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To: UriÂ’el-2012

“In 1992 Clinton was more conservative than GHW Bush.”

That’s not true at all. Clinton may have run as a semi-conservative to get elected, but once inaugurated, the first thing he tried to do was institute gays in the military. Then his first major policy initiative (after signing into law the largest tax increase in U.S. history up to that point) was HillaryCare(essentially a duplicate of Obamacare).

The reality is that it’s the fact that Clinton lurched so far left in 93-94 that lead to the GOP wipeout in the 94 elections. After those elections, Clinton wisely took Dick Morris’ advice and triangulated-claiming GOP initiatives like Welfare Reform for his own. But he never would have pushed for these with a Dem Congress.

I think people have hazy memories of how liberal Clinton was (especially at the beginning of his first term) because Obama is such a radical Marxist he makes Clinton look like Reagan. Clinton was above anything else a narcissist and willing to take whatever position he needed to maintain personal popularity. This caused him to take a few conservative positions, but he certainly was not more conservative than George HW Bush.


83 posted on 11/01/2011 9:56:45 PM PDT by lquist1
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To: lquist1

Bill Clinton was a serial rapist and worse and got clean away with it.


85 posted on 11/01/2011 10:00:27 PM PDT by txhurl (Did you want to talk or fish? Or feed the fish?)
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Hillarycare, Gun bans, tax increases, Waco, Janet Reno, Jamie Gorelick and Eric Holder. Clinton was about power. His ideology was being president. Dangerous man.
97 posted on 11/01/2011 10:10:19 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Anybody but Romney or Obama)
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