Bush Sr.’s intellect has clearly seen better days.
41 is no dummy. He has good points and bad points. All of the Bushes seem to suffer from that liberal disease of being overly emotional. “Kinder Gentler” “Uniter not divider” “Compassionate Conservative” and Jeb who is working on his own version of it.
Regardless of that flaw (and I fault 41 for not being pro Reagan early on), I still say 43 erred in picking Cheney. I wanted him to pick J.C. Watts. My how things would have played out differently if Republicans had offered a black VP. Instead the Dems offered a half black pres and race relations have been set back decades.
As for terrorism, everyone thinks they can rewrite things now, viewing it from hindsight. At the time the country was actually remarkably united around the first portion of our military response. Division started with the Iraq involvement. But even then people were proud of the shock and awe thing. Iraqis were celebrating. Things were pretty good and moving forward until Obama withdrew troops and set everything back decades.
Conclusion: Obama is not a progressive but a regressive. Cheney was a self server who brought the who country pro-homo stuff just to accommodate his own wayward child. On foreign affairs, I suspect his motives may have been corrupted. I have no proof other than evidence of a corrupt character. He was smart enough and well connected enough to get away with it.
The Buses are too emotional, squishy, feely....