I am not going to be “driven” to not support a candidate because others have something else in mind not corresponding to what I want.
That said, myopic, dishonest or whatever, especially with regard to W being ‘responsible’ for a financial meltdown is a matter of perspective. No, he’s not directly responsible, but there was a hell of a lot, I repeat a HELL of a lot he could have done. Just look back at the last six and a half years and see what Obama has done with no Congressional support.
I submit all the hijinks of Barney Frank and Maxine Waters on the finance committee even when they were giving Jaime Gorelick, Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson of Freddie and Fannie millions of dollars in bonuses when they FORCED banks to give away billions (trillions?)in worthless loans never to be paid back to people who had no business owning a home because they fit a Democrat profile.
Bush could have vetoed the spending bills - JUST LIKE OBAMA - take the bully pulpit and call these scoundrels out. BUSH DID NOTHING. He ‘respected’ the office too much to get down and dirty. He even ‘respected’ it enough to have not said a damn word about Obama in 6.5 years. But that didn’t stop him last week in trashing Cruz in Colorado for his doggone throwback brother.
Trust? It’s early to tell on Trump IMO. Trust? I ‘trusted’ Bush - TWICE. I got Obama and I got the DHS and the TSA and a devastated retirement fund because of it. Don’t even try to tell me he’s not culpable and sacrosanct. He’s just another Bush now.
I agree with most of what you’ve said, but the fact remains that Trump blames Bush for the 2008 meltdown, not the Democrats. Very bad judgment on Trump’s part.
And yeah, Bush (ANY Bush) is now dead to me. I voted for and supported him too and was fooled and let down by him AND his father before him. Never again.
We need to fully support Ted Cruz. I trust him and only him, at this point.