IMHO ... The Bush family are worse than the lying libtards, they sell a brand of ‘conservatism’ that they call compassionate .... I saw ol bjClinton for the political sellout whore that he was ... the Bush bunch were far more deceptive.
I don’t disagree with you - what I wrote wasn’t a defense of the Bushes - George Bush Sr as VP was RR’s only mistake, and it was a doozy.
But however deserving of criticism Republican Presidents may be - our political system is binary whether we like it or not.
Republicans are our only way of defeating Democrats.
I am reminded of an old joke about two campers being chased by a grizzly bear.
As they are running, with the bear gaining on them, one camper says to the other. “I hope you realize that you can’t outrun a grizzly bear!”
The other camper replies: “I don’t need to outrun the grizzly bear, I just need to outrun you.”
Similarly, not all Republican Presidents need to measure up to Ronald Reagan or Donald Trump. Sometimes not being a Democrat is enough.
Rather than eight years of Obama? I would have gladly taken another Bush, a Romney, even a McCain.
Think of them as a placeholder while we wait for the next Reagan or the next Trump!
Republicans have a bad habit of eating their own. Republicans would make horrible football players. Republicans would probably pass to the other team’s wide receiver because he was more out in the clear.
You don’t see the Democrats making these mistakes.