[C19fan]

The Left has the Roman version of declaring rulers gods. In this case, if the GOP dead politician is useful in bashing Trump they declare the person a political angel who exemplified all that was right with Pre-Trump GOP politician. They count on the amnesia and ignorance of the American people to forget about how they threw out every insult against these men when they were standing in the way. Clinton and company stated Bush the Elder was an out of touch old white dude who did not even know how a check out laser scanner worked. The MSM ignores how the Democratic Congress stabbed Bush the Elder in the back when he compromised on tax cuts never following through with their side of the deal. It was the Democratic dirty dealing with a fundamentally decent person that opened the way for Trump. When you call every GOP politician a racist and Nazi well by the time Trump comes along nobody cares what the MSM and Democrats say.

[VanDeKoik]

And whom did WaPo endorse in 1992?

[Doogle]

WaPo has to control the narrative... once again interpreting others thoughts..

[ClearCase_guy]

Bush was a pushover. That’s what a Republican president is supposed to be.
The media is disappointed in Trump because Trump believes he’s supposed to be in charge, not the Democrats.

[neverevergiveup]

Your comments are spot on.

[King Moonracer]

WaPo is the yardstick for communist propaganda.

[ronnie raygun]

They were vicious while he was president but he is now their guy. The despicable media and their rat accomplices continue to fool the uneducated and the mentally ill in their herd. Bush was a globalist and an about face to Reagan, this they were happy about

[McGavin999]

Is this the same guy the media mocked as being out of touch with the average American and blamed for almost destroying an industry when he said he hated broccoli? They were pretty nasty to him while he was in office.

[sodpoodle]

The blatant hypocrisy of the MSM is on full display and it will never change.

[Pete Dovgan]

Your opinion is well written, and the truth of the rise of Trump is in your words. There is no Trump without the Left, and especially the media’s, never ending attack on the descent conservatives. The problem is that the left doesn’t get what they have caused or created, they blame ‘old white people’ and ‘ignorant racists’. Trump reminds me of Grant. Trump and Grant were eventually chosen out of the need for survival in a brutal war.

[txrefugee]

We see what the corrupt Democrats are like when we look at CA,where they “harvested” the illegal alien vote to defeat all Republicans. They are no better than the Communist thugs who run Venezuela.

[goldstategop]

Dead Republicans are saints. Of course.

Its impossible to measure up to a dead man. What a slam at Trump.

[Nifster]

The man they loved to hate

[FlingWingFlyer]

A yardstick I’d love to smack Barry Obonzo with.

[FreedomPoster]

Kurt Schlichter nails the WaPost and others on the Left on this:

The Only Good Republican Is A Dead Republican
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3710161/posts

[\/\/ayne]

I served under President H.W. Bush and had some respect for him then, however I was just becoming politically aware. Realizing that liberal news and entertainment media was lying and controlled almose all media I understood when President Bush had to compromise or sign a liberal bill. I wished he'd fight back more but maybe that would make things worse. After all, he's the expert so he must know what he's doing.

Now we see President Trump and what a difference! He fights back exactly as we want. Neither Bush would even discuss the Johnson Amendment but President Trump just said "No, that's unconstitutional. Forget it." That's just one example of many similar freedoms President Trump fought for that others wouldn't touch.

And this is why we are even more disappointed in past GOP politicians. Thanks to President Trump we see that hey, it is possible to fight liberal news media and Democrats. President H.W. Bush's response to Trump's fighting back was to vote for Hillary Clinton, removing the last vestige of respect I had for him.

Yes, both President Bushes mostly failed to stand up to Democrats and liberal news media. They show very little on the yardstick. President Trump will need several yardsticks to measure with by the time he's done.

[apillar]

Yeah and I'm old enough to remember Clinton / Bush 1992. Back then George H.W. Bush WAS as despised by the Washington Post as Donald Trump is today. He was portrayed as a racist, sexist, homophobe who was in bed with big business, uncaring, unfeeling, out of touch with normal America.

Makes me wonder if thirty years down the line we will be reading stories about how "President John Q. Republican" is so horrible he could really takes some lesson from that great elder statesman Donald Trump...

[yldstrk]

utter crapola

[Hostage]

WAPO for breakfast? Gag!!!

[tennmountainman]

Poppa Bush was a one termer.
Trump will be a two termer.

[OttawaFreeper]

Your comment dovetails with something I said on a thread yesterday in which I mentioned that I have a copy of a book written by the Media Research Center (”And That’s The Way It Isn’t”) back in about 1990 or 1991 that is filled with untold instances and quotes from the WaPo, Slimes, the alphabet networks, and elsewhere in the elite media about how GHWB was not much better than or just as bad as his immediate predecessor in the White House or even Hitler.

When I first heard of his passing, I knew right away these a@@holes were going to act like this with their arrogance and hypocrisy.