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So what we are left with is the conclusion that Trump attacked Bush from the left... for no other reason than that he childishly enjoys getting a reaction out of Jeb Bush. in and God knows I have no Donald Trump fan but I am a fan of reasonableness and logic and I am willing to defend those concepts even at the cost of defending Donald Trump. Trump was against the Iraq war from the get-go and Trump was right and George Bush was wrong, as was I. Trump clearly believes in a minimalist foreign policy of intervention but with a strong military which I suppose he would compare to Ronald Reagan or with Teddy Roosevelt's walk softly and carry a big stick approach.

I think Trump also disdains a loser and he regards the Bushes as losers, not in winning elections, of course, but in their success or lack of it in governing. The disaster in Iraq is of a piece with one disaster after another in the Bush administration from Iraq to Katrina to The Great Recession and Trump is simply not going to allow any Bush to get away with saying that he kept us safe when in fact 9/11 occurred on George Bush's watch. So the ineptitude compounds in Trump's eyes: Bush through his myopia on immigration opened the gates for the 9/11 terrorists, and that mistake propelled him into a second mistake, the invasion of Iraq.

Trump might be contemplating a general election campaign in which he is fully divested of any Bush taint. Donald Trump will not pay the electoral price for George Bush's ineptitude. This is a perfectly reasonable election strategy to pursue and it is not gratuitous and it certainly is not "childish."

Trump might be contemplating a general election campaign in which he is fully divested of any Bush taint. Donald Trump will not pay the electoral price for George Bush’s ineptitude. This is a perfectly reasonable election strategy to pursue and it is not gratuitous and it certainly is not “childish.”

Thank you. I realize you are not a Trump supporter so thank you all the more, from someone who is, and someone who has always respected you.

I have been saying from the very beginning of this issue of “9/11 on Bush’s watch” that this is general election strategy on Trump’s part.

I also see it as good primary politics, getting Jeb to defend George.

...So the ineptitude compounds in Trump's eyes: Bush through his myopia on immigration opened the gates for the 9/11 terrorists, and that mistake propelled him into a second mistake, the invasion of Iraq."...

I must part company with you here. You're shoehorning your Trump divining into a truncated time frame.

It doesn't compute.

But beyond this latest boast?

Then what?

Eminent domain?

Universal Healthcare?

Higher Taxes?

Union shops flourish?

Bigger government?

What?