Posted on 06/12/2024 7:25:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Today marks the centenary of the birth of George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president of the United States. With one exception — his eldest son in 2004 — he is the last Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote.
He was a remarkable man in many ways, having been decorated as a U.S. Navy pilot during World War II, and his resume before the presidency was broad. After becoming a successful oil executive, he was a two-term congressman, unsuccessful candidate for the Senate, ambassador to the United Nations and to China, chairman of the Republican National Committee and director of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Bush seems now a figure of a truly bygone age. He was a relatively low-key vice president to Ronald Reagan by choice rather than imposition, learning from his Democratic predecessor Walter Mondale that being effective as VP in Washington owed a lot to avoiding conflict with White House staff and cabinet secretaries. He was also aware that the previous Republican vice president, Nelson Rockefeller, had become mired in disputes with other members of the administration by trying to insert himself into the decision-making process.
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But in 1992, GHWB promoted a ‘Service Economy’ that was detailed by Ross Perot, you know, that giant sucking sound? We lost our Value Creation economy and are wasting away our natural resources.
I guess President Trump doesn't count ....
Why is he the last WASP POTUS? Why aren’t Clinton or Chimpy not WASPs? Why isn’t Trump considered a WASP? What kind of nonsense is that?
Trump did not win the popular vote, but Chimpy Bush did.
That was Reagan’s coattails.
Look who Chimpy ran against.
Chimpy ran against a horse.
GHWB and Clinton were two sides of the same coin.
Bush may have been the last WASP President in a country that was no longer WASP by the 1970s
Wow. The Hill has nothing to talk about. What an idiotic headline
What do you Mena by that?
Was a real (ignorant) fan of G. H. W. Bush, considering the many things he did his career, not the least of which his naval service during WWII.
But, the allegations made by Heather Lind of him copping a feel (while he was in his wheelchair), that were later corroborated and he apologized for, really swayed my opinion of him. Turns out he has skeletons like most every other politician . . .
[426 electoral votes in 1988 for Bush. I wonder if we will ever see that again.]
President trump did not win the popular vote either time.
Well played, Sir!
That was before democrats learned how to cheat.
Who would have been a better VP?
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