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I would love President George W Bush campaign for Romney

By: dragan (Diary)  |  July 10th, 2012 at 08:21 PM  | 

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Before people get worked up by the title of the diary, let us see if the benefits outweigh the costs

First the Cons

Obama has spent the last 3 1/2 years blaming Bush. He attributes the lack of economic growth to Bush. So with Bush campaigning, the MSM would continue this BS story. Yes I get it.

 

Now to the Pros

With Bush on the campaign trail, we would see a resurgence of American exceptionalism. Who better to lend a voice in this dangerous world than President Bush. Bush could easily articulate the tools he had left for Obama to nail Osama Bin laden. Obama’s so called foreign policy success would be obliterated when Bush clearly articulates the programs he had put in place for the next president and excoriates the apologizing tours.

Bush had/has a stronger favorability with the Latinos. If Bush could get another 3-5% of the latinos in the Swing states, Romney could happily sit pretty.

Bush’s strong religious conservative ideals could re-energize the social conservatives. The fiscal conservatives/Tea party conservatives may loathe Bush but we can live with that as our bigger goal is to get rid of Obama.

Bush has remained completely non critical of the current president and has proven to be a leader above mundane stuff. His campaigning now could boost the credibility of the Romney campaign.

 

Considering the pros and cons, shouldn’t the RNC rope in Bus to actively campaign for Romney ? With or without Bush, Obama will be blaming Bush for Obama’s failures. So why bother about this one problem and instead look at the benefits ? I am advocating for Bush to campaign as that would re-energize the base and I don’t see Romney picking a strong conservative VP or doing/saying anything that would excite the base.

I am one of those conservatives who is willing to vote for Romney but not spend/work for the Romney campaign at least for now

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  • poorwilber

    ….that Bush almost entirely represents what is wrong with the GOP. I would speculate that the spector of a Bush third term would enervate the base Romney needs to win. Romney should directly criticise the spending and expansion of the federal bureaucracy under both the Obama regime and the Bush administration.

    Bush wants out of politics. He should have been primaried in 2006 if you ask me. If not for Bush, Obama would not be President. So yes, I blame Bush for setting the conditions for this radical Marxist to capture the White House. Bush left with a 30% favorability rating, so I would seriously wonder who might be swayed by his active participation.

    • Tbone

      Blaming Bush for Obama is 10 time worse than Obama blaming Bush for his own failings.

      Grow up Sparky.

      • poorwilber

        for the GOP imploding in 2006… loosing the House and Senate, then the Presidency in 2008?

        It seems Bush intervention into the free market, nation building adventures in two countries, expanding the federal bureaucracy, adding new federal entitlements…..not to mention attempting to foist amnesty for illegal aliens once again on the American taxpayer. I suppose none of that had a thing to do with it. Compassionate Conservatism was nothing but a ruse for more big government republicanism (RINOism).

        I cannot respond directly to your point, as I don’t believe you had one.

    • Common_Cents

      Baraka would probably have been literally run out of office by now, or primaried for sure.

      I’d rather face Baraka than Billary at this point.

  • gflyer3364qt

    Bush was in Zambia painting mission centers. Also, would it have been a good idea for Clinton to have Carter campaign for him in ’92?…I didn’t think so. The election is about the economy, not Obama’s terror policies. Romney doesn’t need Bush to campaign for him. Besides, Bush wouldn’t do it anyway.

  • citizenkh

    campaign management was on Perry’s team. The other part is Rove.

    But I do get your idea because it was a great campaign.

  • otis1

    I have no doubt the BUSH’S love America and would die for it,like 41 who apparently snuck into the military underaged to do so? And when 43 wept on 9-11 while becoming a great CINC for U.S. and my son who served under him,it was as real as if Obama had lost in the same day, his CUBAN STYLE HEALTH CARE/THE VICTORY MOSQUE.

    That being said, the BUSH’S are way too sweet/respectful/trusting/weak for modern times,and seem totally oblivious to the fact that the CLINTON’S/OBAMA’S/AYERS’/SOROS’/DEMS/ETC.’S, are looking to outsource THE USA to CHINA/RUSSIA’S UN? So don’t play golf with or go on international fundraisers with them or their MSM,
    that made you and u.s. look like total fools for at least 12 years???

    ROMNEY,needs to locate his own testicles rapidly, for only 3 debates? How many primary debates did we just barely survive,(so I imagine all 3 will be on FOX NEWS, and not held at a AYERS AMERICA COLLEGE CAMPUS,so Obama can’t continue being a child predator, towards those who will be paying his bills when we old folks are rationed away/feeding the worms?).

    The BUSH’S over the next 16 short weeks,need to be explaining to America, that everything the DEMS CLAIM THEY INHERITED FROM THEM,were actually just their brief experiments into LIBERALISM and were foolish,amongst decades of intentional DEM LIBERAL FAILINGS that they wanted to inherit from Uncle Sam,and are designed to ruin America.

    • Tbone

      Congratulations.

      • gekster

        I’m still in the pool for two more weeks till he proves he’s a moby.

      • Bill S

        You should DEBATE ME, Bush lovr! I’m a LIFELONG CONSERVATIVE and you are obviously A LIBERAL PLANT. Are you another CHILD PRDATOR like OBAMA,.?

        • otis1

          You call in to 772-220-9788 at 6:08 PM,and tell Producer Mike or Frank that you think BOB/Otis is a liberal,and you want to confront him about it.And after Shaun,John,and another Mike laugh their butts off,I will join you.

          Invite your two timeline buddies above you to also call in?

          • otis1

            If you show, and YOU are actually a Conservative,we will have a great laugh over this,and probably be good friends one day,or even by the end of the show?

            If YOU are a Conservative,you will love me and our show!

          • otis1

            from your REDSTATE.com,with your girly little “one more accusation from you rule”?

            Talk to you tomorrow night BILLY?

          • CincoSolas_del_Bronx

            when it’s someone else’s property?

          • Tbone

            Sleeping it off at a radio station nowadays, evidently.

          • otis1

            when I accused my buddy JUDGE NAPOLITANO on the radio,of treating terrorists, like Andy did Otis in Mayberry?

            Now TBONE, that reminds me of the Seinfeld Episode,where George wanted to nickname himself the overused TBONE,but his boss labeled him COCO THE MONKEY.

            Sorry COCO.

          • PowerToThePeople

            claim a radio show you do not have and are now friends with someone you never met.

            The drugs they give you must be nice……………………..

          • woodie

            Is there an archive of the MC Republican Club Show? Did Bill S call in?

          • gekster

            otis under a different username.
            Only otis would be that stupid.

  • mikeymike143

    any mention of his name at a tea party gathering brings boos, and there are enough tea partiers on this site that can tell you just how unpopular he is with us. he would never had been the republican nominee in 2000 if the tea party had been around.

    and you know that big spending bush, not obama, started tarp and the big defecit spending. trust me, i cant stand the marxist currently occupying the white house, but if it wasnt for the horrible job bush did destroying the republican brand, someone like obama would never have been elected.

    and even dragan’s very pro bush diary admits that the tea party conservatives loathe bush. republicans like bush and lugar that persued liberal policies while talking ”like a conservative” are as much a problem as the dems. i am as pro republican as anybody, but we need more republicans like scott walker and jim demint and ron johnson, and less like bush and lugar.

    • Dave_A

      Just with an evil he could fight with guns & bombs, rather than the methods dictated by the Cold-War nuclear stalemate…

      Both of them spent alot of money… Their policies were nearly identical…

      Bush had the unfortunate timing to run in an election where free-drugs-for-seniors was the #1 issue, and not knowing that 9/11 would wipe all his prior campaign promises off the table, he kind of had to do Med D – you can blame the Dem senate & Jim Jeffords for the final structure of it.

      And as for TARP, it seems to have produced it’s intended result: Cleaning up Congress’s real-estate mess at no cost to taxpayers… Kind of like an ‘Improved’ RTC (you know, how the S&L crisis was handled)…

      The worst thing about Bush, was that he couldn’t do PR to save his life, and thus the left was able to set the tone on almost every major issue…

    • checkmate2012

      are a bit extreme. Yes he spent too much, but can’t you see he loved his country? He was handed 9/11. How do you think any president would react? He put together an international coalition that O can’t do in peace time! Give the guy a break.

      GWB did raise the debt too much but facts are stubborn and as of 1/31/12:

      Debt under GWB for 8 years: $4.9 Trillion; 86% increase
      Debt under BHO for 3 years: $4.73 Trillion; 45% increase

      He did the best he could with the hand that was dealt him. He didn’t do a good job on domestic policies but his mind was elsewhere, as in trying to secure our country from more attacks.

      And all Obama can do is blame him for financial failure while he prospers on his security measures. God Bless Bush for keeping us safe!

    • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

      Usually everything you say is very passionate and bit over the top. But in this case you cannot unload enough negatives on the head of G W Bush.

      Bush is the reason we got Obama, and Obama care. He simply was not a very good leader. He should not have done the Iraq war in the way he did. He should never have done the medicare and and no child left behind (and NO DaveA, Reagan would not have supported those type of bills).

      He really handled everything poorly. and remember Harriet Meyers?

      • checkmate2012

        Just how much MSNBC kool-aid have you been drinking? I suppose in your mind Obama is handling everything perfectly. Geesh.

        9/11 and 8 years of keeping you and us safe. What a horrible person that Pres. Bush was for us all. Put O in his shoes or Clinton who let Osama BL go or Carter…oh yeah, he failed at getting out citizens out of Iran. Nice.

        • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

          His many many failures, and his bizarre style of governance in which he never stood up to repeated attacks on conservatism.

          In fact part of the problem is that he really was not a conservative, so he wouldn’t defend it, or himself.

          He caused the vast majority of the independents to conclude that Republicans were ignorant of economics, and he caused the disaffection of a substantial amount of the republican base.

          So yes he is responsible along with that do-nothing McCain.

          • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

            his foreign policy kept us safe or anything of the sort. What we have now in the Middle east is a shambles, and a damn expensive one at that.

            We have not had a major successful terror attack because of heightened awareness and security after 9/11, and because of a lot of stupidity among the would be terrorists, and in some cases we just got lucky.

            Cleaning Al Qaeda out of Afghanistan was necessary, everything else, including our continued involvement there is problematic.

          • Tbone

            are akin to the consistencies of the laws of physics. I suspect there may be a Bosun of intelligence in your intellect but it will take a major effort to find it.

            Perhaps if you and your counterpart, Mikeymike of mediocrity ran into each other at full speed a single IQ point may be generated. Try it.

          • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

            They are always as funny as they are devoid of substance.

          • Tbone

            But my faith in your ineptitude is sufficient. Hebrews 11:1

  • audax

    …why would he start now? I like Bush as a person, but anyone stupid enough to destroy capitalism in order to save it finally lost him to me.

    • Dave_A

      By stabilizing the banks before Obama actually got in and consolidated power, we were likely saved from nationalization or far worse regulation than the (Admittedly abominable) Dodd Frank bill…

      And this was done, oddly enough, without ‘destroying’ anything, and by an eventually self-financing mechanisim (purchasing non-voting/non-controlling stock)….

      Could it have been abused? Probably… Was it? No….

      It was also the most free-market solution available that didn’t end in a deflationary spiral.

      • checkmate2012

        I hated TARP but agree that it was the lesser of two evils: prop the banks or watch our entire system fall. We will never know if they didn’t do it…

        Stimulus on the other hand was agregious. Back door favoritism and crony pay offs. Subordianting bondholders in GM, illegal,

        A purist attitude doesn’t always solve the problems of the world.

      • http://impudent.edublogs.org/ kyle8

        but probably larger than it needed to be. Second Tarp, and all the subsequent bailouts, not so much. But I grant you, that didn’t happen under Bush.

        • wintermute

          that you say

          “I am one of those conservatives who is willing to vote for Romney but not spend/work for the Romney campaign at least for now”

          but that

          “I am advocating for Bush to campaign”

          Hey Mr. President, come work to get this guy elected. I won’t, but you should!

          lol persuasive argument there

        • Dave_A

          Which kept reporting Federal Reserve lending activity as if it were taxpayer bailouts, when it was really the Fed risking it’s own independent funding (the Fed doesn’t have access to taxpayer money)…

          This lead to claims of ‘secret bailout’ every time the Fed let a bank borrow some money…

          • aesthete

            Talking about the Fed as if it is simply one of many private institutions operating in the free market is simply not honest. The Fed is insured and has an explicit charter from Congress; a charter without which they wouldn’t have been able to engage in the actions which they undertook. Some of those loans were in fact secured with taxpayer funds, and all were secured utilizing the Fed’s favored position.

            A bailout? No, but no less of a taxpayer interest than the loans made by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (also semi-private institutions operated through Congressional charter).

          • Dave_A

            by either using it’s own on-hand reserves, or simply creating the money…

            There is no mechanisim for the FED to make taxpayer-backed loans.

            Yes, they have a charter from Congress – and yes it makes them what they are – but nowhere in the Federal Reserve Act does the FED have the power to spend or access government money.

            The only way the FED impacts the federal budget, is that if they turn a profit, that profit must be forfeit to Congress…

  • aesthete

    Maybe we can get Carter to cut some campaign ads for Romney while we’re at it — you know, that way we can round out the list of Presidential liabilities that Romney will have to account for on the campaign trail in exchange for…?