He made no public statements of encouragement of Thomas. No statements blasting the Dems for their hatchet job. Thomas survived on his own, and the Dems ultimately confirmed him because they were overplaying their hand.
Bush had a poor reelection campaign the media ganged up on him, but he lost largely because of Perot.
Perot and Buchanan were the forerunners of what Trump is now. They were hitting on issues that Bush and the GOPe were ignoring. Working and middle-class families losing their jobs to globalism.
Bush stood by Gorbachev and Yeltsin against the hardline Russian coup.
I don't care about Gorbachev and Yeltsin.
Bush also insisted on the reunification of Germany when everyone was saying we’d have to keep the Russians in East Germany.
Who is everyone? Who was advocating that Germany remain divided?
Bush faced a Democrat Congress his entire presidency
Yeah so Reagan faced a Democratic House and they still passed his tax cuts. It's called leadership, which The Wimp didn't have.
which is why he agreed to $1 in tax increases for every $3 in budget reductions. This resulted in budget surpluses, including in the Clinton years.
Still was stupid to break his promise.
The coalition against Iraq was masterful, and people forget how vehemently every step was opposed by the media.
The coalition was a joke and is responsible for all the turmoil and refugees flooding Europe that is happening now.
Breaking his “read my lips” no new tax pledge + Perot cost him re-election. The media “doesn’t know the cost of milk” line and picture of H.W. looking at his watch during the debate was used by the partisan media repeatedly as free campaign contribution to the Clintons probably cost him votes too but to a lesser degree. H.W. taught W well on how to trust and how not to fight back against your enemies.
The “line in the sand” to get Iraq out of Kuwait .... his leadership used the UN to build the coalition despite significant media and democrap opposition. He achieved his narrow goal of getting Iraq out of Kuwait, kept Schwartzkopf from marching up the highway into Baghdad, basically had a containment policy for Iraq. We should not forget the view that many politicians still thought in Cold War terms that the Soviets would invade from the north. In hindsight his containment policy was not the right answer, though I do not profess to know the right answer. Unfortunately George Washington’s admonition about foreign entanglements was long gone when H.W. came into office.
As another FReeper wrote, H.W. was better than any democrap. But I still shake my head, very disappointed, how he gave in to the lying $3-cut-never-to ever-happen democrap lie to break his promise. And that changed history.