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Will Republicans Support Yet Another Bush for President?

Stuart95 Wrote: Dec 04, 2012 7:25 PM

You couldn't be afraid to vote for Romney if you had any understanding of what BO was up to. If you didn't vote against BO this election, then you're probably a lost cause. One of Romney's problems is that he, like the Bushes, McCain, Dole, and the Republican Party, has no fire-in-the-belly principles. That's why no one, including Romney himself, actually knows what he would do had he been elected. Next time, I want Ron Paul's ideas and Marco Rubio's zeal.

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Will Republicans Support Yet Another Bush for President?

In January 2008, at a John McCain rally in Columbia, S.C., I asked a number of local politicos to look back to the brutal 2000 Republican primary in their state, the one between McCain and George W. Bush. They had all supported Bush back then, and I asked whether, given the inconclusive wars, runaway federal spending and economic catastrophe of the next eight years, they felt they made the right choice.

The answer was yes. They explained that they had strongly supported Ronald Reagan, and then they supported George H.W. Bush because they had supported Reagan, and then supported George...

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