I don’t blame GW one bit, he doesn’t owe anyone anything, most of all the GOP that didn’t have his back when he needed it the most.
GOP didnt like Bush..I am guessing they told him butt out as did McPain in the last election. the party didnt really support him anyway.
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Romney, and the GOP-e, campaigned as moderates and that turned-off a large number of the conservative/TEA Party base.
Almost certainly not GW's choice. He was so successfully demonized by the D's that it was probably decided by the Republican establishment the his involvement would be a negative.
GW saw the writing on the wall after the 2004 election. He was going to ‘spend his capital’ on entitlement reform. It was an idea whose time had come, but they left him at the alter. Then came the 2006, Nancy and Harry debacle. The rest as they say is history. He owes no one anything.
> The trouble is talk radio and Fox only reach about 20 million people during a week - and most of them are already in the conservative Republican choir.
True. Please grasp this.
> Last I checked, 121 million Americans voted on Election Day. That left us Republicans with 101 million people who still needed to hear our message about who’s really to blame for the broken economy of 2008 to 2012.
Rush and Fox and conservative media provide only a small fraction of the worldview Middle America receives passively from hourly radio newscasts providing network and AP feeds, the thousands of local newspapers providing AP feeds, the hundreds of local TV stations providing network feeds, Yahoo internet news providing AP feeds, and the various other sources of Progressive worldview beaming liberalism to passive Middle America.
Take down the several wire services and we take down the Progressive movement.
Damned if you do... damned if you don’t. Not fair to W.
Michael Reagan is lashing out in blind rage.
But the author makes an excellent point. While president Bush allowed the leftists to overwhelmingly fill the vacuum by NEVER responding to the increasingly shrill and absurd caterwauling. This clearly damaged Bush, Conservatives, and the Republican brand. Silence equaled acceptance of the left’s false narrative.
Fast forward. Bush has some residual responsibility to the GOP and Conservatives to not allow the leftists to continue to fill the vacuum with ongoing lies about his (our) record. Bush ongoing silence is a measure of disrespect for all of us who fought for him and defended him, and he continue to refuse to defend himself, and by extension, us!
What a crock! Do you really think if Bush was asked to support somebody, that he would have declined? If he was not visibly supporting somebody, that most likely is because they did not want his support. Their loss, not his problem.
Please.
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) create policy and long-term strategy, not politicians.
GWB did their bidding while in the WH, though, like many, the extent to which the U.S. government does the bidding of NGOs may actually escape him. He may well not think of himself as a virtual employee of elitists.
The only difference between Obama and GWB is that Obama’s NGO backers are aligned with the New Left, which GWB’s would be more aligned to generic academic and financial. However, the NGO universe is such a heaping, steaming, incestuous pile of pooh that is is no doubt hard to tell who is actually coming up with what ideas.
Every time a President gets information from an “expert”, if that person has a college degree they are most certainly receiving outlooks that are in line with NGO strategies.
Politicians, all their staffs, consultants, etc., are merely the point where the cast of characters in political theatre intersects with NGOs representing “interests”, whether they be sovereign wealth funds, breast cancer research scams, jealous communist hacks, etc.
Catch my next NGO post...
This is one of the most ridiculous articles I have ever read.
Bush would have immensely hurt the cause. I love the guy despite some of his failings, but it would have been a disaster.
It would not matter how much he explained what he did....it would have been made WORSE, NOT BETTER by the Obama spin-meisters and media.
He was right to stay out of the spotlight.
He most likely was told to stay the hell away by GOP elitists and Romney campaign staff................
I have to disagree with Michael Reagan on this one.
George Bush left the political stage 4 years ago. And he has earned his privacy. Any attempt he would have made to support Romney openly, such as at the convention would have been immediately attacked. He devoted 8 years of his life as President. He made some great choices..and some not so great ones. He fought to reform Social Security...and was roundly trounced by the entrenched.
The Left has devolved into a vicious horde. it wouldn’t have done Romney any good...I can almost see the ads now. And with the ‘National Enquirer’ mentaility of a huge segment of the voting public, it would have been an easy sell.
No, George Bush is spending his time wisely these days...and devotes a large portion of that to Wounded Warriors that he has never forgotten.
They didn’t invote Sarah Palin to the convention, either. The GOP needs a housecleaning.
I believe G.W. was gently and politely askedNOT to attend the GOP convention.
I voted for W twice, but we can all agree W begat Obama.
He would not defend his record and especially the war. He should be out there telling why the country needs his tavx cuts back then and we need them more now.
It’s all one big Karl Rove plot.