Posted on 05/31/2012 7:38:41 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
John Bolton, Mr Bush's ambassador to the United Nations, said it would not be helpful for the Republicans to more vigorously defend the former president's record, which Democrats have sharply criticised.
Mr Bolton urged Mitt Romney, the party's nominee to face Mr Obama in November, to focus on the future and resist arguing over whether their last president left behind "a big mess or a little mess".
His remarks came as Mr Bush prepared to return to the White House for only the second time since leaving office in January 2009, for the unveiling of his official portrait.
"I think people would agree with Obama that he was left with a mess," Mr Bolton told The Daily Telegraph.
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Agree on this. Since 1988, the American voters have elected nothing but substandard politicians for President.
Bolton is only partially correct; he should have expanded on that blanket statement to put the real blame where it lies; the large government mentality. These political blame-game comments are NOT at all helpful, if we want to rid ourselves of the RaceMaxist and the wholly destructive big government albatross.
More harm than good, Bolton, by running your mouth for the Communitst Media.
If Obama insists, Romney could point out all the ways in which the stagflation economy Reagan inherited from Carter was far worse.
And then point out that Reagan won reelection because he fixed the problems, as he was elected to do.
Reagan didn't have to run for reelection by citing Carter's record.
Every President says this.
Bravo! Wouldn’t hire the lazy, affirmative action, community organizer to run a lemonade stand.
Knowing that would be above his pay grade and also his ability.
At least Bush was better than a despicable poser. Could you possible set the bar any lower?
Yes. Bush had good intentions. But in the real world, intentions don't matter. It's results that matter. And as you said, Bush didn't get the job done.
Bush created two more Vietnams under his watch. Inexcusable. And the radical muslims are today bolder than ever. Why? Because Bush did not destroy them the way FDR destroyed the fascists. FDR was weak in regards to Stalin, but that's another story. FDR completely destroyed the fascists. Were there any armed nazi units running around, anywhere, after 1945? No! Bush should have followed that example, but didn't.
On domestic issues, I don't buy the excuse that the Dem's controlled Congress. Bush had the veto pen.
Sorry for the rant. But Bush could have accomplished so very much. Instead he broke the country, and I don't mean just financially.
I really wish the GOP would grow a ball and propose the repeal of the CRA. And when *they* inevitably brandish the "R" word in response, tell them to go f*** themselves: we're doing it anyway.
| New Hampshire Republican primary, January 10, 2012[29][30] | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Actual delegate count | ||
| Bound | Unbound | Total | |||
| Mitt Romney | 97,591 | 39.28% | - | - | 12 |
| Ron Paul | 56,872 | 22.89% | - | - | 5 |
| Jon Huntsman | 41,964 | 16.89% | - | - | 3 |
| Rick Santorum | 23,432 | 9.43% | - | - | 0 |
| Newt Gingrich | 23,421 | 9.43% | - | - | 0 |
| Rick Perry | 1,764 | 0.71% | - | - | 0 |
| Buddy Roemer | 950 | 0.38% | - | - | 0 |
| Michele Bachmann (withdrawn) | 350 | 0.14% | - | - | 0 |
| Fred Karger | 345 | 0.14% | - | - | 0 |
| Barack Obama (write-in) | 285 | 0.11% | - | - | 0 |
| Kevin Rubash | 250 | 0.10% | - | - | 0 |
| Gary Johnson (withdrawn) | 181 | 0.07% | - | - | 0 |
| Herman Cain (withdrawn) | 161 | 0.06% | - | - | 0 |
| Jeff Lawman | 119 | 0.05% | - | - | 0 |
| Chris Hill | 108 | 0.04% | - | - | 0 |
| Benjamin Linn | 83 | 0.03% | - | - | 0 |
| Michael Meehan | 54 | 0.02% | - | - | 0 |
| Keith Drummond | 42 | 0.02% | - | - | 0 |
| Rickey Story | 42 | 0.02% | - | - | 0 |
| Bear Betzler | 29 | 0.01% | - | - | 0 |
| Joe Robinson | 25 | 0.01% | - | - | 0 |
| Stewart Greenleaf | 24 | 0.01% | - | - | 0 |
| Donald Trump (write-in) | 24 | 0.01% | - | - | 0 |
| Sarah Palin (write-in) | 23 | 0.01% | - | - | 0 |
| Mark Callahan | 20 | 0.01% | - | - | 0 |
| Andy Martin | 19 | 0.01% | - | - | 0 |
| Linden Swift | 18 | 0.01% | - | - | 0 |
| Tim Brewer | 15 | 0.01% | - | - | 0 |
| Vern Wuensche | 15 | 0.01% | - | - | 0 |
| L. John Davis | 14 | 0.01% | - | - | 0 |
| Randy Crow | 12 | 0.00% | - | - | 0 |
| Vermin Supreme (write-in) | 4 | 0.00% | - | - | 0 |
| James Vestermark | 3 | 0.00% | - | - | 0 |
| Hugh Cort | 3 | 0.00% | - | - | 0 |
| Other Write-ins[31] | 213 | 0.09% | - | - | 0 |
| Unpledged delegates: | - | - | 0 | ||
| Total: | 248,475 | 100.00% | - | - | 20 |
it ain’t what you get, it’s what you do with it.
jimmy carter left reagan a worse mess, and look what reagan did with it.
compare that with what obama has done and is doing...
Yep. I agree. However there are degrees of bad. I just wouldn’t fall for leftist tactics to attack and focus on imperfections of republicans. The focus should be on obama. Relatively speaking the economy was in far better shape under bush.
I think it is time for the GOP to do away with the primaries and go back to the “smokey back room” to decide which candidate to run.
All Presidents are elected by an uncommitted electorate who will vote for the most handsome, Presidential looking man, not the most qualified.
The house-of-cards Clinton economy was built upon tech/housing bubbles and Madoff-like ponzi schemes. America became nothing but a den of thieves, creating shysters on every corner from wall street to main street. The Clintonites were nothing more than grifters, except they set up their operations to steal from everyone...good or bad, unfortunately many outside of the Clinton clan joined in on the greed and selfishness of the 90's.
Every crisis since(nature or man-made)was an opportunity for some shyster(s)to rip off government coffers/innocent bystanders...from Katrina to 911.
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste"...and the leeches didn't.
It's what happens when a people turn to Gov. for all the answers and take on no responsibilities themselves. If it continues unabated...well, there's a word for it, anarchy.
America's future depends on how much of this cancer has, or will continue to spread...and what will be done to stop it. With so many on the Gov. dole(in one way or the other), I don't see much "hope/change"...just a festering.
The Republican Congress DID nearly balance the budget with the forebearance of Clinton.
But I agree that the glow coming off the economy in his term was more from a fever than robust health.
The media successfully “borked” W
How? Were they supposed to not report on the biggest recession since the Great Depression? Bush presided over a massive housing bubble - fueled by the easy lending policies for low incomes that he and Rove promoted - and when the bubble burst, the economy tanked. And you’re saying it’s the media’s fault, not Bush’s?
I don’t like the liberal media either, but Reagan had a liberal media too, and that didn’t keep him from being a successful and popular president.
Many presidents were failures at one thing or another during their term. However, Obama has failed at everything he has tried except for his attempt to destroy this nation and its credibility worldwide. At that he has been a resounding success.
Truth be told, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd and Frank left the mess and Obama doubled down on it.
I have never heard him specify, in his opinion, what got us into this mess
That’s because Bush was following liberal policies, like easy lending for low income homebuyers. Bush’s liberalism ran us into the ditch, so Obama can’t get too specific in criticism policies he, as a liberal like Bush, supported.
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