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To: Leep; BillyBoy; SmokingJoe; Robert DeLong; lewislynn; Olog-hai
The Bushes?

Yes, the Bushes. I'm surprised everybody doesn't get that by now.

17 posted on 08/12/2021 3:30:23 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

Please explain how Reagan could have avoided that and the deep state of back then acceding to his nomination.


18 posted on 08/12/2021 6:26:23 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: TwelveOfTwenty

Also explain the link to the Cheneys.


19 posted on 08/12/2021 6:26:51 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: TwelveOfTwenty; Leep; SmokingJoe; Robert DeLong; lewislynn; Olog-hai; Impy; fieldmarshaldj
Ummm okay? Reagan appointing Bush as veep in 1981 somehow resulted in Liz Cheney being elected to Congress in 2016 (even though her daddy was ALREADY a big shot power player in Washington DC by the 70s, when George H.W. Bush was best known as a failed Senate candidate who went back to the private sector)

Following your "logic", Kamala Harris was undoubtedly Alan Keyes biggest mistake. I mean, Keyes decided to accept the IL GOP's invitation to become Obama's 11th hour opponent for the U.S. Senate in 2004. As a result, Keyes got crushed by Obama. After becoming Senator, Obama then ran for President. Obama then picked Biden as veep. Biden then picked Kamala Harris for veep.

So yup, Kamala Harris is TOTALLY the fault of ALAN KEYES!

20 posted on 08/12/2021 7:41:32 AM PDT by BillyBoy ("States rights" is NOT a suicide pact.)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty
Vice President Bush was a good Vice President and a fairly good president even with his faults.
To reach all the way from Reagan to Liz Cheney and blame Reagan for Liz Cheney....that is ridiculous.
Not to mention most Freepers did not even have much of a problem with Liz Cheney when she first run for Congress.
21 posted on 08/12/2021 7:50:05 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: TwelveOfTwenty
Haven't you ever heard that politics makes for strange bedfellows?

Why Nancy Reagan Hated the Bushes

Nancy Reagan’s obvious displeasure with the Bush family began when her husband was almost assassinated by a Bush family friend. She had been heard stating “I never want to see the Bush’s again” by White House staff. In 1981, a family friend of the Bush’s was accused of an assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.

It is theorized, the Reagan’s did not want H.W. Bush as a running mate during the 1980 presidential campaign as a result. Unfortunately for Reagan, Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker did not win the nomination for VP that year (1976) and Reagan was forced to work with a family he believed to be his enemies.

Schweiker was part of a select committee specializing in investigating intelligence activities, including the assassination of John F. Kennedy. As the Vice President, Schweiker would have been a nightmare for the Bush’s in regards to the attempt on Reagan’s life.

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It appears nothing went the Reagan’s way during the 1980 election. The Bush campaign saw to it that Reagan’s choices for VP came down to his two biggest enemies, Ford and H.W. Bush. President Reagan did not believe in the kind of politics that these men used and found the means of their rises to power within the government questionable due to their financial affiliations. It was a mutual distaste for one another that lead to the bad blood between them.

Ford was rejected because the Reagans discovered that Ford planned to govern the country as a “co-president” … Neither was Bush wanted for the ticket because of his attacks on Reagan during the primaries, including the charge that Reagan’s economic policies were “voodoo economics.”… Although Schweiker was a moderate-to-liberal Republican, Reagan not only liked him but felt he would bring reasonable valance (I think this word was meant to be: BALANCE) to the ticket.

Reagan despised people like Bush and other East Coast Republicans who were in the political orbit of Ford’s vice president and former New York governor Nelson Rockefeller. Although Rockefeller died in 1979, his influence in the GOP was still felt through Republicans like Bush, Ford, and Kissinger. Reagan felt the East Coast “establishment” Republicans took their orders from the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.

22 posted on 08/12/2021 8:40:12 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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