Red Dawn
Senior Member
pres bush may not have been considered anything but a neoconservative and republican by his supporters....
so yeah, maybe he wasn't considered a ''conservative'' but he was considered a neoconservative by many and a social conservative by many and a Republican BY ALL.
The only group in america that still thought bush was doing a good job when he left office, were conservative republicans
Conservative Republicans Still Widely Support Bush
Two time bush voters can pretend bush wasn't a conservative. Obviously, for political reasons, they don't want to be associated with him publically. But cons are the one group, overall, that thought he was doing a good job, at the end of his failed presidency.
So Cons own Bush.
Frankly, there's hardly any difference, policy wise, between bush and Reagan. Both cut taxes for corporations and the rich, both increased spending on military and core entitlement programs - reagan with social security, bush with medicare. Both believed in deregulation and leaving the markets "alone". both believed in some form of amnesty for illegal aliens, as payback to their business and corporate benefactors. And both believed in a belligerent, muscular foreign policy that saw the world in black and white, good an evil.
the fact that cons want to throw bush under the train, after voting for him twice, and supporting his nomination twice, is unfathomable. He wasn't substantively different than reagan. Except he was, perhaps, dumber and more incompetent.