With due respect, Bush was presiding over the biggest recession since the Depression when voters went to the polls in 2008. Stock market was diving and there was fear of bank runs. He was so unpopular the GOP didn’t want him at the 2008 GOP convention. And no GOP candidate wanted Bush campaigning with him. There was a woman carrying a sign outside the GOP convention that said “McCain = Bush” . The delegates booed her, assuming - rightly - that she was a Democrat. But would they have booed if the sign said “McCain = Reagan”? No, because Reagan was popular, but the public hated Bush and the GOP was afraid to be associated with him.
And the idiot McCain took a dive. Same with the liberal Romney.
And, with all due respect, none of that has anything whatsoever to do with the topic of this thread which is the turncoat liberaltarian Rand Paul siding with the race pimps against America.