“Bush is a greater conservative President than Reagan.”
How so?
Reagan ran up bigger deficits than Bush— he showed far less fiscal restraint. So Reagan was not by any measure fiscally conservative.
He nominated and placed Sandra Day O Connor on the Supreme Court. That was an unmitigated disaster.
He placed 300 peacekeepers in Lebanon to appease Israel Bashers. Those soliders were murdered. When prompted to retaliate, he refused. He pulled out and ran from the terrorists.
Please understand. I think Reagan was great. But if this is how it is going to be for Bush, then I will destroy Reagan with exactly the same logics being used against Bush.
It is not even close. Bush fielding more than 200,000 volunteer soldiers repudiates the soft post Vietnam era America in a way that puts him light years ahead of “I conquered Grenada” Reagan.
I would never equate Bush with Jimmy Carter.
Any president who is in office for 8 years will make mistakes, little ones and big ones. In some ways W was too nice of a guy to be Prez. For example, why did Iraq drag on for over 5 years under his watch? The left would have hated him even more than they did, if that is possible, but after Saddam Hussein’s regime was toppled, and the insurgents took over Mosul and Fallujah etc, we should have given the women and children 24 hours to leave those cities and then carpet bombed them into oblivion along with the hateful scum within. If WW2 had been run like Iraq, Nazis would still be in Dresden, Munich, and Berlin sniping at our troops. The same goes for Japan. W would have never dropped the A-bombs on the Japs and our casualties would have been huge. Nixon and Reagan would have dropped the bomb to their credit. I still admire W but as Prez he earns a C+ from me.