Republican Presidents are obligated to nominate conservative judges, and stump for Republican senatorial and gubernatorial candidates. Although you have to weigh the individual merits of each prospective candidate for any position, his party affiliation still should be your main criteria, because no matter how good you think the guy might be, he's still gonna have to pay his debts once he gets into office. The Republicans are indebted to all the wrong constituencies. Do you want to bring back the era of small government, states rights Repubs? Vote Democrat. Watch how fast the Repubs stop pandering to the lowest common denominator as soon as it stops winning them elections. Your man Shrub was making a lot of noise about bipartisanship and appointing a democrat to the cabinet and whatnot when he was running for election, and then immediately veered hard to the right once he was in office. Why? He had to pay his debts to the people who got him in office.
I liked Reagan until Iran-Contra, imho that was REAL treason against this nation. It was also pretty well established after he left office that his campaign team was in contact with the Iranian hostage takers and they made a deal to release them only after Reagan was inaugurated. If true, this is just too evil to tolerate.
Bush Sr. seemed like a pretty good man and I have nothing but love for Clinton for the most part. Shrub, I just hate him. He's awful. The worst President in my lifetime for all the reasons I stated above. Goddam I can't believe we gave the Presidency to a born-again Christian in the 21st century. It's like we're going backwards. He probably thinks war in the Middle East is going to bring about the Rapture.
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