Posted on 11/15/2012 7:41:40 AM PST by Kaslin
That’s my feeling, too.
Plus the left has demonized him so much that his appearance would probably not have been helpful.
The GOP including Romney have wanted to distance themselves from GW. They have yet to offer any full-throated defense of anything he did.
He did them a favor and stayed away.
That is what Romney should have said.
This whole article is whacked out. The GOP-e kept Bush at bay. Just like they kept Palin at bay and the tea Party at bay.
The GOP-e said let them take care of it and you all keep out of it.
The GOP-e were warned over and over during the primaries, but still prevailed. They got their way and what happened was exactly what they were told would happen.
Now they blame vote fraud. Other candidates. Now, GW.
Here is what Romney supporters were saying when Free Republic was saying no to Romney:
From Committed - Mitt Romney Central, Oct 2011.
The Committed name is a bit ironic today. They should have been committed.
Michael Reagan wrote this? How disgusting!!
Michael Reagan is nothing more than a ‘wanna be’.
Something very weird about his passivity, exceeding the patrician aloofness of his father who failed to rebut or put any end to stupid scandalous democrat behavior
Yes Bush 41 gave us Bill Clinton and the sordid moral degradation of the US presidency
GWB brought us the unconstitutionally installed emotionally disturbed obama, a black marxist ideologue who has contempt or hatred for 2/3 of the American people and a rasist hatred for all our institutions that he intends to “remake”
I believe the Bushes are good man but evil succeeds when good men do nothing
But his silence kinda left em flapping in the wind for want of a point to rally around.
So he basically surrendered the field. Not helpful.
I disagree with Michael on this one.
IMO W lost interest in the job after Saddam Hussein was gone.
Finally resolving the Gulf War was his administration's reason d etre. It explains alot of things.
The Bush family needs to stay as far from politics as possible. They have caused massive damage to this country. Hoover II can’t speak anyway so why would one lament his absence from the election?
If you can’t see that a flawed mitt romney was preferable to a hardcore marxist america hating kenyan the problem isn’t the GOP. It’s you. The same goes for anybody else that didn’t vote GOP in this last election to remove the kenyan.
Summed it up, I do believe.
Both G.W. and G.H.W. have had a serious and strong belief that a former President should be retired from politics for the most part. I think the one area where they both shied away from that the most was at both conventions nominating G.W. Bush; his parents made an appearance - no speeches, just an appearance. Yes, when asked by any reporter, G.W.s parents spoke approvingly of and in support of their son. But, that was as far as it went (I think) and they did not campaign for him (if my memory is right).
I think that had G.H.W. and G.W. not been related, and still had their same sentiments about the role of former Presidents, I don’t think G.H.W would have been at G.W.s conventions. Because they were related, for them, it was not so much a former-current President relationship, as much as a father-son relationship. In other ways, they have both led very private lives since the presidency and askewing any very political roles.
Have you ever noticed that the behavior of the GOP-e has mirrored -- or vice-versa -- the absolutely witless, feckless, listless behavior of so-called Speaker Denny Hastert?
He let the queer pederast Rep. Mark Foley go on and on with his illicit communications until Nancy and Harry were ready to "out" him to suppress GOP turnout in 2006. He turned a blind eye to grafters and porkers and smalltime crooks in the GOP House, and the Party paid for it by losing the Speaker's gavel to Red Nancy Pelosi and the evil Rahm Emanuel.
So why does the GOP leadership so emulate the disastrous Hastert in their politics and their leadership style, or lack of it? About all they're good at is piking conservatives in the back.
1. Conservatives did undervote and were no-shows, McCain got 1,000,000 more votes than Romney did. Conservatives warned the RiNO's that this would happen if they dissed conservatives and pushed them away. The RiNO's and Romney did this on purpose, and not entirely for "move to the middle" electoral purposes.
2. Romney did consistently, in fine Rovian style, fail to respond to attacks by Dems, even when he had money. Dems timed the Bain attacks for when they knew he would be low on cash after the primaries, and their attacks worked because Romney didn't respond, when voters first began paying attention leading up to the conventions.
This is a RiNO/RNC/Yacht Club failure with a capital F, their fourth since 1992. They failed with Bush 41, Dole, McCain, and now Romney. Their pattern of failure is consistent and predictable, making life easy for people like James Carville and David Plouffe.
Slapping people around and then complaining when they don't show at the dance on their own, isn't a credible technique for Republican victory, and nobody but a dolt will believe that complaint now. The RiNO's are done, stick a fork in 'em.
Romney and the GOP did NOT want W at the convention and didn't invite him.
Michael, you are stuck on stupid with this article.
Stupid article.
Romney was so cowed by Obama that he didn’t want to be associated with Bush.
Which was a stupid move.
I wish we had W back.
Excellent post. I agree with all you said.
I don’t see how W is responsible.Of course a good percentage of voters think he’s responsible for “The Great Recession” but we know that the Community Reinvestment Act and Frank-Dodd is the cause and that W just happened to be in charge when the stuff hit the fan.Ten bucks says that Romney didn’t want W’s (public) endorsement,so that can’t be a factor.He may,or may not,have wanted Palin’s endorsement..if not it would have been because the Lamestream Media has done such an effective job on her.
For at least two years before the Iraq surge, W's public and political effort to be a war leader were beyond pitiful, and almost invisible.
W allowed the anti-war, GOP hating, Hard Left MSM to literally dictate a false and hopeless perception of how things were going, and that seriously impacted GOP election results in 2006.
W's inexcusable silence also motivated our Islamic enemies to continue fighting, which cost the lives of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of American soldiers.
The “strong silent war leader” may be a hero in dictatorships or works of fiction.
But in a free country where the Hard Left MSM sets the agenda and the terms of debate, the silence of George W. Bush has been an unmitigated catastrophe.
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