History

It is probably hard for me to say, because I have no children, or grandchildren; but you hear things, and maybe accurate history isn't being taught anywhere anymore.

Based upon my observations at the time, here's my rundown on American history since Bush's were in office.

As you recall, 911 was on Bush's watch. At the time, the Democrats were trying to say that he "let it happen". This isn't about whether or not that is true, it is simply reporting on what was said at the time.

The public rallied around Bush. His approval rating may have topped 90%, which is a pretty unheard of type number. Everyone was totally on board. But there were a few critics on the sidelines. They had to be quiet, but at first, they were not. I recall a certain amount of what appeared to me as being "satisfaction" at what the terrorists managed to do to us.

When I observed that, it was quickly and vehemently denied. You see, the left had the reputation of being less than 100% patriotic. This was a fact.

Anyway, Bush's adventures ended up with the US military sucked into a war in Iraq. Thanks to this, he let the Democrats off their leash. Bush's position was that there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. The Democrats said that they were tricked into believing it to be true, but it later turned out to be doubtful ( according to Bush's defenders).

Now get this: Bush's actions were also the GOP's actions. Republicans had to defend Bush now, even if it appeared that he could have been wrong. As the war dragged on, Bush's numbers began to fall steadily. By the time of the election of 2004, it was a crapshoot as to whether or not he would be re-elected.

A disclosure here repeated once again because I've said it before on this blog: I had reservations about going into Iraq. Not any reservations about Saddam being a bad guy, but reservations about the Democrat support. I grew up during the Vietnam Era. I KNEW how treacherous the left can be, and to take a risk in empowering them was one that should not have been taken.

So when the war began I had this uneasy feeling. Nevertheless, you cannot unscramble the egg. Bush was GOP and I supported the war. But I turned out to be correct about the Democrats, and by the time Bush left in 2008, he had thoroughly wrecked his own polls as well as the GOP's. In the end, he was just like his Dad. His Dad inherited a united Party, and a united country. The country had turned mostly conservative. By the time Bush left, all that was smashed to hell.

So we get Clinton in 92 and Obama in 2008. Same pattern, same results.

Then Trump runs in 2016. He wins, but there is a very loud, vocal minority within the party that doesn't support him. Among these are the ones who pushed so hard for intervention in Iraq. Trump said that he opposed Iraq, amongst other things that upset this noisy wing of the GOP.

There was a big stink about Russia. Even though the GOP controlled both houses of Congress, and the Presidency, it didn't seem to matter. They allowed the Democrats to push this "conspiracy theory" of Russian interference in the election.

The subsequent investigations didn't support the conspiracy theory, but that didn't unite the faction of the party that still opposed Trump.

Personally, I never gave any credence to this theory. Besides, all the rules were being broken during the "investigation", which evidence shows that those who pushed it knew there was no "there" there.

It looked like a politically motivated misuse of the government to suppress political opposition. The Never-Trump faction allowed this. But they grudgingly supported Trump like they were being force to against their will. I believe that to be true. They really didn't want to support Trump.

Anyway, to fast forward a bit, we had the election year last year, and Trump is no longer POTUS.

Now I want to go back over something I wrote early in this piece. In 1992, the GOP was still considered to be the party the people trusted with foreign policy. But note now that the Democrats are trying to seize that issue and make it theirs.

My point is this: How were they able to get into position to do this? It is because of the decisions that George W. Bush made as POTUS. Furthermore, it was because of the decisions that George HW Bush, Bush's father, made that allowed Clinton to take over the law and order issue. Prior to that, the GOP owned that issue too.

Therefore, the Bushes lost two issues to the Democrats. Another issue that the GOP had was that they were considered to be the more patriotic of the two major parties. Note that the faction that supported the Russian collusion thing allowed the Democrats to seize that issue as well. The GOP party is now smeared with disloyalty to the country even though the Democrats are trying to overthrow the entire culture.

Look where the GOP is now. It no longer has the law and order issue, even though the Democrats would do nothing about the riots last year. It no longer has the foreign policy issue, even though the Democrats have historically supported regimes that were unfriendly to this country. The GOP is now being called "Quislings" by figures such as Krugman of the New York Times. We are now what the public USED to think about the Democrats ---- even though the Democrats have not become super patriots and lovers of freedom like "Il Duce, the Sawdust Caesar" pretends to be.

How the hell did all this happen? It all has one constant. The faction of the GOP which does not support this country, but only pretends to. I would call them the Bush wing of the party, but it includes a lot more than that.

Meanwhile, the conservative wing of the party gets all the blame.

Why does the conservative wing of the party have anything to do with these people, who I have labelled as Quislings? Haven't the conservatives being stabbed in the back enough times to call it quits with these losers? They ARE losers. Look at what they have lost. They seem to do this on purpose.

The GOP cannot win anything worth winning with this faction within its ranks. Either they go, or we SHOULD. There is no common ground with them. They share more with the Democrats than with the vast majority of the party's grass roots. All they are good for is to destroy the very things that we care about.