“Rudy was reviled for his views on abortion, where as Bush-43 was praised for his pro-life views”.
Nothing to praise Bush for on abortion. His website his entire career said “he values the sanctity of life and believes all life is sacred”. Except that was a lie. If you were born of rape or incest your life was expendable in Bushie land.
I also remind everyone that Bush started the “diversity” nonsense in the VA where they started making employees go to training classes to learn how to “get along” with homosexuals in the work place and patients. Like VA employees were idiots and had to be taught how to get along with others. Under Bush the VA cut some many services I couldn’t keep track of them. When he took office the co-pay for non-SC was $3. When he left it was $8. Under Bush the VA quit accepting new patients unless they had a SC disability. The “compassionate” conservative was nothing in the world but another warmongering liberal. And he’s the reason we now have Obama.
We got took.
Even I failed to see the blunder of invading Iraq at the time. That was my first major error in gauging geo-political impact of events. In 20-20 hind-sight, it is now obvious that if Saddam & sons were left alone, there would be no ISIS, no Libya invasion by Obama/Hillary, no Islamic takeover in Yemen, and no civil war in Syria. Not to mention loss of blood and Treasure for United States with borrowed money from China.