I also really like Dubya (there has never been a perfect President). My two "kids" were both in uniform during Dubya's Administration, and I always knew that he had sincere concern for those who were serving. I also really like GHWB, and of course not, not, not Jeb (amnesty and common core are not 2016 GOP issues to support. Jeb has no chance of the nom.).
I fully realize that this is politics, and that there is much that I do not know.
That said...can't these two get along?
“can’t these two get along?”
Well, they were “getting along” just fine until GWB had to say he dislikes Cruz. Kind of hard to “get along” with someone who is insulting and disparaging you.
Because they believe different things.
Cruz believes that power in DC should come from the consent of the people, Bush believes that people should consent to whatever the elites tell them to. Cruz believes that the constitution is the highest human law of the land, W that the restraints on the federal government obstruct the government from creating a more Utopian society where liberty is traded for peace. Cruz believes in free market choices, Dubba in outlawing incandescent light bulbs. Cruz believes in securing borders and only legal immigration, I don't know what Bush believes, whatever it is he said in Spanish. Cruz believes that government should not pick winners and losers in the market place, Bush believes that propping up losers with a trillion tax-payer dollars is what is fair. Cruz believes that marriage is instituted by God and is limited to how God defined it. Bush believes in attending lesbian weddings to congratulate the couple. Cruz believes that a nuclear Iran is a threat to the world, Bush is still tying to pronounce nuclear.
Those who are in favor of abandoning the rule of law and changing the laws to benefit those breaking them cannot abide those who wish to retain the rule of law.
Once I figured out that GWB had decreased border and interior enforcement AFTER 9/11 and put border patrol in jail for doing their job, my opinion of him changed.
He wanted illegal aliens flooding the country as much as Barack Obama.