George W. Bush, October 19th, 2017
Posted on 10/20/2017 2:35:30 AM PDT by markomalley
Laura Ingraham was credited on Thursday night by both presidential aide Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, President Donald Trump’s former White House strategist, for helping to guide the national populist movement that rallied around Trump.
Bannon and Miller made their remarks at the “Breitbart embassy,” the old Washington townhouse on Capitol Hill where many Breitbart staffers work. Ingraham was there to promote her new book, “Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump,” which details the rise of the populist conservative movement from President Ronald Reagan to Trump.
Speaking to about 150 people in the slim townhouse suite, Bannon wore a big smile, three shirts and a blazer when he introduced Ingraham, a longtime friend he said helped him plot Brexit and an economic nationalist agenda that includes better trade deals and a crackdown on illegal immigration.
Bannon credited Ingraham with bringing together people who could articulate a case on the conservative side and make an impact during the Republican primary. Ingraham had attended some of the dinners where Bannon met with then-U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and an even younger Miller to discuss illegal immigration and bad trade policy.
Sessions and Miller would go on with Ingraham to advise Trump on his insurgent 2016 presidential campaign. Bannon said that's why he invited Ingraham to talk about her book at the Breitbart townhouse.
"We just thought it was appropriate given everything that has happened in this house for the launch of this movement, that the definitive real history of the populist movement since President Reagan -- it's amazing," said Bannon, gesturing to Ingraham. "There really hasn't been a history of populism and nationalism until (Ingraham) conceived of the idea with Adam Bellow ... This book is the definitive book."
Bannon said Ingraham's talent was key to the 2016 win and the Trump agenda. He noted that Ingraham, the editor-in-chief of LifeZette, is soon starting her own show on Fox News, "The Ingraham Angle," on Oct. 30, where she'll take over the 10 p.m. slot. Ingraham also hosts "The Laura Ingraham Show" on radio.
"I don't know how you do it all," said Bannon, crediting Ingraham with keeping the populist effort alive. "You're an extraordinary talent. The country, President Trump and our movement would not be here today if you were not the queen of it."
Ingraham criticized former President George W. Bush, who said on Thursday that bigotry had become emboldened of late. Bush was suggesting Trump was responsible, said Ingraham.
"Sadly, George W. Bush launched a speech which was an attack on populism, this movement and Donald Trump," said Ingraham. "I think it's sad that a man who left office with a 29 percent approval rating would be so willingly used by the current media to attack a sitting president. When we see a run-up in the stock market, consumer confidence up, unemployment at a low we haven't seen since 1974 -- this is the day that George W. Bush decided to slap this movement in the face."
Ingraham quoted Bannon, saying Bush's remark shows the Establishment "will not give up without a fight."
Ingraham said she is familiar with nervous Establishment types like Bush: The first time she came to Washington in April 1982, driving with fellow student Dinesh D'Souza from Dartmouth College, was to visit Reagan adviser Pat Buchanan, who served on the board of her college newspaper. Buchanan told her he would stay on the board despite the fact some Republicans were dropping off as advisers because the paper, the Dartmouth Review, was deemed too controversial.
Buchanan stayed with the Dartmouth Review along with R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. of The American Spectator, also a scrappy conservative.
"That was literally my first experience" with nervous Establishment types, she joked. The newspaper succeeded in getting the ROTC brought back to campus.
Ingraham went on to work for Bill Bennett in the Reagan administration, get her law degree, start her radio show, and become a frequent guest on Fox News.
Miller thanked Ingraham for giving hope to millions of Americans hurt by bad economic policy.
Ingraham, in addition to being the founder and editor-in-chief of LifeZette, has written several New York Times best-sellers, including "Of Thee I Zing" and "Power to the People." She has hosted "The Laura Ingraham Show" since 2001, becoming the most-listened-to female radio talk-show host in the nation.
Ingraham will begin hosting "The Ingraham Angle" on Fox News on October 30. The show will air every weekday night at 10 p.m. EST.
A slap in the face to America.
NO Bush is s conservative.
No Bush is an America Firster.
The Bush’s are liars and full of shit.
George W. Bush, October 19th, 2017
He TRIED to slap the movement. Laura Ingraham is correctly shocked that Bush would even speak after 8 years of silence, but only the leftist media thinks Bush criticizing populism will register at all.
In fact, it rallies us. This movement of non-neocon, non-globalist conservatives, libertarians, and independents is here to stay.
W needs to stick to his painting and work with disabled vets and wounded warriors . If W had nothing to say during 8 years of Obama then he sure don’t have nothing to say now ....
PING!
I hope the book starts a little before Reagan and 1980. To me, a better starting point might be Phyllis Schlafly and the Eagle Forum and direct mail campaign to stop the Equal Rights Amendment, which was basically the first use of alternative media for a political effort.
The Bush family are NWO SOCIALISTS, his dad and he were a disgrace to conservatives.
Now will Rove and Gingrich blast Bush for not supporting a fellow Republican? They blasted Bannon for that very reason.
“A slap in the face to America”
No question about it. The Bush’s, Obama’s, Clinton’s, are all swamp dwellers along with their enablers, hangers on and so on. They all need to be flushed down the toilet. Hope Trump keeps at draining the swamp, won’t be easy as the swamp creatures are screaming and striking about like crazy but it’s gotta be done.
As a conservative, I feel sad as I think back on the rise and fall of the Bush’s. I have just come to the conclusion that family dynasties are not good for this country. They start out with the right vision, the right character, goals, historical insights and knowledge about how our nation retains freedom and then the fame and fortune seems to come into play. Sometimes the values which their children adopt change the parents, as well. Could that have happened to George Bush? Sometimes, it is the wife who calls the shots. And, sometimes, it is just living in that bubble which blinds and changes who we thought people were. Sometimes, they were just not who we thought they were from the beginning. The hatred for Donald Trump has taken on Biblical proportions. Reading from the book of Esther this a.m., I was struck by the character of powerful Haman who went to extraordinary lengths to destroy the Jews from among that population, I couldn’t help but think about the attacks coming from the entrenched power structure against Donald Trump and of how similar they are to the devices of the evil Haman. I have to believe that President Trump truly must be appointed by God to lead this nation at this time in history for the forces coming against him seem to be simply diabolical. Will God make a move to correct the “in our faces” injustices coming against this man. We shall see.
Fortunately, I think the plague of Bushes in Republican politics has ended. They are a family without a constituency who have no loyalty whatsoever to the base of the Party - witness the dolt’s speech yesterday and the old man’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton. They are a group of phony poseurs who would have been nowhere but for Reagan, whom they rewarded with disdain - Bush Sr. lost twice statewide for a Senate seat in Texas, against lightweights Yarborough and Bentsen. The Bushes serve as useful idiots for the left.
Apparently ,, the Bush’s are very poor losers .
0bama attacked Junior Bush for almost 9 years and junior said nothing and now he decides to attack DJT and the 60+ millions who voted for him . Bad losers .
Globalism = Communism
The Bushes were Establishment criminals from the start.
Poppy made it to veep as a forced sop to the GOPe that had tried like the devil to stop Reagan completely but couldn’t.
To hell with the Bushes. All of them.
I lost all respect for Bush with his shocking silence while Obama pulled the drain plug in Iraq. 8 years of Bush-led American blood and treasure that built a huge strategic advantage in the middle east swirled down the drain...in vain.
He chose to kneel to the alter of political correctness, and never showed even the slightest sign of a wince.
It still baffles me to this day.
Bush gave us Medicare part D which has seen tremendous escalation in drug prices and huge profits for big pharma. He did this for his “buddy” Teddy Kennedy who was a reprobate that got away with manslaughter. The political elites have been selling us down the river for at least the last 30 years. God bless President Donald Trump.
We were vigilantes before we were Deplorable populists.
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