Posted on 12/02/2018 11:27:57 PM PST by Kaslin
The death of President George H. W. Bush provided liberals and their Fredocon houseboys yet another opportunity to lament the fact that all Republicans aren’t dead. Their feigned amnesia about what libs were saying while Bush 41 was still in the arena, and their latest hack attempt to tsk tsk tsk tsk about how the Bad Orange Man isn’t like [Insert Name of Dead Republican Here] serves to justify the prophylactic cynicism that we Normals should strive to cultivate.
President Bush was an imperfect man and a frustration to hardcore conservatives like me, but he was also a WW II hero and patriot, and he was my Commander-In-Chief when I went to war for the first time. I knew he would stand behind my troops and he did, and the good things I have to say about him on the occasion of his passing are proper and sincere. Patriot, war hero and my commander: that is how I choose to remember him.
The difference is that when conservatives like us focus on his positives, we are not trying to exploit his passing to score cheap points on the present president. Liberals are. They hated Bush 41 with a cold fury. Now, most of the juice box nimrods on social media or piping up on MSNBC were maybe three years old when he was the prezzy, so maybe they don’t remember that the liberals slimed him mercilessly. From the grocery scanner lie to the Willie Horton racism lie, to the wimp lie, it was all lies, all the time. In fact, even today, some libs are off-message and celebrating on Twitter.
Shhhh. You’re supposed to be pretending to revere him!
They did it with John McCain too, through his funeral and its endless sequels. “If only the Republican Party were dominated by a Republican like [Insert Name of Dead Republican Here] instead of that awful, awful Trump!” they sobbed as they shed their crock-adile tears, because it was a crock. There’s never going to be a Republican with a pulse who is not Der Führer reborn. Not McCain. Not Mitt. Not Bush 1.0 or 2.0. And Jeb!, had he become 3.0, would have been Hitler too.
Tell me that’s not so. Come on. Try.
Nope. You failed.
To understand what liberals are doing when they hold up Bush 41 (or any other past Republican) as a model for the GOP’s future, we need to confront his flaws. None of this assessment is intended disrespectfully – his service outshines the things that we conservatives found frustrating. But you cannot understand why the left is seeking to exploit him without understanding why the left prefers him to Trump. Bush 41 was a good guy, and his flaw is that he thought other members of the ruling class were good guys too, which is why he never suspected that that his “friends” were not his friends. He was too deeply imbedded in the elite, too bought-into the establishment.
Bush 41 was an Establishment Republican, and he was therefore deeply suspicious of conservatism. Ideology is scary because sometimes its dictates require you to be Al Cervik at the country club, and that just won’t do. He thought Reagan was slightly nuts and kind of slow, and thought the same about Reagan’s base, that is, us Normal Americans (though his eulogy to Reagan was gracious and moving). He thought people like him should prudently and carefully manage things for the proles and not get all wrapped up in annoying ideas about changing things.
This is why he trusted those in his class over those who elected him. He told us to “Read my lips,” but he never really believed that we expected him to do what he said he would do. That tax promise was Bush 41 playing at Reaganism, but not understanding it. Reagan was serious about this ideology stuff. Reagan’s base was serious about it too. But to Bush 41 it was a pose, something you did for the campaign, and so he held his nose and held the pose, thinking he could just say the stuff Reagan said and get that same support.
The Democrats played him like a fiddle, convincing him to raise taxes because, well, everyone thought raising taxes was the right thing to do. At least, everyone he hung out with in DC and read in the papers. And Bush 41 was stunned to find that the people who elected him were really serious about it. By breaking his word – we cannot sugarcoat it – he prompted the rise of populist Ross Perot, thereby allowing the sordid Clintons into the White House. We’re still dealing with their stench today.
Democrats want Republicans to be more like Bush 41 not because they want war heroes or “truth-tellers” but because they want Republicans who split the base and lose. They want a Republican they can cajole into breaking his campaign promises then crucify him at the next election for doing it. They don’t want someone so gauche and vulgar that he fails to care what the WaPo thinks and who punches back three times as hard. They want a Republican who understands that his job is to try, unsuccessfully, to slow the inevitable and unstoppable spread of progressivism, and to lose that struggle like a gentleman.
RIP George H. W. Bush. Good riddance, GOP Establishment.
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I’ve been saying out loud the same thing for the last decade...the only good democrat is a dead democrat!!!
Strange how no one is mentioning Ross Perot, who gave us the Clintons
Wonder if Perot is invited to the funeral
The Bushes are full-on believers and beneficiaries of the New World Order
Which despises deplorables and leaders who love and respect and defend us
No, the author was saying that the left is upset that not all Republicans are dead. Or, to put another way, the left is upset that some Republicans are alive.
Schlichter did mention Perot.
Perfect
Nailed it.
I remember the “read my lips” thing so well.
I know it is alleged Bush 41`was a very smart man but ANYBODY THAT BELIEVED THE DEMOCRATS IS DUMB.....VERY DUMB.
Bush 41 deserved to lose the second term. What the hell was he thinking?
Even I voted for Clinton, not that I’m proud of that.
Bush 41 also said he was voting for Hillary. None of the ungrateful Bush family endorsed Trump except for grandson George P who was running for a minor office in Texas. Jeb who pledged to support the nominee of the party failed to do so. The Bush family revealed their true colors with their lack of loyalty to the GOP. They are a bunch of RINOs who are part of the Uniparty. No wonder the MSM and the Dems are praising them.
“RIP George H. W. Bush. Good riddance, GOP Establishment.”
Good article, cute phrasing, but the above pretty much sums it up.
Isn’t it sad that we need to shed so many from both sides of the aisle to gain back our Country? :(
MAGA!
I suppose. Then again, Robert Mugabe's still around at 94...
So's Daniel arap Moi...
And Kim Yong-nam will be 91 soon...
*Stalin's lackey
I heard a report this morning that in the morning, he was doing fine, just another normal day, but by the afternoon, he’d taken a direct downhill turn and that just a short few hours later, was gone, and his son didn’t have time to get there. If you have a family member who is very old, and frail, do you suspend your life to go spend every day with them until the end? My grandmother was very frail. She was ill for a long time. She was sick for nearly 3 years before she passed. Do you suspend everything for 3 years? Or do you abide by their wishes that you live?
The Democrats played him like a fiddle, convincing him to raise taxes because, well, everyone thought raising taxes was the right thing to do. At least, everyone he hung out with in DC and read in the papers. And Bush 41 was stunned to find that the people who elected him were really serious about it. By breaking his word – we cannot sugarcoat it – he prompted the rise of populist Ross Perot, thereby allowing the sordid Clintons into the White House. We’re still dealing with their stench today.
I hate the Left every bit as much as they hate us, so I can’t say much about their glee every time a Republican dies, because every time one of theirs dies (or gets #metoo-ed) I do a fist pump.
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