[svxdave]

Jeb Bush owes it to the Republican Party to fight back. George never did. He just loved everybody. Consider the following:

Bush let outgoing Clinton staffers who had trashed the White House upon leaving, completely off the hook. All he needed to do was allow news cameras to film this disaster and Bill and Hillary would have taken a heavy blow.

Consider the additional coverup that George gave the Clintons over their fraudulent pardons. And then there was then-senator James Jeffords (R., Vt.) who became an independent in June 2001, the Senate switched from Republican to Democratic control. The day before the hand-off, Bush included Jeffords in a Cabinet Room photo opportunity.

Can anyone imagine Romney putting up with that crap?

As the press mocked George over and over with half truths, George just smiled, empowering his enemies. Sam Donaldson kept showing up and asking put down questions. Why would George even call on him in these conferences? TOTUS has taught us that you only need to call on your friends.

The “Mission Accomplished” issue could have been addressed by annoucing that getting rid was Saddam was the “accomplishment”. Of course the War was not finished, just like the Korean War is not finished. We continue to have troops there.

George didn’t use his power or the bully pit which was completely available to him.

Jeb needs to show that he can fight. Let him stand in the lime light for a while, take some hits and and throw some punches. Let him tell the World what a buffoon TOTUS is.

George just never fought back. Jeb, who doesn’t have the word mangling gene, should stand up to the plate now instead of leaving everything to Cheney.

[advance_copy]

"One of the things that's constantly stated by the Obama administration spokesman is that the Republicans are the 'party of no,' and that the conservatives don't have ideas," said former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, whose brother, President George W. Bush, many blame for the party's unpopularity. "But conservatives, in general, have not done a great job on putting forward their ideas."

He isn't fighting back. Like every other Bush before him, Jeb Bush doesn't utter one sentence that could offend the DemocRAT. All we get from a Bush is kinder-gentler crap, milktoast poll-tested mush. And America is sick of it.

[ansel12]

Can anyone imagine Romney putting up with that crap?

Who? What does that loser know about being in office, during all these years of running for office he pulled off one single term with no reelection, he was a loser one termer.

[Lancey Howard]

George Bush sat there like a punching bag for eight years, never having the guts to stand up and defend himself as lie after lie from the rats and their newsrooms went left unanswered. Bush’s unwillingness to stand up and fight was an eight-year slap in the face to his bewildered supporters, including me.

Dubya even let the scumbag Democrat newsrooms blame him for a freaking natural disaster. ...And the weakling is still taking the blame!

All you can do is shake your head.

[REPANDPROUDOFIT]

We live in a new world - where responding to vulgar attacks with dignity is a death sentence. The vulgar attackers are seen as cool, as dissers with strong senses of self. The victim's failure to "get down in the gutter with them" sets him up to be a source of ridicule, not admiration.

I, too, wish Bush would have responded strongly to the unfair and brutal attacks directed at him. It would have done no good - they would have brutalized him for acting "unpresidential"! It was a lose-lose situation and it continues today. Republicans are damned if they do, and damned if the don't!

[urtax$@work]

Adding to your list:

*-GWB never sought the arrest/prosecution of Sandy Berger for theft. ( my dream was to see SB manhandled out the door with cuffed hands raised above his head).

**-GWB never had Jamie Gorelick nailed /grilled for her "wall" built between FBI/CIA

***-GWB played wayyyyyyyyyyy too nice with the opposition.

But we knew something was up when he used the words "passionate conservative" in his first election.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Can anyone imagine Romney putting up with that crap?"

Sure. Romney is just another Arlen Specter (i.e. "up East" Republican). Trying to sell Romney as anything other than the liberal that he is wasting your (and my) time.