A needless worry IMO. GWB should have worried more about what he was doing to the country while he was President. From what I’ve read, he wasn’t too “Republican-like” himself with regard to spending, let alone the invasion of Iraq.cnn.com/2016/07/19/politics/george-w-bush-last-republican-president/
Interesting article. George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, and John McCain all skipped out on this years GOP convention.
True. Really, all presidents should be focusing on what’s going on! That’s the job of a president, and hopefully, that’s how it will always be.A needless worry IMO. GWB should have worried more about what he was doing to the country while he was President. From what I’ve read, he wasn’t too “Republican-like” himself with regard to spending, let alone the invasion of Iraq.
I think Republicans in general don’t have that good of a track record when it comes to spending. They talk a good game about the need for fiscal responsibility, but they are rarely fiscally responsible.A needless worry IMO. GWB should have worried more about what he was doing to the country while he was President. From what I’ve read, he wasn’t too “Republican-like” himself with regard to spending, let alone the invasion of Iraq.
George Bush took us to war and made our grandchildren pay for it. There is nothing redeeming nor charitable in that. The worst part about it was that there was no reason for the current generation not to pay for the war. We could have easily raised taxes to pay for it. Then those who supported the war could have put their money where their mouths are. But to go to war and stick someone else with the bill is immoral. I have yet to hear a coherent reason why the future generation ought to pay for the war, talk about taxation without representation!Of course, the large deficits of the Bush years were on account of the fact that the presidency of GWB turned out to be a war presidency. Americans understood this well enough when they signed on for his second term.
That spending is on the American people themselves therefore, and to their credit too. Altruistic sacrifice of blood and money in an attempt to make the lives of others better is what makes America an exceptional nation. Conservative Americans will not put balanced check books in front of altruism, and that is something that conservatives outside of America will never hold against neither GWB nor Americans in general.
No-one is arguing about that.Time will tell. There are pro-life Democrats and socially conservative Democrats, too, but those are few in number.
However, remember Romans 13:1. We must obey the governing authorities and God placed them there.
Bush dealt those blows. He destroyed a viable party.Conservatism has been dealt some major blows since Bush left office.
Obama also dealt the blows with his agenda.Bush dealt those blows. He destroyed a viable party.
Obama is a Democrat. If he destroyed the GOP, it was already at death’s door when he showed up.Obama also dealt the blows with his agenda.
One thing we can be sure of is that the Republican Party will NOT go ‘quietly into the night’ so long as Donald Trump, purported captain, is leading the charge.No-one is arguing about that.
Personally, I am thoroughly disgusted with the entire wheel of governance and the drive to return to aristocracy, as represented by the male candidate in this campaign, but like a third of a billion others I will have to put up with it and count it toward my penance.
The GOP has become an afterthought anyway as major state after major state has become a Democratic lock, so maybe it’s best if they go “quietly into the night” and as in 1856, a new party banner rises.
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If they were, the Republican Party would be on its way to a probable victory in November.Are ALL US Catholics socially conservative ? Are ALL US Catholics pro-gun ? Are ALL US Catholics illiberal ?
The republican party does have a credibility problem. They claim to be for small government, but in reality they are a big government party. The ate the low hanging fruit of tax cuts to the point where tax cuts have little impact on the economy in the presence of deficits. On the other hand, there is a sizable fraction that would not vote for democrats no matter what, so they are not going away any time soon.I don’t see the demise of the Republican Party. Even if Trump wins or loses. For the party to fracture completely you need a really divisive set of issues; and I don’t see them.
The Republican Party (at least until Trump) has been for the last 65 years mostly the party of big business. Whatever helps big business, is what the party is for, and whatever hurts big business is what the party is against.The republican party does have a credibility problem. They claim to be for small government, but in reality they are a big government party. The ate the low hanging fruit of tax cuts to the point where tax cuts have little impact on the economy in the presence of deficits. On the other hand, there is a sizable fraction that would not vote for democrats no matter what, so they are not going away any time soon.
Actually the Tea Party may have played a role in carrying Donald Trump to the nomination.Compassionate conservatism is what Bush ran on. and that was rejected with the rise of the Tea party.
The Tea party itself has never carried a candidate to the presidency. or even through the nomination process for candidacy for presidential office. The fiscal conservatism of the Tea party movement was able to carry Republicans to congressional majorities, but not to the WH. GWB was simply not of the Tea party movement, and neither is Donald Trump.
Frankly, I don’t think the Dems are any different when it comes to this, and are imaginably even more so.The Republican Party (at least until Trump) has been for the last 65 years mostly the party of big business. Whatever helps big business, is what the party is for, and whatever hurts big business is what the party is against.