George H.W. Bush was the exact political opposite of Donald Trump

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signalmankenneth

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(CNN)George H.W. Bush would never have been elected to anything in the modern Republican Party.

It's not because the former president, who died at age 94 on Friday, wasn't a "real" Republican. Bush believed in lower taxes, a smaller federal government and a robust military -- the general principles that, until the last few years, have defined modern conservatism.

It's because of Bush's approach to politics. He was not a fire-breather. His first instinct was not to vilify anyone who disagreed with him. He believed in the idea that good people can disagree. He saw compromise as a reasonable goal of government.

In the modern parlance of Republican politics, Bush's gentility would be read as insufficient commitment to the conservative cause. He would be labeled a "RINO" (Republican In Name Only) for his dalliances with Democrats on policy.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/01/politics/george-h-w-bush-donald-trump-republican-party/index.html

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Its hilarious to watch libs suddenly revere formerly hated political figures, simply because they spoke out against Trump.
 
Surely the Republicans knew that comparisons to Donald Trump and legitimate presidents were going to come up-

-because I knew they were coming just as sure as the sun comes up dawning it's day!

Thank You Very Much!
 
I never thought I would ever use the words "presidents and precedents" in the same sentence.

But now, I can clearly see you can't have one without the other!

And it is also obvious that Donald Trump does not even know what presidents or precedents even are!

He is a failure- a bastardization- an abomination of both!
 
countryboy said:
Its hilarious to watch libs suddenly revere formerly hated political figures, simply because they spoke out against Trump.
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Some Trump suckers on this forum are cheering. They took offense when George H W Bush called a blowhard a blowhard.

So what's left of the GOP? Unless they show some guts, nothing. What an epitaph: it started with Lincoln and it ended with Trump.
 
Trump can never compare favorably to legitimate presidents.

To those who know you are a Trumpanzee, the future will be like you going on your daily rounds with the worst purple birth mark on your whole face.

Everyone, to your shame and their horror, will know who and what you are.
 
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jimmymccready said:
Trump can never compare favorably to legitimate presidents.

To those who know you are a Trumpanzee, the future will be like you going on your daily rounds with the worst purple birth mark on you whole face.

Everyone, to your shame and their horror, will know who and what you are.
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100% b.s. George H.W. Bush was a racist man who hated facts like all Republicans. You can try and make him honorable in death but it doesn't take away the real feelings.
 
Tranquillus in Exile said:
Some Trump suckers on this forum are cheering. They took offense when George H W Bush called a blowhard a blowhard.

So what's left of the GOP? Unless they show some guts, nothing. What an epitaph: it started with Lincoln and it ended with Trump.
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the right has always trashed him for raising taxes when they needed to be raised
 
World Leaders Mourn George H.W. Bush—and His Republican Party

“It’s easy to sigh and say George H.W. Bush belonged to an era that is gone and never coming back.”

The 41st president of the United States, George H.W. Bush, died Friday at age 94. World leaders have not directly mentioned President Donald Trump and the dangers of isolationist policies in their flood of statements, but it’s impossible to remember Bush’s own words calling for a “kinder, gentler nation” and read the memorials to Bush—a veteran of World War II, ambassador to the United Nations, director of the CIA, envoy to China, and vice president—without thinking of how far the Republican Party has shifted since his one-term presidency.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/george-hw-bush-dead-obama-clinton-trump-letter/

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signalmankenneth said:
(CNN)George H.W. Bush would never have been elected to anything in the modern Republican Party.

It's not because the former president, who died at age 94 on Friday, wasn't a "real" Republican. Bush believed in lower taxes, a smaller federal government and a robust military -- the general principles that, until the last few years, have defined modern conservatism.

It's because of Bush's approach to politics. He was not a fire-breather. His first instinct was not to vilify anyone who disagreed with him. He believed in the idea that good people can disagree. He saw compromise as a reasonable goal of government.

In the modern parlance of Republican politics, Bush's gentility would be read as insufficient commitment to the conservative cause. He would be labeled a "RINO" (Republican In Name Only) for his dalliances with Democrats on policy.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/01/politics/george-h-w-bush-donald-trump-republican-party/index.html

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Bullshit......Bush was as deep state as it gets. Truth be known he very well could have been behind JFKs hit. Just like the death of "he who can't be named" (another deep state criminal) who died on Aug 25......the nation will be better off. The era of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS and cover ups by the deep state is over, its time THE PEOPLE resumed their rightful ownership of this republic. The difference between the Clintons and the Bush's? Just the flip side of the same coin.
 
"dangers of isolationalsim" ROFL..like what? more wars? more NATO expansion?
* somebody should tell China of those "dangers"*

wasn't Bush Sr. all about "integrating China into the world market?" how is that working out fer ya?
 
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