonized the liberal press 8 of the last 10 years at the WH Correspondents Association dinner. I'm just scratching the surface.
I've been telling my DC Chapter friends since 2003 that Bush was ruining the conservative brand. And he did. That's why we lost congress in 2006 and the WH in 2008. It took a Marxist to turn things around in 2010 - not the previous WH occupant RINO.
So when you say I'm in solidarity with the left you're talking out your ass. And that makes you an idiot.
I think the GOP is turning away from some of President Bush’s more liberal policies (Medicare, No Child Left Behind, excessive spending). And that’s a good thing.
But there’s quite a gulf between disliking Medicare and disliking George Bush. There’s a gulf between acknowledging his mistakes and refusing to acknowledge his accomplishments.
George W. Bush did many good things as president. His stand on social issues was good. His Supreme Court justices are excellent. His anti-terrorism campaign was so manifestly successful even Obama is too afraid to mess with his policies. Iraq has been stable and quiet for a long time; it may yet be Bush’s most brilliant accomplishment (but not Obama’s!).
And President Bush is a man of character. Believing that our most serious deficit is one of character, I don’t dismiss that.
If the Republican Party is turning against No Child Left Behind, I’m all for it. If they outright abolished the Department of Education, I’d cheer them all the way. If they are going back to the “realist” foreign policy of men like Jim Baker - who, back in the dark days of 2006, thought the solution to Iraq was negotiating with Iran - I oppose it.
Because some of Bush’s policies were right and need to be continued. Some were wrong and need to be rejected. But he is a good man, and there’s no need to disdain him.
A remarkable achievement which has given America the security to continue on.
Yet the man who made it possible is rarely thanked by America...very grievesome.
Linda Tripp!!!!! Great catch! I forgot how they immediately betrayed her. Can’t have those commoners disrespecting the ruling class!
And he beat Gore fair and square,
...despite Democrats trashing military votes
...despite Democrats dissing Kathleen Harris for accurately applying Florida election law
...despite Democrats having written that law
...despite Democrats in the Florida House passing the law
...despite Democrats in the Florida Senate passing the law
...despite a Democrat governor of Florida signing the law
...despite Democrats taking the election into the courts to cherry-pick heavily Dem counties
...despite Democrats having freely chosen the butterfly ballot in the cherry-picked counties
...despite Democrats running the elections in the cherry-picked counties
...despite Democrats who run the New York Times determining that Gore did not win the state....
In this regard you are. You both think Bush is stupid and hate the man, and by extension ridicule all who respect him, regardless of the validity of the arguments in his behalf.
You've proven your disdain and your Alinskyite ridicule on this thread, Buford. When it comes to President Bush, you're in solidarity with the left.
And no amount of continued name-calling changes what you've already revealed.
(btw, I know that you support our troops and appreciate that fact, but I also that you openly mocked the CinC that they respected and in many ways, loved, and I can never respect that).
Why not talk about what the candidates stand for, debate and say? Oh, I know, that does not promote the liberal agenda.
Obama wasn’t running against Bush in 08. He was running against McCain. And McCain ran a terrible campaign.
In all the years of it`s use by the "centrists" of the Republican party, what has this concept of "the lesser of two evils" done to stop, let alone reverse, the inexorable movement of America towards the left and socialism?
Now I guess having the gall to ask this some how makes me a Bush Hater and means I`m suffering from BDS, so while I`m at it let me say that given the desperate situation our Constitutional Republic is facing, I believe the ultimate test of whether a POTUS truly was a Conservative, I mean "when the rubber hits the road".
Did they reduce the size of Gubmint or grown it? Let me borrow, then modify a phrase from the left to add. If they have not reduced the Gubmint`s footprint, then they`re part of the problem and not part of the solution.
So, did Bush shrink or grow Gubmint? You tell me.
LLS
The association is relative. Ya notice, Bush isn't running 2012, yet the GOP is attempting to distance themselves from that disaster? Fact is, Bush was in it for 8 years, and was followed directly by a block Communist from Chicago...People were fed up, many conservatives refused to vote, as there was *nothing* left to vote for.
As a Bush bot I say W was one of the nation’s greatest presidents.
He is every bit as good as Reagan and arguably better.
Reagan did not reduce the deficit. Bush policies did lower the unemployment rate to 4.7 percent before Bush reactionaries conspired to give both houses of Congress to democrats.
At that moment, the nation’s peril and present crisis began and any honest political broker would admit it. Up to that point, the deficit was trending downward. TARP was good policy because it required government aid to be paid back with interest. And the money lent by the Bush administration has been paid off and it did not go to interests of the Republican party to pay off cronies.
Pro life justices were appointed to the Court.
Bush will be remembered as the courageous President who recognized the global civil war for what it was— the war on terror. Like Lincoln, he is despised and he worked with great authority.
I think the reactionary repudiation of Bush by reactionaries is kind of public obedience to Bush haters that own our public sphere. Reagan could be easily deconstructed in the political terminologies now required of Bush.
Nixon? Ford? Bush 1? Reagan? Eisenhower?
W is a great conservative president. My home page has 37 accomplishments. I think many more could be listed.
I would have real respect for any candidate who had the nerve to stand up to the 70% of this nation that hate President Bush. We were not worthy of the continuous respect he showed us as citizens.
“Make George Bush disappear? Impossible. Can’t be done.
“Now Bob Reich, if you give me enough lube...”
You talk about disappearing off the face of the globe, it's her.
I was there the day of her "no show" trial looking for explosive stories.
You see, between me and BufordP, we went to these goofy things to keep up on the current, current.
Heck, I remember one time (in line sight, not line), I could look up Hillary's dress (ugh) while she was signing books.
That's the Politico/MSM narrative. Bush looks like a knight in shining armor compared to Obama. They can't run on Obama's record, so they're trying to invoke the Bush boogeyman. It's not going to work. Everything has gone south since Obama took command.
as there was *nothing* left to vote for.
McCain rallied against Bush for 8 years. In '08 he ran as an anti-Bush liberal Republican and he lost.
And Bush ran as a compassionate conservative, congress became controlled by the Democratic mob, and he left the country in a disaster, only to be made worse by the Democrats, who took control during *Bush's* administration.
Bush wasn't running in '08, that was McCain. The same guy who campaigned against Obama by going around bashing Bush, praising Hillary, and telling people they had nothing to fear from an Obama presidency. Now he spends his time attacking GOP candidates, defending Obama's undefined war on Libya, and pretending enhanced interrogation had nothing to do with the killing of OBL.
Thats quite an endorsement. 8 years in the WH and millions in contributions and blood, sweat , and tears and thats the best one can say. .. Derbyshire was right.. what a waste of an opportunity..
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