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Originally Posted by scout
Poor Bush, he set the conservative movement {a smaller more fiscally responsible government} back 20 years or more and no matter how much he spent and expanded existing government programs he couldn't buy the love of the liberals because of that giant (R). In the end everyone hated him but for different reasons, the conservatives for spending and expanding the government like there was no tomorrow and again the liberals because of that (R).
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Really? You really think that the only reason over half of the country dislikes Bush was because he was a republican? If you remember back to the early part of his first term, Bush was not especially disliked by the democrats, and he had virtually unprecedented support after 9/11. But he squandered whatever affection he had on unnecessary wars, torture, and countless scandals. If he had governed the way he claimed in the first campaign, as a compassionate conservative doing no nation building, he wouldn't have ended up nearly as unpopular as he did. (R) or no (R).
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"Die Deutschen meinen, daß die Kraft sich in Härte und Grausamkeit offenbaren müsse, sie unterwerfen sich dann gerne und mit Bewunderung:[...]. Daß es Kraft giebt in der Milde und Stille, das glauben sie nicht leicht."
"The Germans believe that power must reveal itself in hardness and cruelty and then submit themselves gladly and with admiration[...]. They do not believe readily that there is power in meekness and calm."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
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