I knew from the get-go that we were in for a rotten deal with W when he campaigned on “compassionate conservatism,” but I had no idea of just how bad he was going to be. I went from mild dislike to outright loathing when the cocky W said “See you at the signing...” (amnesty for illegals was one of the few issues where Bush was consistently animated and articulate). The icing on the cake was seeing him on the same page as Barney Frank with TARP.
Bush appointed more open homosexuals to his administration than all presidents before him, including Clinton. The VA started all this diversity nonsense under Bush, not Obama. Never forgot that. He also slashed funds to the VA to pay for his boneheaded war in Iraq. When he took office co-pays for non SC vets were $3. $8 when he left. VAs all over the country has to curtail their services because they had no money. Non-SC vets for a few years could not be seen in the VA. Only non-SC vets that could be seen were the ones already in the system that had been grandfathered in. I could go on and on. Bush was a disaster of a president, from his boneheaded war to his never vetoing speeding bills, to his slashing programs for veterans. There’s a reason veterans support Trump in South Carolina and I just layed out a few of them.