Sorry, but aside from tax cuts, the courts and defense, Bush was the most liberal president in recent history. Bush may be a good man, but he destroyed the GOP, and especially the “conservative,” brand.
No offense, but I didn’t turn my back on President Bush...however, President Bush did turn HIS back on conservatives and conservative values....What conservative value did he represent by nominating Harriet Miers to the highest court in the land??? What conservative value was espoused in his support of open borders and amnesty? His incredible inability to veto the out of control spending was astounding.
Sorry, but this is what happens when the GOP turns its back on CONSERVATIVES.
Bush was way ahead of us on that one with his pharmaceutical drug giveaway and the freakin' bailout.
You have to excerpt yourself on Freerepublic now? This truly is Bizzaroworld.
Anyway, being a conservative, I was the one thrown under the bus by the Republican party a long time ago.
Would I have prefered McCain to Obama? Yes. Will I be the fall guy for McCain’s loss? Not a chance.
You just said two diametrically opposing things. Bush was the so-called compassionate conservative, and he was the one always reaching out. Him and McCain were always the worst with regards to that.
Bush turned his back on the GOP base. We are a republic still. Power is inherent in the people, and is delegated to leaders, not the other way around. We owe no politician anything.
Excuse me but he threw us under the bus. Instead of sealing the borders and arming the pilots immediately after 9/11 he creates an agency that violates our constitution a few million times a day, namely the TSA. Have you realized yet that more of our freedoms have been removed during his administration than any other? IRAQ was to make up for Daddy not completing the Job but he couldn’t admit that. Saddam is gone but Osama???? How often do you even hear what is going on in the MAIN war??? The terrorist that attacked us to start the war on terror is still alive and on the loose.
Respectfully,
Ravenstar
President Bush will be forever linked to BO.
Hoover to FDR.
Bush to Obama.
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.
Really? Bush got 70% disapproval the old fashioned way - he earned it by not listening to the voters.
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.
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
The fault was not ours.
ML/NJ
“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.
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.
>>>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.