[Nik Naym]

“The first George Bush is the reason were in this mess

Tossed the Reagan agenda the first day he was elected”

Glad I am not the only one who has been saying this...for over 20 years.

I regard Bush Senior’s “Kinder gentler “ speech to be one of THE biggest turning points in our history. I remember when I heard him say it (very soon after he took office) and thinking “This dumb ass just rejected Reagan and everything that was the reason we elected him “. And then I saw what he did when he took over. And then he caved on a tax increase. And then I knew the Republican party was dead and useless. And that we were screwed. I just did not, at the time, realise just how MUCH we were screwed.

[libh8er]

Why did Reagan even pick Bush to be his running mate ? Were there no warning signs ?

[Ancesthntr]

” “The first George Bush is the reason were in this mess

Tossed the Reagan agenda the first day he was elected”

Glad I am not the only one who has been saying this...for over 20 years.

I regard Bush Senior’s “Kinder gentler “ speech to be one of THE biggest turning points in our history. I remember when I heard him say it (very soon after he took office) and thinking “This dumb ass just rejected Reagan and everything that was the reason we elected him “. And then I saw what he did when he took over. And then he caved on a tax increase. And then I knew the Republican party was dead and useless. And that we were screwed. I just did not, at the time, realise just how MUCH we were screwed.”

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I could not agree more. To compound it, the guy just let half a million of the best trained, best equipped soldiers in the world, led by one of the greatest tactical geniuses that ever commanded a large army - a force that NO NATION, EVER could have stopped without tactical nukes - sit around with their thumbs up their rumps while Saddam Hussein murdered tens of thousands of Kurds (whom we promised autonomy in return for allying with us against Hussein) with helicopter gunships and gas. A more shameful display of impotence and immorality I’ve never seen in my life - something that Reagan would NEVER have done.

To top it all off, he showed how utterly detached he was by expressing amazement at the bar code scanner at some store where he went to buy Christmas gifts - YEARS after they had been introduced pretty much everywhere.

I thought, during the ‘88 campaign, that Bush would be Reagan’s 3rd term, that he had learned over the past 8 years of working closely with Reagan about what actually worked, and also a bit about the dignity of the average person (because that is who Reagan was, at heart). Nope, old Country Club Bush reappeared, and we got Clinton as a result. Had he been more Reaganesque, he’d have been a 2-termer, and Hillary Clinton would be a disbarred, ex-con, ex-wife of some no-name philandering governor of a hick state. Stupid, arrogant bastard.

While there were/are some very good characteristics that members of the Bush family have as individuals (for example, they treat those who serve them with incredibly great respect), true humility isn’t one of them - they believe that they have been placed here to rule over us. I hope that this campaign ends the family involvement in power at the national level. The Adams, Harrison, Roosevelt and Kennedy families had their decades in the sun, and then their time passed. Well, now the same is happening to the Bush family, and I rejoice. We are not England, to be ruled by an aristocracy of privileged families.