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Did Bush Destroy The Republican Party?
Captain's Quarters ^
| Jan. 25, 2008
| Ed Morrissey
Posted on 01/25/2008 7:58:07 AM PST by jdm
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Comment #21 Removed by Moderator
To: maica
"IRRATIONAL" I think not.
Bush43 signed McCain/Feingold into law.
Bush43 looked forward "to seeing us in the rose garden" for his signing into law the McCain/Kennedy/Bush Shamnesty act of 2007
Bush43 has failed to veto ANY spending bill.
I fully expect Myth Romey AKA Bush44 to be equally as bad.
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:10:30 AM PST
by
Agent Smith
(“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!" AuH2O)
To: jdm
Peggy Noonan could not hold Dubya’s socks
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:11:07 AM PST
by
advertising guy
(my Sleep Number Bed is 9..........................................Budweisers....)
To: Brilliant
Very nearly. Of course, his chief opponent in 2000 was McCain, and he would most definitely have destroyed it completely.
Actually, Bush's poor performance has made me re-evaluate Sen. McCain. Maybe he was right after all....
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:11:07 AM PST
by
Antoninus
("Make all the promises you have to." -Mitt Romney)
To: jdm; Huck
I always wonder about these pundits who want to heap 100% blame on a single character in Government, in the Party, in some org. The guy at the top bears a brunt of responsibility, but when the load is shared or blanaced, it’s hard to shift to his one pair of shoulders. I wonder if the authors who do this are just trying to spit out a column becuase they have 15 minutes before deadline, or if they had plenty of time to give it thought, yet decided not to. Either Way, It’s the President, the Republican Senators and Congressmen, the aides, advisors, the RNC all sharing the blame. They ran away from the core beliefs, and ignored us when we howled at them. And then we voted them back in.
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:11:11 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: mkjessup; T.L.Sink
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:11:29 AM PST
by
Convert from ECUSA
(A voter wavering between wanting radical change and burning the damn place down)
To: jdm
It's not unusual for parties to have these debates -- and maybe if we'd had it in 2000, we would have elevated leaders more supportive of traditional Republican fiscal discipline rather than just blindly supported the people who threw that legacy in the wastebin. The reason we didn't have it then, and won't unless the party is viewed as being in danger of total annihilation, is because the rot had already pretty well settled in: we have the same cast of characters since 1995. We're not going to have it any time soon, either.
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:11:48 AM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(Don't trust anyone who can’t take a joke. [Congressman BillyBob])
To: jdm
When we had a congressional majority, the Democrats still managed to control the agenda with filibusters or the threat of. Judges, immigration, war spending, everything has been subject to conciliation with the Democrat Party.
But the Rats did a job on Bush because everything is Bush’s fault. Going back to the election in 2000 that Bush stole from the Rats, everything has been Bush’s fault.
As a leader of the GOP, Bush has indeed created a lot of division in the party. he has been given some very BAD ADVICE on many issues.
His worst advice was not listening to the people on illegal immigration. But congress has not been supportive, even when it had GOP control.
3 words of advice for the next GOP candidate.
LOOK, LISTEN, LIVE.
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:12:00 AM PST
by
o_zarkman44
(No Bull in 08!)
To: jdm
She is correct.
WOT without securing the Borders.
Millions of Illegals into the Country.
Minutemen are Vigilantes.
Insane spending.
No Child Left behind.
Keeping Tenet at the CIA.
Enlarging the Dept. of Education.
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:12:32 AM PST
by
BGHater
('A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry'-Thomas Jefferson)
To: RockinRight
"No, we all did."Exactly!
Enough blame to go around. GWB had considerable "help".
From County convention to State Convention, and in my own county Republican Central Committee, I witnessed much liberalism in action.
The liberals now have a higher stake in our party than do we conservatives.
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:14:03 AM PST
by
Designer
To: jdm
It is still a work in process, but government financing for $750,000.00 homes pretty well says that the republicans and their friends the democrats are in full steam ahead mode.
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:14:30 AM PST
by
org.whodat
(What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
To: maica
From a fiscal perspective, Bush has been the biggest spender since LBJ...maybe even bigger.
Sure you have to give the Republican congress their share of the blame, but if there's one individual who could have put a stop to all of that spending, it was G.W. Bush. In fact, the really big ticket items (the prescription drug program and the War in Iraq) were efforts that HE initiated. The pork barrel stuff, a half million here, a billion there, that are rightly attributed to congress are small potatoes compared to the entire federal budget.
That being said, I don't disagree with the author that we got who we voted for when we elected Bush. For a politician, he has been uncommonly honest. He did what he said he would.
Well, except I don't remember him saying he would leave office with the country on the brink of bankruptcy. I'm sure he didn't intend to...
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:14:45 AM PST
by
be-baw
(still seeking)
Comment #33 Removed by Moderator
To: maica
Exactly. She holds a grudge and has never forgiven
Bush for not inviting her to be his speech writer.
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:15:05 AM PST
by
Matchett-PI
(Algore - there's not a more priggish, sanctimonious moral scold of a church lady anywhere.)
To: maica
Peggy Noonan turned against Bush on the day of his second Inaugural, and she has been irrational in her comdemnation of him ever sinceI still haven't figured out if Peggy's just menopausal, or she's ticked because she didn't get a job in the administration. You know what they say about "a woman scorned."
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:15:08 AM PST
by
dawn53
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
He is a nice guy but hes a divider, not a uniter. We're all united in saying we'll be more than ready for him to leave office.
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:15:30 AM PST
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: Huck
No?
The GOP certainly lost it’s conservative flavor. Muck like salt without the saltiness imo.
It’s not the party of RWR anymore.
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:16:40 AM PST
by
zek157
To: theDentist
I always wonder about these pundits who want to heap 100% blame on a single character in Government, in the Party, in some org. The guy at the top bears a brunt of responsibility, but when the load is shared or blanaced, its hard to shift to his one pair of shoulders. I wonder if the authors who do this are just trying to spit out a column becuase they have 15 minutes before deadline, or if they had plenty of time to give it thought, yet decided not to. Either Way, Its the President, the Republican Senators and Congressmen, the aides, advisors, the RNC all sharing the blame. They ran away from the core beliefs, and ignored us when we howled at them. And then we voted them back in. Bush gets blame because he lead, but he lead us off a cliff. If he hadn't done anything and this destruction was the result, that would be different.
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:17:33 AM PST
by
GraniteStateConservative
(...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
To: jdm
This is absurd. George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues. This sentence is true, but it tends to support Rush's prediction that McCain, who is to the left of George W. Nixon, would really really destroy the Republican party.
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:17:51 AM PST
by
Nephi
( $100m ante is a symptom of the old media... the Ron Paul Revolution is the new media's choice.)
To: Clemenza
You just reminded me Bush43 and the Rinos in Congress failed to make the tax cuts permanent. Another complete disgrace!
The ONLY current difference between Republicans and DemocRats in DC is that:
Republicans prefer to borrow and spend us into bankruptcy.
DemocRATs prefer to tax, borrow and spend us into bankruptcy.
May God help us!
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posted on
01/25/2008 8:18:00 AM PST
by
Agent Smith
(“I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice!" AuH2O)
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