That is a pretty famous Teddy Roosevelt quotation. And perhaps G.W. Bush will be judged by his accomplishments. But my point is that any blame for his reputation dragging down the GOP belongs on those who let his reputation be besmerched.
Not only did pundits and rank and file alike allow Bush to be trashed by Dems, they joined in the trashing because they in their own way began to despise (despise doesn’t mean hate, actually, it just means to lack regard for, to dismiss, not value, etc.) the man.
No, they didn’t join in trashing him on the SAME issues as Dems...to the contrary they defended him on THOSE issues. But where they were upset with him they couldn’t seperate their upset on a particular matter or several with his basic worth as a man or as a President in other areas.
Somebody said on here that Bush was terrible and accomplished nothing on anything other than tax cuts and Roberts and Alito. Wow is that ever a whopper. Talk about amnesia.
It is also argued that Bush didn’t effectively defend himself, therefore he had no one to blame but himself. Everybody else is blameless. Wow, what a dumb assertion. But, hey, whatever floats your boat and allows yourself to feel better by flogging one man some more after he’s already flogged into bloody, tiny little bits of flesh.
One thing I do agree with that was said is that a lot of people today are so ignorant I would not be surprised if they are unaware that the Dems control both houses of congress and that Liberal big government policies are killing this nation. Hence, the GOP “brand” has become a whipping boy for every frustration, much of it in ignorance and lashing out blindly.
Liberal Republicans in the Senate have helped the Dems stymie us at just about every turn in doing desperately needed things or stopping bad things.
But conservative Republicans are being thrown aside in favor of MORE OF THE SAME THING that is already destroying this nation.
President Bush has been eaten alive by the MSM and hate. Acquiesced to and sometimes aided and abetted by pundits and rank and file alike on our side.
Has he erred in ways that have made him subject to attacks from his own side? Of course. So did Ronald Reagan. Yes, he did. I remember when he was being villified by the most conservative among us.
No, Bush isn’t Reagan...that isn’t my point.
Reagan wasn’t immune to failings is my point. He was able in the end to rise above it because of his superior gifts.
Which President Bush nor few others in this world possess.