Lemon law
Lifer
- Nov 6, 2005
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First of all to call Prescott Bush anything but a robber baron republican is nothing but revisionist history. But by today's standards Eisenhower would be a far left liberal simply because America has had a slow and steady rightward drift for the last 60 years or so.
IMHO, this is a large part of why the USA is in decline, but that is quite another debate that should remain external to this thread.
In terms of our OP's argument that by today's standards GHB really should have been a democrat, is an debate I find little partisan insult with. But in terms of the times, GHB came from a long line of Republican Senators that tended to be more conservative than their democratic collages, but were still able to work together on a bi-partisan basis. And IMHO GHB thus was and stayed Republican. But that is just my opinion and nothing more.
And in MHO, the Rubicon we crossed actually came after GHB was no longer President in 1994. With the rise of Newt Gingrich and the radical partisan politics of the GOP way or the highway.
As for GWB, he is simply something else, almost impossible to categorize as anything but
an incompetent and misguided idiot. Like Ronald Reagan who was not exactly the swiftest intellect in the room, both still sought to do good and may have had their heart in the right place. But unlike Reagan who sought out some competent advisers who thus minimized the damage, GWB's advisers had a synergistic effect that made the Presidency of GWB much worse and thus magnified the damage done to the USA.
After making a post that does not call out and insult any anand tech poster, please resume this regularly scheduled flame war. Why can't we rationally discuss a hypothetical question?
IMHO, this is a large part of why the USA is in decline, but that is quite another debate that should remain external to this thread.
In terms of our OP's argument that by today's standards GHB really should have been a democrat, is an debate I find little partisan insult with. But in terms of the times, GHB came from a long line of Republican Senators that tended to be more conservative than their democratic collages, but were still able to work together on a bi-partisan basis. And IMHO GHB thus was and stayed Republican. But that is just my opinion and nothing more.
And in MHO, the Rubicon we crossed actually came after GHB was no longer President in 1994. With the rise of Newt Gingrich and the radical partisan politics of the GOP way or the highway.
As for GWB, he is simply something else, almost impossible to categorize as anything but
an incompetent and misguided idiot. Like Ronald Reagan who was not exactly the swiftest intellect in the room, both still sought to do good and may have had their heart in the right place. But unlike Reagan who sought out some competent advisers who thus minimized the damage, GWB's advisers had a synergistic effect that made the Presidency of GWB much worse and thus magnified the damage done to the USA.
After making a post that does not call out and insult any anand tech poster, please resume this regularly scheduled flame war. Why can't we rationally discuss a hypothetical question?
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