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Republicans what is your view of GW Bush? Would it be a good idea for the republican party to distance itself from GW Bush as he did not live up to all the promises of many republican supporters?
Of course many on the US Right feel betrayed by the Bush administration's version of conservatism, just as many Democrats felt betrayed by Carter's liberalism.
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Republicans what is your view of GW Bush? Would it be a good idea for the republican party to distance itself from GW Bush as he did not live up to the promises of many republican supporters?
President Bush disappointed me with spending (he signed just about everything) and illegal immigration. Otherwise I liked him a lot and I liked him as a person. President Obama is obsessed with him and thinks about him far more than I do. Republicans don't have to distance themselves from him. He's a former two-term President and should be treated like any other former president.
Republicans what is your view of GW Bush? Would it be a good idea for the republican party to distance itself from GW Bush as he did not live up to all the promises of many republican supporters?
In case you haven't noticed, Bush has been out of office for a year. There is no distancing necessary. If the democrats want to run against Bush, fine with me...it worked so well in NJ, VA and Mass.
Republicans what is your view of GW Bush? Would it be a good idea for the republican party to distance itself from GW Bush as he did not live up to all the promises of many republican supporters?
Of course many on the US Right feel betrayed by the Bush administration's version of conservatism, just as many Democrats felt betrayed by Carter's liberalism.
I appreciate him. He opened my eyes to see what the Republican party is really all about:
Catering to the Evangelical neocon nationbuilders.
I have never liked Bush or his daddy and never voted for a Bush.Both of them were good at spewing conservative talking points but were nothing but Rockefeller moderate {R}s.The Bush's have done more damage to the {R} party then any pair I can think of.
The both of them swung left,old man Bush with his"No new Taxes "and then raising them.Hmmm,I thought it was a conservative position that more money in the private sector leads to economic growth and that the gvt was over bloated and needed to shrink.
Then Bush gets with of all people Ted Kennedy and starts another socialist program prescription drugs and called Ted a great legislature.How about supporting Amnesty for illegals?How bout the bank bail out,where he said he had to interfere with the free market in order to save it.Yeah right!!!! Lmao
Most {R}s say that the running up the debt was because of the wars,but they can not point to any cuts or decrease in spending in other parts of the budget.If this is what the {R} posters call conservative count me out I know fakes when I see them.
I did vote for Bush, largely because I saw him as the lesser of two evils. I do wish there had been a better option. As a fiscally conservative agnostic with a strong libertarian bent, I disliked his pandering to the evangelical branch of the Republican party, his weak stand at reigning in congress's uncontrolled spending, expansion of the federal goverment (both in size ($$ and manpower) and power) and his weakness in supporting reasonable control of criminal imigration.
On the other hand, I believe he is a fundimentally decent man and a true believing Christian, I don't think his religious affiliation was utilized as a political tool. I also believe he had the courage to stand by the bulk of his convictions and not bend to the most convenient political winds. And with 9/11 he faced one of the worst crises this country has endured and did so with a degree of grace under pressure.
I am glad Bush is out of office. He did a lot of harm to the republican party. Unfortunately because of one man many liberals now have a knee-jerk, ill-informed opinion of the republican party (see what cleanhouse posted above).
I would ask liberals to be intelligent and not judge an entire party by one man's actions. Please do not follow the ignorant views of those such as cleanhouse.
Dubya:
Great on terrorism.
Atrocious on small gov. and fiscal responsibility. His increases in spending have allowed the Dems. to effectively campaign on the slogan 'Bush was bad so it's OK for us to be a whole lot worse!".
Only a fool would blame Bush for 9/11. Oh yeah I forgot.........
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