Posted on 12/22/2011 3:18:16 AM PST by markomalley
And bush did nothing but pile on for 8 years are horrible policies. GWB was a disaster for the GOP.
This article borders on insanity.
GWB was the most conservative candidate that we could possibly have gotten elected in 2000. At that, he just squeaked in.
Under Bush, we added seats in Congress in 2002 and 2004, and took over the Senate for the first time in decades.
Although he backed some moderate candidates over the years, he backed far more conservative ones.
NCLB and the Medicare Part D were campaign promises he kept. Gingrich supported both of them, and still does. NCLB improved our kids education...test scores prove that, and Medicare Part D has come in way below projected costs.
He fought the EPA tooth and toenail (all the way to the Supreme Court) over CO2, while opening millions of acres of federal land to mining and oil exploration.
He cut everyone’s income taxes, and never allowed them to be raised.
He won the war in Iraq, broke Al-Qaeda, and relegated Osama to a hell hole in Pakistan.
He held the line on stem cell research, cloning, and abortion for both terms.
These are just a few of GWB’s accomplishments....
The truth is that anti-illegal “conservatives” (mostly paultards) threw him and the Republicans under the bus over comprehensive immigration reform and handed our nation to Pelosi, Reid, and Obama. They thought it was worth it, I didn’t and pointed it out here repeatedly.
Now, we are saddled with a bunch of candidates that don’t hold a candle to GWB in honesty, integrity, or conservative principles. Our government is running deficits three times larger than anything GWB ever had, our foreign policy is in shambles, our economy is in shambles.
George W. Bush is not responsible for the stupidity of the entire nation, especially three years after he left office.
Ya’ll can flame me all you want to, but fortunately, I’ve got to get ready for work. I don’t really care, recent months have shown how infested with Paultards (idiots) FR truly is.
Although I told Jim I wouldn’t bother FR again, I just can’t stand to see an honest, Christian, conservative man like GWB unfairly blamed for the godawful mess we are in now.
Sorry Jim...
W's administration wasn't a complete failure (good riddance Old Shoe), but its catastrophic economic legacy is the demoralized result of The Party (tm) being infested with interior decorating rainbow RINO-crats who game the system for their own progressive/occult activist causes --instead of conserving the values this Republic was founded upon.
Why not? omama, the msm, and the Democrat Party [same inity, dirrerent titles] blame him for everything else. What is one more thing?
“So should conservatives now accept a centrist or establishment candidate ?”
The answer from the”Republican inside-the-beltway Establishment” is Both. In other words, Mitt.
This article isn't bashing Bush. Its an honest appraisal of what went horribly wrong from 2001 through 2006 when the Republicans were in control and could have made a difference. The issue that many conservatives still don't want to face is that Bush did not want to cut spending. It wasn't the media, it wasn't the Democrats, it was Bush. He is a Rockefeller Republican just like his father. They want increased spending, just on different things than the Dems. That is why government grew under Bush and the Republican Congress.
Santorum's answer about not having back up is weak and pathetic. Santorum really wasn't a small government conservative either. He was good on social issues but never was a leader when it came to shrinking government and he has a huge protectionist streak in him. He played to his Pennsylvania constituency -- union and older people.
The result of Bush and the Republican leadership at the time was a disaster. And, while I don't support Newt Gingrich, really points out how effective Newt was as a small government conservative. When was the last time we had a budget that was heading toward balance? When Newt was effectively in charge of Congress. Once he got booted out, the GOP turned into pigs at the trough.
Well Santorum's got his warts and occasionally sticks his foot in his mouth, but two things happened to him that pretty much ruined him:
1) Bush and Rove broke his arm to get his endorsement of Specter in 2004. Rural Pennsylvania Conservatives stayed home in droves because of it and have never forgiven him (even though Toomey has proven to be only marginally better).
2) Rahm Emmanuel and the other DNC strategists specifically targeted his seat for the 2006 Rat takeover of Congress and to pave the way for Hillary in 2008. The tactics and strategy they used was pure Alinksy, and both Santorum and the GOP was wholly unprepared for it.
I don’t fault him for Specter and it wasn’t pressure from Bush that got him to endorse Specter. Specter endorsed and campaigned for Santorm so Rick returned the favor. I don’t mind that. Its his record of Big Government Conservatism that I don’t like. By the way, I liked and voted for him in PA. I just don’t think he is the best candidate for president.
“The media has been running this country...”
The national media crawled into my state to trash every conservative for months and praise every rat.
After the 2010 election, every rat and was thrown out of every state office. Every rat congressman, except one, was tossed out. There’s not one rat in any state office. Both state houses are conservative. Two RINOs were beat in the primary and replaced with Tea Party candidates.
The media does not run this part of the country.
I love George W. Bush but I wish he had replaced Dick Cheney (who I also love) with a conservative for his race against Kerry. Had that happened we would be been grooming the next President. Instead we got zerobama.
So A.Hun just tell me EXACTALLY WHAT both Bushes(41/43) did did to advance the cause of BOTH The Republican Party AND/OR Conservatism? Cite Examples.
The MSM is a monopoly and they are biased to the core. Because they are a monopoly they ARE NOT a reflection of their audience, they don't have to be. Most of the sheeple are not leftist trained in the Red Ivy League.
You know what, no. This field is its own worst enemy.
Me too, Glock, one of the worst things that happened was the defeat of Clayton Williams for governor in 1990; it led four years later to the rise of GWB, who otherwise would have had no empty seat to pursue. An empty suit, yes, but no empty seat would have been available had there been a successful Governor Williams seeking reelection. Of course, Claytie may have self-destructed too, considering his problem with foot-in-mouth- disease.
Another problem we have is that sheeple don’t know they are sheeple. They are too confused and too uninformed to separate chaff from wheat.
“I mostly blame the media for what happened under Bush.”
Certainly the media shares blame. But I was in the party structure during the Bush years. The White House systematically excluded conservatives and did it’s best to make sure they did not win primaries. This was true at the state and federal levels. The result is that the R’s who are “on deck” do not include many conservatives. There is much truth to this article.
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