[svcw]

Good.
Maybe some people (even those on FR) will realize he was/is not what they tried to make him.

[RoosterRedux]

W is a good man, but he misled the country about Islam. It is not a religion of peace. I know he has many old family friends from Saudi Arabia...but Islam is not a religion of peace.

He needs to tell us the truth. The Country still listens to him...he needs to come clean.

[skeeter]

I harbor no ill will towards W - I wish the man all the best.

But I ain't gonna get all sentimental & pine for him, either.

[Third Person]

No more Bushes.

[Doogle]

..this along with the Salon article earlier makes me feel as though the libtards expect Odungo to take a major hit...Benghazi? ....the Boston Saudi?....Fast and Furious?

[Christie at the beach]

The media crucified him along with the democrats. Many of his own party picked his bones. I am done with bashing him. He did things I could not stand but I rather had him in place than Al Gore or John Kerry. Between him and Obama, I would take him back tonight because I know he loves this country. Obama, don't trust him.

[BenLurkin]

No child left behind Islam is the religion of peace is back. Oh joy.

[yongin]

I voted for Bush. I would do so again given the alternatives of Al Gore and John Kerry. However, his second term was horrible for many reasons. If like Duyba or not, he paved the way for Obama.

[Lucky9teen]

While he did enact some things that I fully disagree with (i.e., Patriot Act, No Child Left Behind, etc) I still like Bush and believe his heart was in the right place and that he did TRY to at least keep America safe and on the right track.

Yes, some of his policies did help the Progressive movement gain more of a foothold and did grow the government, but I know when I looked at him, and heard him speak, that he loved this country, and he loved and honored our military. I tend to believe a lot of the bad stuff he did, was more because he wasn't strong enough to hold the line, and he gave in to the pressure of the Democrats (who had control when things started going bad), but that's just my opinion.

GW and Laura had CLASS and dignity and they held the office of Presidency with honor. Comparing him to Obama and his mooch of a wife, is like comparing a cheesecake to a pile of crap. There's a HUGH difference.

[tomkat]

Ø’s RCP average is a tad over 49 percent

             

[NoLibZone]

How do you guys feel about the TSA?

Or about the DHS?

[MinorityRepublican]

President George W. Bush, with Gen. David Petraeus and Adm. William Fallon, visit Anbar province in Iraq in September 2007.

[Jane Long]

I supported him and continue to be on his mailing list. I was taken aback when I read this, from an interview with him in this past weekend's Parade interview, though...

"And so yes, my administration and President Obama's administration have gone on the offense against people who would do us harm. The ultimate way for there to be peace however, is for freedom to take root, democracy to take root, where governments are decided by the will of the people. And that's beginning to happen as a result of the Arab Spring".

Arab Spring has ushered in the MB. Ask the women of these countries about democracy.

[lonestar67]

Bush hate is a mental illness. He is a great man and was a great president.

[RipSawyer]

Regardless of what low opinion anyone may hold of George W. Bush, the idea that Obama would be an improvement was insane. Anyone who thought that even back in 2007 was simply not looking at reality. Obama’s election was surely a case of national mass hysteria.

[JohnPDuncan]

As a fiscal hawk and someone who admires Calvin Coolidge, Eisenhower and Reagan I find Bush’s presidency hard to swallow.

He started running deficits from 2002, he started 2 wars that have lasted a decade or more, he expanded social programs and he bailed out Wall Street.

He rejected limited government for some bizarre mix of corporatism, expanding government and a neocon foreign policy that wishes to “spread democracy” to barbaric countries where democracy is alien.

When the history books are written i’ve no doubt he will be seen as a terrible president and i’m relieved he’s gone.

Not that Obama is better but i’m happy that Bush doesn’t define conservatism any more because it’s a kind of conservatism I reject and always have.

Also what’s with taking his approval rating? He’s never going to run for anything again.

This Bush nostalgia is quite frankly sickening and we need to look to new leaders like Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Ted Cruz etc. i.e people who actually believe in limiting government and want to “shut down” parts of the Federal government not expand them like Bush did.

[Navy Patriot]

President G. W. Bush is not a Conservative, even though he says so occasionally.

He is compassionate, and undoubtedly loves America, was overly generous with taxpayer money and generous with his own. He will defend America, personally if necessary. He has reasonably good tax policy and lots of class.

He is honest and worthy but not tough enough to effectively deal with Marxist DemoRats.

[Sarajevo]

P*ss on Bush. He stripped us of 4th Amendment rights through the "Patriot Act", and saddled the country with such laudable agencies as DHS and TSA.
It's because of Bush that we have the current chump in the WH.

[spit]

[KGeorge]

No one is perfect, but it took 0bama to get people to appreciate GWB for who he was & put him in perspective. He grew on me as time went on. Oh hell yes, I miss him. More than I ever imagined I could.

He may have been terribly misguided at times, but he was a *decent* man. I was never embarrassed that he was our president (or Laura our first lady).

[Hostage]

This is the Washington Post setting the stage for Jeb Bush in 2016. Jeb Bush, a sure-fired RINO loser to just about anything the DNC will put up.