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Conservative George W. Bush Is Now Too Liberal for His Party
nymag ^ | 03/20/2021 | Ed Kilgore

Posted on 03/23/2021 6:58:22 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

It’s well-known that there’s no love lost between Donald J. Trump and the Bush family. They (with the exception of Texas pol George P. Bush) were conspicuously missing from the ranks of Republican leaders who happily or dutifully endorsed the mogul in 2016 or in 2020. And in a new interview with the Texas Tribune, the 43rd president makes it abundantly clear he is miles away from the 45th on a wide range of issues. But he also shows he’s far from the prevailing mood in the party he led for eight years

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Bush was a big government republican. I can't believe I voted for him twice and defended him all those years.
1 posted on 03/23/2021 6:58:22 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Son of the New World Order.


2 posted on 03/23/2021 6:59:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The FBI used to go after communists. Now it is run by communists. The American Stasi.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Son of the New World Order.


3 posted on 03/23/2021 6:59:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The FBI used to go after communists. Now it is run by communists. The American Stasi.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

NONE of the Bushes were ever conservative.
They were/are ALL UniParty.


4 posted on 03/23/2021 6:59:58 AM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I absolutely despise him now.


5 posted on 03/23/2021 7:01:53 AM PDT by LibertyWoman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I absolutely despise him now.


6 posted on 03/23/2021 7:01:53 AM PDT by LibertyWoman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

His 2000 campaign themes would be okay, but not how he ended up governing. Tax cuts and war in the Middle East does not equal conservative. He was fairly pro life, so there’s that. The media is deebly goncerned about the GOP again.


7 posted on 03/23/2021 7:02:37 AM PDT by cdcdawg (Biden is a potato)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh? Do tell. Which “conservative” policies has he changed his stance on?


8 posted on 03/23/2021 7:03:02 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

GW was a rhino. He songed every bad bill sent to him until the end of his 2nd term. He was a rubber stamp.


9 posted on 03/23/2021 7:03:56 AM PDT by Clean_Sweep
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yep. Me too. Voted for Dad, son but Jeb was very instrumental in putting a stop to a bad habit.


10 posted on 03/23/2021 7:04:15 AM PDT by albie
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Bush was never conservative

Good freepers were zotted for disagreeing with Bush conservatism..


11 posted on 03/23/2021 7:05:56 AM PDT by wardaddy (P IN 1999 JIM THOMPSON WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE BUSHES ...WE WERE WRONG )
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Who is this conservative George Bush they are talking about ?

I never heard of him.


12 posted on 03/23/2021 7:06:03 AM PDT by PMAS (Vote with your wallets, there are 80 million of us - No Amazon, No Chy-Na made )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s a conspiracy.


13 posted on 03/23/2021 7:06:27 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the MAGA Party.)
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To: albie

The worst mistake President Reagan ever made. This family had no political acumen or base and would never have gotten anywhere nationally except for him; they showed their “gratitude” by undercutting his conservative policies.


14 posted on 03/23/2021 7:07:09 AM PDT by laconic
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To: ChicagoConservative27
A NY mag discussing conservatism. Ha!
15 posted on 03/23/2021 7:07:12 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, given that the alternative would have been Al Gore or John Kerry, of course we all voted for Bush. We have binary choices in elections.


16 posted on 03/23/2021 7:07:20 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Conservatives DO NOT bomb their own country.


17 posted on 03/23/2021 7:07:35 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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I repeatedly tried to warn everyone about W in 1999 but no one would listen. Steve Forbes was a far better choice.


18 posted on 03/23/2021 7:09:06 AM PDT by jpsb
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No, what’s happened is that many on the right have been red pilled. They are no longer so trusting that they support every war, go along with whatever establishment Republicans swear is the best way to get things done, etc. They are tired of being lied to by evil men like GWB.


19 posted on 03/23/2021 7:09:20 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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Bush was Corporatist, in the most awful form.


20 posted on 03/23/2021 7:10:18 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Trans Undocumented. Anti Woke Supremacist. Covid Abortionist.)
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