Bush is the gold standard in conservative governance.
That is a very good point. All the rethugs on here want Mittens to do exactly what Bush did. With even more disasterous consequences.
But the rethugs won't stand up and say that they think Bush was a great President. Why I wonder. Especially given that they want Mittens to do the same bankrupting activities Bush did, they just want them on steriods.
Weird. Rethugs, you need to embrace Bush. He was your hero. He is Mittens fine example of how to ruin an economy.
You rethugs need to be proud of the disaster you brought us.
Okay, got to do the equal time thing here.
No, I don't hink Bush was a great president, nor was he the awful president a lot on the left make him out to be.
Lots of bad stuff happened on his watch, and most of it was outside his control. He certainly couldn't control the weather (Katrina) or that we had ignored the peril of Jihadism for a decade before he came to office. (PUt out an arrest warrent, Janet, that'll do it.)
The biggest problem was that we had a largely deregulated banking and housing industry that was running wild, but again, it was running wild before he got there. Glass-Steagle was repealled under Clinton, and that's when the price of housing started going out of control.
Now, all that said, yeah, he could have been a better manager.
I'd frankly rather have Bush than Obama, but I'd rather have Obama than Romney.
Bush for all his flaws, had some humanity to him.
The thing is, Romney says that he'd make a great president because when he ran Bain Capital, he made money. Yup, when he had control of events, with on one to oppose him, he could make money, no problem.
No president has ever had control of events or lacked someone opposing him.
And this is why Romney never, ever talks about his time as Governor of Massachusetts, which is far more relevent than anything he did at Bain. Because it was kind of a disaster, and they ran him out after one term.