GW Bush was no conservative president, but his genuine dignity, character and love of America has been sorely (and criminally) lacking for six-and-a-half years.
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“stay outta the bushes ” vile peeps all gw – !jeb!
Bah humbug Nr,
He wasn’t everything we’d prefer in a politician
but,
Vile peeps don’t show up at Army base hospitals minutes after a jihadi attack (while the current CIC plans for Indian Chief shoutouts).
Vile peeps don’t hold unpublicized bicycle race events for wounded warriors.
Vile peeps don’t hug little girls mourning the loss of their mother on 911
and
Vile peeps don’t show up for Thanksgiving dinner IN A COMBAT ZONE!
No links; do your own searches.
the time to rehabilitate gw is *after* his obnoxious hyper-entitled p.o.s. lil brother is no longer a threat to all we hold sacred
Sorry, I don’t put conditions on standing up for virtue.
that’s ok I got your back
>No links; do your own searches.<
vile peeps do what the bush family wants done: moar rethuglican proggtardia. w be good at that. moar !jeb! !!11!! now
“Sorry, I don’t put conditions on standing up for virtue ”
well W bush kinda sucks at that. he be a proggtarded ahole with good clown gop propaganda like !jeb!
The bush family will fade from public view. Jeb because he’s a small man and G. W. the opposite.
And your billionaire hero is the consummate conservative?
danger,
when scooter libby is taken down for a trivial cause while hilarity is free, i decided not to play this game anymore. fuck the ruining class.
“The bush family will fade from public view”
no the proggtarded rethuglicans own the party now. fuck them and their supporters.
nr
Even Oscar Schindler had his moment of virtue. GW is neither vile, vain nor a progtardia and his behavior during 9/11 and in the months after were genuine.
Stop spitting on graves.
“And your billionaire hero is the consummate conservative? ”
nah holding pattern while we set up art v convention
Scooter Libby’s treatment was disturbing. I’d put most of that on an out of control prosecutor.
G.W. did commute his prison service but a pardon would have been more just.
As for Hillary, I’m pretty sure that there’s a special circle in hell reserved for her type.
yeah the bitch circle
“. GW is neither vile, vain nor a progtardia and his behavior during 9/11 and in the months after were genuine.
Stop spitting on graves.”
thanks for ad hom attack. the bush family has been running the gop since 1989. they have done nothing but do the proggtard agenda lite. fuck the harvard/yale/princeton ” ruining class”
” I’d put most of that on an out of control prosecutor. ”
some dude from chitown funny dat
Of both Georges Bush, I say that their best qualities were also reasons why it might have been better had they not become president, but instead someone whose basic goodness and decency was tempered with a hint of bloodlust. Just a hint.
the bush family has been running the gop since 1989
yeah and Prescott Bush was Hitler’s towel boy.
#eyeroll
Too late for a holding pattern. The train is off the tracks and barreling down on us.
Were gonna need a street-wise Hercules to fight the overwhelming odds. Article V conventions don’t spring up by themselves.
sumthing again
Who am I? – Casting Crowns
“someone whose basic goodness and decency was tempered with a hint of bloodlust. Just a hint”
Ted Cruz? Bobby Jindahl?
(Great line about Trump not reading the bible… CUZ HE’S NOT IN IT!)
“yeah and Prescott Bush was Hitler’s towel boy.
#eyeroll
”
so with a republican congress and a republican president , from 2001 -2006, there be small gov’t? w be ok but his clan sucks.
Ted Cruz got Kim Davis all up in his wizzle-wazzle
you spelled Jindal wrong
Trump is depressing cause he’s trashy and disgusting
but what people don’t understand is, he’s right now already a de facto third party
and it’s time for one of them, the R’s being so lame and weird and the D’s so so so totalitarian
>(Great line about Trump not reading the bible… CUZ HE’S NOT IN IT!) <
yo bobby j. mr. "policy wonk" debate him on policy – loser
“Ted Cruz got Kim Davis all up in his wizzle-wazzle”
yea 10th amendment rights do dat
oh sweet mother of all that’s awkward and dysfunctional
that’s your republican party kids
trump can more than hang with these losers
and that’s very very sad
“trump can more than hang with these losers”
the pervert lobby speaks. go away anti darwins
Danger wrote: As for Hillary, I’m pretty sure that there’s a special circle in hell reserved for her type.
The Ninth would suit her rather well.
There are three ways a president could respond to an attack like 9/11.
1. Seeking revenge. Given any honest assessment of how Donald Trump reacts when merely criticized, I think this is what we would expect if another outrageous attack is directed at our country on his watch. While initially satisfying, it could easily inflame not only the Muslim world but what remains of our friends and allies elsewhere in the world, leaving us isolated.
2. Seeking peace. Asking “why do they hate us?” and being more concerned about “backlash” than about punishing those responsible for the attack itself. Supporting, however inadvertantly (or deliberately) those who argue that we had it coming. If a military response is undertaken, it is justified solely on the basis that the enemy must be rendered incapable of continuing to attack, even if it means he remains committed to resuming the attack someday later, and may even be remotivated by what he perceives as the weakness of our response. I think this is how the Presidents Bush operated, though Dubya certainly tried to convince the American people he was:
3. Seeking justice. You not only deprive the enemy of the ability to continue attacking, you demonstrate the futility of doing so, and thus deprive him of the desire.
Unfortunately, Dubya divided his GWOT between taking on the proximate source of the 9/11 attack and pursuing unfinished business against Saddam Hussein. Politically it was a shrewd move, and Saddam was very much a piece of unfinished business, not only for his father but for America and the civilized world. But it would never have been left unfinished had 41 been willing to finish it himself.
McG,
I guess that would classify Obama as collaborating with the enemy under the guise of seeking peace.
Ted Cruz got Kim Davis all up in his wizzle-wazzle
Rights are rights we don’t reserve them only for people we like. Miranda was jerk and a criminal.
I could live with a liberal as long as he put country first. We have not had that for the last 6 years.
Danger: Yup.
H. Bush was a party man back when that was something you could be proud of. He was forced on Reagan by the establishment before the establishment was even a concept (at least to we average blue collar republican voters). He flew fighter bombers off aircraft carriers in the war against fascism. He wasn’t vile. Yet he undid everything Reagan did, by returning to the establishment control, and thus getting his ass thrown out of office by betrayed Reagan voters, who also promptly voted in Newt and the boys.
W. Bush sold us on ‘compassionate conservitatism’ , and intered office a literal heir of the establishment, while inheriting a majority Republican Congress. Between ’94 and 2000 however, Newt got caught with his pants down, and the rest succumbed to DC lobbiests dragging them into the elite ruling class.
9/11 focused us (rightly) on retaliating, so we didn’t realize Washington retaliated by clamping down on US, as well as fighting a war on (not ‘terror’ you morons, ‘fanatic Islam’) terror. Compassionate Conservituves can’t hurt Muslims feelings you see.
So while Americans paid the price to make Iraqis free, way above and beyond what we needed to, we also got a whole new policing agency that essentially removed the separation between FBI and CIA functions. We get strip searched at the airport, and taught the language of political correctness, lest Mo get depicted
in a bad light.By 2006 we started to see the game, and the Republican Conress lost the voters that would become known as the TEA Party.
W Bush, reelected mostly because of the war, was the lamest of lame ducks. I really believe he had Americas interests at heart, but he didn’t have enough heart to sell his own actions. Not a vile person, but I don’t think he was that good of a president. Mostly because the Rebublican Congress became a corrupt establishment machine and W had his hands tied to a large extent by the very elite that put him there.
This election I don’t take too seriously. The country is so far gone Zombie George Washington and Vice Zombie Reagan couldn’t put it back together again. The people are so divided the only common core left is a federal brain washing scheme forced on school children. Bureaucracies and judges create more laws than the legislature. We are ruled as subjects and treated less important than illegal aliens. The rule of law has become a tool of tyranny (the marriage license lady goes to jail and Lois Learner is free as a bird?).
Personally, the only compelling straw to grasp is the party outsiders are trouncing the establishment hacks. Within that group, only one can be considered totally free of the party machine.
“While initially satisfying, it could easily inflame not only the Muslim world but what remains of our friends and allies elsewhere in the world, leaving us isolated. ”
that’s bad why? aren’t we “isolated” now? who are allies now under proggtardia rule?
i agree one hundred percent with the sentiments expressed by Mr. Lee
There are many ways to become isolated. Childish behavior in an adult setting can take on many forms, from blowhardiness to brown-nosing, to yellow-hamstering.