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This is what happens when we eat our own.. (Turning backs on GOP winners I.E. Bush)
Freerepublic ^ | 11-05-2008 | myself

Posted on 11/05/2008 6:46:24 AM PST by 82ndABNOfficer

It is evident that we the GOP turned our backs on President Bush. Keep in mind he successfully defied all odds and won two elections. We turned our backs against the core values and conservatism to reach out to libs and independents... this is what we get for throwing our own under the bus. Just some food for thought.

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KEYWORDS: bush; mccain; obama; rino; vanityagain
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To: Slainte

Darn Right. McCain was BobDole without the died hair. Both were even crippled.


21 posted on 11/05/2008 6:55:12 AM PST by ichabod1 (You won't know obammunism is here until it puts a boot in your (fat) bottom.)
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To: 82ndABNOfficer
It is evident that we the GOP turned our backs on President Bush

By not defending what Bush did right, McCain threw himself under the bus. All we heard about was Bush's tax cuts for the rich and his failed policies. In the end, McCain was directly linked to all those, and it killed him. Obama lied about Bush's tax policies and was never once called out on it. McCain ran a horrendous campaign the last month. Horrendous.

22 posted on 11/05/2008 6:55:27 AM PST by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: 82ndABNOfficer

Really? Bush got 70% disapproval the old fashioned way - he earned it by not listening to the voters.


23 posted on 11/05/2008 6:55:40 AM PST by ex-snook ("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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To: pnh102

Bush overall, turned out to be what I have to call “the worst kind of Republican”. He oversaw the apocalyptic War in Iraq and never bothered to keep the American people informed all along the way of how it was going, and why it was going the way it was going. He was perhaps intellectually incapable of trusting himself to do this.
He hung his head in shame over Katrina, as if he too believed himself to be responsible for all it. Once again, there’s an entire dimension missing there if he was unwilling to fight for what he in fact did do to ameliorate the natural tragedy that became a political tragedy for Republicans. He spent like a drunken Liberal, in the name of “compassionate conservativism”, and never followed up on the success/failure of any spending programs. In the past 6 months he has become as invisible as his VicePresident has been for the last several years.
There has been NO ONE at the helm except General Petraeus in Iraq, and of course, the Democrats , who managed to steer the Ship of State in their direction, so they could climb aboard, as they now have.


24 posted on 11/05/2008 6:55:43 AM PST by supremedoctrine
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To: Always Right

well it messed mccain up. If you voted against the tax cut then how can you defend them just before the election?


25 posted on 11/05/2008 6:55:49 AM PST by ari-freedom (So this is how Liberty dies... with thunderous applause)
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To: ari-freedom

Absolutely spot on!


26 posted on 11/05/2008 6:56:08 AM PST by IMissPresidentReagan ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" President Reagan, I REALLY MISS YOU NOW MORE THAN EVER!)
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To: gubamyster
I think George Bush had as much to do with the self destruction of conservatism and the republican party as did the MSM , Nancy pelosi and all the lunatic left combined.
Conservatives have been leaderless for at least five years. We have had many supporters and articulate speakers, but no overall leadership with witch to rally upon.
What happened to fiscal conservatism,small government,and all our other agenda items?
27 posted on 11/05/2008 6:56:14 AM PST by bt-99 ("its not ours to give")
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To: 82ndABNOfficer

Dubya’s incompetence or unwillingness to counter the media’s narrative brought the whole Republican Party and conservative movements down. He even voluntarily accepted the blame on Katrina! Unfortunately, because he ran as a conservative Christian Republican, the association with his negative ratings affected all three groups.


28 posted on 11/05/2008 6:56:55 AM PST by paudio (Conservatism is a word with various meanings.)
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To: 82ndABNOfficer

BUSH also weakened himself during his 2d term as he almost didn’t respond to the endless vicious attack from the left and their MSM tools...
Big lack of communication


29 posted on 11/05/2008 6:57:02 AM PST by Ulysse
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To: angkor
Conservatism isn't a "brand", it’s an idea and philosophy.

And one that has been completely trashed by the political "elite" including Bush, McCain, and many many others.

Whether we like it or not, when most people hear the word "conservative," they are going to think of people like Bush, not people like Reagan or Goldwater. Bush has effectively "defined" conservatism as being the philosophy of big government.

30 posted on 11/05/2008 6:57:14 AM PST by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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Bush just completely quit trying after he won in 2004. He let Iraq boil over for TWO YEARS before doing what he should have done in the first place. He did not fight for reform of government. He does get credit for fighting terror in the face of dissent, but all his presence has amounted to other than rebuilding the military is Big Government and 2 decent Supreme Court Justices (thought that is no small thing). And now that military will be dismantled.

We didn’t even get permanent tax cuts. This election was lost in 2005.


31 posted on 11/05/2008 6:57:17 AM PST by Crimson Elephant
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To: BGHater
President Bush will be forever linked to BO. Hoover to FDR. Bush to Obama.

Bush I with Clinton.

32 posted on 11/05/2008 6:57:46 AM PST by paudio (Conservatism is a word with various meanings.)
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To: IMissPresidentReagan

Agree. We as conservatives didn’t turn our backs on Bush, he turned his backs on us with his policies. And despited the good things he did, he couldn’t articulate what he was doing and why.


33 posted on 11/05/2008 6:57:51 AM PST by tips up
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To: 82ndABNOfficer
Bush and the GOP turned their backs on me. We have no one to blame but them.

The fault was not ours.

34 posted on 11/05/2008 6:58:12 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (By Obama's own reckoning, isn't Lyndon LaRouche more qualified? He's run since the 70's)
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To: 82ndABNOfficer
In case you didn't notice, it was President Bush who turned his back to us. The only times he spoke in recent memory, it was to pander to the opposition.

ML/NJ

35 posted on 11/05/2008 6:58:31 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: 82ndABNOfficer

“It is evident that we the GOP turned our backs on President Bush.”

Bush is the reason the GOP lost this election. He turned his back on conservatism. McCain was more of the same. True conservatives had no one to vote for. This is a sad day for America but Bush caused it.


36 posted on 11/05/2008 6:58:50 AM PST by monday
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To: 82ndABNOfficer

George Bush was never a conservative. He spent money like the Democrats as governor of Texas, and that’s why they liked him. He ran up the national debt obscenely as President, squandering billions on AIDS in Africa for example, but couldn’t buy the Democrats’ love. They were intent on destroying him and regaining power. They succeeded.


37 posted on 11/05/2008 6:58:56 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: 82ndABNOfficer

>>>we the GOP turned our backs on President Bush<<<<

He was cutting an amnesty deal with Vincente Fox in the immediate days preceding 9/11; he signed campaign finance reform; he didn’t demand a formal Declaration Of War against the State Dept.’s statutorily-defined Designated Terrorists list after 9/11; and then he supported “comprehensive immigration reform,” aka “Amnesty, Part II”.

That’s enough for me.


38 posted on 11/05/2008 6:58:56 AM PST by angkor (Conservatism is not a religious movement.)
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To: 82ndABNOfficer

Compassionate Conservatism MY A$$.....................................


39 posted on 11/05/2008 6:59:08 AM PST by Red Badger (My wallet is made out of depleted you-owe-mium........)
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To: 82ndABNOfficer
You (excerpted) your own topic. That's a first.

I'll give President Bush credit for his conduct on the War on Terror but that's about it. Republicans better get back to being conservatives. The democrats lite formula isn't working. Here's a tip for aspiring positions. Don't ever call yourself a compassionate conservative. It's the kiss of death in my mind.

Maybe they should go back and review the Contract With America. Now that was a winning stratergy.

40 posted on 11/05/2008 6:59:15 AM PST by McGruff (It took a Jimma Carta to give us a Ronald Reagan.)
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