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Are We Ready to Rehabilitate George W. Bush’s Reputation?
texasmonthly ^ | 09/16/2020 | ANDREW R. GRAYBILL

Posted on 09/17/2020 9:18:33 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: lodi90

Where does that put Carter?


61 posted on 09/17/2020 9:52:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

62 posted on 09/17/2020 9:53:00 AM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: ChicagoConservative27

NEVER! Even tough he did take out a lot of Muslims. He disrespected Donald Trump the Greatest POTUS of our time.
He couldn’t carry Trumps jock.


63 posted on 09/17/2020 9:53:09 AM PDT by spincaster (g)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
" . . . got misty-eyed when reflecting upon Bush’s obvious love of country."

The implication of that is that Trump DOESN'T love the country, which is a complete lie. In fact, it is the Democrats who seem to hate the country, accusing it of systemic racism, systemic injustice, and intolerable inequality.
64 posted on 09/17/2020 9:54:37 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: decal

The morons at Texas Monthly can’t pick the best BBQ joints in Texas on an annual basis, much less figure out anything of this minor importance.


65 posted on 09/17/2020 9:54:44 AM PDT by Misplaced Texan
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is this the same ‘George Bush’ that stole the 4th amendment from America?
That George Bush?
Ya, no, too soon...


66 posted on 09/17/2020 9:54:51 AM PDT by glasseye ("Remember that it is not a prayer which will keep the darkness at bay, but a sword".)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
'No longer a contender for the worst president in history'...stopped reading and started scanning the article.

Bush's obvious love for the country, patriot, could joke with him, decent all the usual b.s.

All of these people are completely deaf and blind. Trump is THE VOICE of the American people. He is doing exactly what we hired him for and these people just can't get over the fact, that the election of Donald J. Trump was the biggest F.U., by 'We the People', to the establishment, ingrained authors, academia, etc. in modern history.

Bush and his sorry ass family wouldn't make a pimple on President Trump's tail. Left up to them, we'd be swimming in illegals poring over the border (in the name of love donchya know). Not to mention the following presidency of obama who had us in bed with OUR ENEMIES while snubbing our true allies. Lousy trade deals made by the last 3 administrations decimated our manufacturing base. All passed by these smiling, slimy maggots while spewing the same old 'it will be good for our economy' b.s.

The American people spoke in 2016 and we will SCREAM coming this November. Americans dialed 911 and Donald J. Trump answered the phone.

67 posted on 09/17/2020 9:55:12 AM PDT by LibertyWoman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Uh, why should we? Their family voted for Hillary in 2016, proving their true colors are not as Republicans but as Globalists.


68 posted on 09/17/2020 9:55:20 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (COVID infects the Democrat brain and makes them drunk with power.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No, in historical Presidential rankings he’ll be looked at as a peer of Franklin Pierce.


69 posted on 09/17/2020 9:55:20 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Wayne07

Unless we are all mis-remembering, Bush seemed to be the right man for the times, especially given the Democrat alternative.


70 posted on 09/17/2020 9:57:13 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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In late November 2016, I took a tour of the facility with five college friends who were visiting from the East Coast... Although we were hardly fans of his presidency, one of my pals—fearful, like everyone in our group, of a Trump administration—got misty-eyed when reflecting upon Bush’s obvious love of country. After an hour or so, with a requisite stop for photos in the museum’s full-sized and perfectly appointed replica of the Oval Office, we left in glum moods.
IOW, in 2016, the writer was still all moist about GWB, preferring GWB to Zero -- but preferring Hillary to Donald. What an a-hole the writer is.

71 posted on 09/17/2020 9:57:48 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As others have pointed out, this is the same, tired leftist ploy: the current Republican is always a fascist, a Nazi, a racist, and a moron, and he is always compared unfavorably to previous Republicans, who are presented as models of dignity and integrity. But those same previous Republicans were vilified as fascists, Nazis, racists, and morons when they were in office or running for office.


72 posted on 09/17/2020 9:59:21 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He folded like a cheap suit after Nancy and Harry took Congress. He really had no core belief like his dad. Very disappointed. At least he kept us from a Kerry presidency.


73 posted on 09/17/2020 10:01:03 AM PDT by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nope.


74 posted on 09/17/2020 10:02:44 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them wthaith a pitchfork!)
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To: drSteve78
Unless we are all mis-remembering, Bush seemed to be the right man for the times, especially given the Democrat alternative.

I agree. Bush had no serious competition in the primaries; McCain being a distant second and an even worse choice. Bush didn't look that bad at the time, and even the China and Iraq decisions weren't obvious blunders. In hindsight though, huge blunders.

75 posted on 09/17/2020 10:05:55 AM PDT by Wayne07
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To: Wayne07

Bush also benefitted from running against two ridiculous Rat nominees, in Gore and Kerry. And he barely beat them.


76 posted on 09/17/2020 10:07:46 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Nope. Shrub is an idiot. Frodo. Get out the Bush’s! Jelp!... No better.


77 posted on 09/17/2020 10:08:38 AM PDT by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: lonestar67

WHAT BS! The Bush family are GLOBALIST that have help to undermine the US and even back the enemy Anti-American lefties, then remain completely silent about the COUP attempt. They were the least of two evils, but far far far from good for America. The last three admins are completely responsible for the complete and utter destruction of the middle class and the great American sell-off to CHINA!


78 posted on 09/17/2020 10:08:42 AM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I can tell ya, no one, in my eyes, has fallen a farther distance than has George W. Bush from the days of September 11, 2001 to today. To me, I will always be grateful for W defeating that scum Al Gore and then, on 9/11, being the pillar of strength to draw a hurting nation together. . .but my disappointment in Bush and the Bush family is, plain and simple, the feeling of being betrayed.


79 posted on 09/17/2020 10:12:03 AM PDT by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: McBuff

9/11 still happened on Bush’s watch. As they say “The Buck Stops Here.”


80 posted on 09/17/2020 10:13:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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