Now looking back, in my humble opinion, GWB WAS the bumbling, lying, drunk, of an idiot that everyone in the press said he was. He is the first ex-president that I can remember that has simply dropped off the face of the earth after he left office. You never see him, never hear from him, nothing. He has left the building, never to be heard from again. Strange.
I do think he stopped drinking, and I don’t think he was stupid at all.
I think this was intentional, though.
The only thing that makes sense to me is that the establishment had a political objective. Assuming that, and seeing how this was the beginning of the ‘liar bush’ talking point that ruined republican election hopes, then that leads me to think republican loss was desired.
First? Like pretty much everyone but Clinton, and after a delay, Carter?
He has made some public appearances. But he doesn’t like the limelight. He feels like he had his place in the sun. He also felt that he shouldn’t publicly criticize the current administration. Many people see this as being classy.
We only heard from Ford at Convention time where he was King RINO actually Ford was "W"s mentor which may explain a a lot. Bush was not the Texan Conservative Republicans and media portrayed him to be. The Bush family is Northeast seaboard Ivy League LIBERAL.
"W" mostly told the truth but people didn't want to hear it. He said he and Gore were not that far apart on most issues and indeed they really weren't. He put a Liberal RINO in as head of the EPA for starters. A past failed Sec of Defense as well. The one who started us into the hollow Carter years. What was already a mess grew worse under Carter.
The Bush family politics is Elitist Liberal. They have little use for Conservatives except election time. They in general have more in common with Clinton & even Obama policies than Reagan.
"W" should have focused less on his trade deals likely spawned from family being tied too the US Chamber Of Commerce. I don't think he knew what he was really doing in Iraq and the advisers he had was from the Nixon/Ford years so how was there going to be a success? Thus what should have been a one year mission became bogged down by the same issues of previous post WW2 wars.
W was way too Saudi friendly when he should have been focusing all efforts on getting us away from dependence on foreign policy. With tow GOP Houses there was no excuse. There was no excuse none whatsoever for not building up our military again. That did not happen either. End Troops Strength Numbers tell the story. But this was the same issues from Poppy - Obama. Obama panders to M.E. even more so.
W does have a book out evidently I saw it at Wally World yesterday. I don't believe the Bush family has that many complaints about Obama policy. They may not like him personally but that's about the extent of it. I doubt W was drinking or drugging. He just surrounded himself in Yes Men Idiots.