Posted on 05/10/2016 9:30:10 AM PDT by quesney
hink of other chronic medical diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, or cancer. The mind or body slowly fail, not typically in a linear fashion, but always in a long term unrelenting downward trajectory. There are improvements along the way, providing hope to those afflicted and their loved ones, but the hope is short lived, and the disease, despite a short pause, picks up where it left off.
The first sign of illness post Reagan was George HW Bush, in his acceptance speech at the RNC convention, calling for “a kinder and gentler nation.” Kinder and gentler than what? Obviously a repudiation of Reagan’s brand of conservatism, which candidate Bush once called “voodoo economics.” Perhaps HW looked back on eight years of Reagan and said to himself, “Bad news on the doorstep, I couldn’t take one more step.”
Next was George HW Bush’s famous pledge, “Read my lips. No new taxes.” Right out of the Republican Party playbook. Music to conservative ears. Cancer in remission. Until he turned his back on his pledge and raised taxes. Kicking the Republican Party in the teeth.
This paved the way for eight years of Bill and Hillary Clinton. “While the king was looking down, the jester stole his thorny crown.” King George HW Bush looked down with contempt at the Republican base and Bubba the jester not only stole the crown, but used Bush’s “no new taxes” words against him in the 1992 presidential campaign.
No conservative was George W Bush. Foolhardy and misguided military follies in the Middle East. Expansion of the federal education bureaucracy with Ted Kennedy via No Child Left Behind. Medicare Part D expansion increasing government control of healthcare. Promotion of open borders via amnesty. And a massive increase in government spending.
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Yeah it died in the last 2 budgets when the RINOs funded every god darn piece of obummer’s agenda!
Oh, I’m just as foul mouthed. And if I had his kind of bankroll I’d probably engage in the same kind of behavior. My comments are strictly that the Republican Party really can’t claim a lot of moral high ground at this time.
Yeah, when it comes time to save the country give me someone who can do it, profanity, multiple divorces and all. But if I had a son speaking about *ANY* woman the way he has, on the record and in public, they wouldn’t be sitting for a while and would darn well know what soap tasted like.
I do *NOT* find vulgar language refreshing; however hearing English Only would more than make up for it :-)
Take it from Pajamas Media
1986 - The Reagan Amnesty
How did that work out? If Reagan ran for governor of California in 2016, he would have zero chance of winning.
2005 - GWB nominated RINO Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court, and then he tried to stuff Amnesty down our throats.
Those two events ignited the Conservative Rebellion, and it began right here on the pages of Free Republic.
Freepers literally crushed that nomination and Amnesty, and nothing in the GOP has been the same since then.
I don’t blame Trump.
It goes back way further than that when Lincoln failed to keep us out of a war between American brothers, and called it a civil war.
yeah, too bad Abe forced those eleven states at gunpoint to secede from the Union, and then to fire on a Federal fort...
Newsflash for everyone, a party with a majority in Congress, state legislatures, and Governorships, cannot be called “dead”.
And we would be much better off today if Pat Buchanan had been nominated instead of GHW Bush.<<<<
I agree. I voted for Pat, but not enough people saw the wisdom in doing so.
Pat saw the trouble coming from way back, but he didn’t have the brass ones that Trump has. He did have some good policies for the nation though.
I remember Pat made a lot more sense than Bush ever did.
I didn’t recall the details of Pat’s position on Israel but I will always support Israel.
Other than that, Pat made so much more sense and put America first.
IMHO it died in 1996 when they had a vulnerable, corrupt, scandal-plagued POTUS ripe for the picking, and yet they nominated an ambulatory corpse because “it was his turn”.
It died under Nixon.
1980: Reagan’s Blunder: Choosing Bush
I agree that it was Bush 1 that started the downward slide. Instead of finishing off the Democrat party, they follow up the most successful conservative ever with some milquetoast, wobbly-need “moderate” that got railroaded by the dems.
“t was sick after Nixon but revived and healthy with Reagan. Bush murdered it.
1980: Reagan’s Blunder: Choosing Bush”
Yep, and it was Bush Jr, by way of Rove who embraced the lobbyists like GROVER NORQUIST and let them write his amnesty and fill his white house with their ISLAM loving cronies.
Who else were they going to nominate?
Who else could have won?
There isn't always a good candidate available and not every election is winnable.
When parties die, it's more because the people they do elect turn off the public in a big way, not because one losing candidate doesn't click with the people.
We’re all slaves now.
If Pat could have controlled his antisemitism he would have been President.
Then it died before it was even born.
Ike's GOP -- what was there for Nixon to kill off -- wasn't something conservative purists loved.
Indeed, I am a tax slave and have been all my life. I am tired of being swindled by the DC lawyers who have hijacked our personal healthcare and so many other freedoms. Imagine how much better off we would be if lawyers were restricted to serving only in the judicial branch of government. Think about it.
Maybe it would have been better for the Democrats to be holding the bag after 9/11. There would have been NO way to blame it on Republicans, and it’s not like the end result could have been worse - a fiasco of a war, money and blood spilled to little avail, WMD’s spirited away. Regardless of the bravery of our soldiers the Bush follow through was as bad as deliberate Democrat skullduggery could have been.
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