Posted on 06/12/2024 7:25:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Today marks the centenary of the birth of George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president of the United States. With one exception — his eldest son in 2004 — he is the last Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote.
He was a remarkable man in many ways, having been decorated as a U.S. Navy pilot during World War II, and his resume before the presidency was broad. After becoming a successful oil executive, he was a two-term congressman, unsuccessful candidate for the Senate, ambassador to the United Nations and to China, chairman of the Republican National Committee and director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Bush seems now a figure of a truly bygone age. He was a relatively low-key vice president to Ronald Reagan by choice rather than imposition, learning from his Democratic predecessor Walter Mondale that being effective as VP in Washington owed a lot to avoiding conflict with White House staff and cabinet secretaries. He was also aware that the previous Republican vice president, Nelson Rockefeller, had become mired in disputes with other members of the administration by trying to insert himself into the decision-making process.
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This is in 1983 VP GhwB and guvnah billy cokenose clinton.
Wallace is in a wheelchair, paralyzed by Artie Bremer, and Lurleen had died in office in 1968, before Wallace’s run in 1972.
Bill is drinking a Diet Pepsi (in the South!!) and appears to have a woodie under his left arm holding the can, with a goofy grin. Priapus incarnate. And now, he’s got tertiary neurosyphilis acc. to colleagues who know. Got the gait and the long vacant eye stare, he also wanders (recently seen).
[Simpson]
It’s a bit unfair, but Quayle was simultaneously too youthful and good-looking, but lacked the kind of vocal timbre that Trump has either cultivated or comes naturally, that projects gravitas. It’s shallow, but voters are shallow - if he had Trump’s voice, Quayle might have caught fire. The way he came off, Quayle was a drag on Bush’s ticket.
Sorry to ramble on and on but I always wondered what a second Bush term would have looked like .If he never said read my lips I think he would have won.
Bush looking at his watch during the debate, was another big moment in that campaign. He mailed it in.
[Sorry to ramble on and on but I always wondered what a second Bush term would have looked like .If he never said read my lips I think he would have won.]
No Perot and Bush wins
I wouldn’t be so sure of that.
Never liked the term “WASP.” Here in North Jersey many of not most of the folks whose ancestors go back to Colonial times are of Dutch or even Palantine German ancestry. Also, Clinton and GWB are of colonial era English ancestry (as was Obama on his mother’s side).
[Bush looking at his watch during the debate, was another big moment in that campaign. He mailed it in.]
[No Perot and Bush wins]
But we got clinton and the rest is history
[But we got clinton and the rest is history]
Interesting
Oh for gods sake. You couldn’t be more wrong.
I read once that the reason Bush looked at his watch was that the moderators were letting Clinton talk longer than he was supposed to.
[I’m\ read once that the reason Bush looked at his watch was that the moderators were letting Clinton talk longer than he was supposed to.]
That would make him White (for a certain value of "White") and Protestant but not Anglo-Saxon.
Most people labeled as WASPs are not.
Freeper Dr. Sivana posted this on another thread recently:
Here is a definition from Perplexity ai:Some key points about WASPs:
The term emerged in the 1960s to describe the elite upper class of American society that had roots tracing back to the original English Protestant settlers of the 17th century.
WASPs historically held a position of power, wealth, and influence in American society, politics, academia, and culture for several centuries.
The WASP establishment was seen as promoting its own cultural values and traditions derived from Northern European Protestant backgrounds.
Over time, the WASP elite’s influence has declined as American society became more diverse and meritocratic, though remnants of the old establishment persist in certain institutions.
The term can have negative connotations of exclusivity, snobbery, and discrimination against non-WASPs, though it was originally a sociological descriptor.
I suppose Trump could be ethnically be called a WASP from his German side, but his forebearers migrated much later -- his Trump grandfather from Germany and his mother from Scotland.
The voice issue certainly didn't help Sarah Palin. She badly needed a vocal coach.
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