George W. Bush, unlike his father, should have never came anywhere near the White House.
Had George Herbert Walker Bush ran on his real agenda--"Read My Lips, Taxes will go up!"-- he never would have been nominated by the Republican party, and, if they had, even tankboy could have beat him in the general. GHWB obtained the Presidency through fraud. To validate that act of fraud in any way is pathetic.
GHWB was an effective VP, and other than raising taxes he did not really make any mistakes as POTUS.
First of all, raising taxes wasn't just a "mistake," it was an attack on the democratic aspects of our constitutional republic. The Constitution enshires the principle that the American people are a sovereign, self-governing people. The people express their will at the ballot boxes by choosing the representatives that will vote according to their will. For our democratic constitutional republic to work, politicians have to honor their campaign promises. Doing a one-eighty on your central platform makes a mockery of the process. It reduces elections to a sham process voters choice to be lead by a person. [Bill Clinton fraudulently claiming he was a chastened, repentant philander when in fact he he was unreformed and unrepentant, reduced the process of choicing a leader to a process of chosing a name.]
If the electorate isn't given an accurate assessment of the character of the candidates, or, what they will really do when elected, elections are little more than picking a name. Minimizing what GHWB did is akin to claiming Jonathan Pollard only made one mistake in his life.
Second, forchristsake GHWB nominated David Souter to the Supreme Court. If you are going to shill for the reprehensible Mitt Romney wouldn't it behoove you to at least fake a sincere belief that Bush blew it by nominating Souter?
