Bush was a Progressive Republican. He spent through the roof. He was for amnesty. He signed the so called "campaign finance Reform" bill. He kept none of his conservative promises except the tax cuts for everyone.
Those are facts.
However, if you are going to pretend Bush lied based merely on accusations, then yes I am going to defend him. I defend anyone who is accused based on nothing. Heck, I defend people who are accused based on a hell of alot of information every day.
There is no emnity between the Former President and I. Heck, Id defend you if you were falsely accused. I've defended Obama on the rare occasions he's needed it.
You're inability to separate politics from facts is blinding you to what's in front of you.
His first impulse after 9/11 was to sign off on the creation of the Department of Fatherland Security, TSA and USAPATRIOT Act = Big gubmint lib.
Proactive interventionist foreign wars = Big gubmint lib (See: Wilson, FDR, Truman and LBJ).
NCLB = Big gubmint lib.
Medicare D = Big gubmint lib.
Failure to veto a single bloated spending bill in his first six years = Big gubmint lib.
Looks like all the Fabian socialist progressive wackaloons have been distracted by that (R) by his name, rather than looking his actions and comparing them with their political heroes of the 20th century.