The term compassionate conservative makes me puke. Just like that kinder gentler shit his pop would say. The Bushies turned hardline Goldwater / Reagan conservatives into the whimp bleep capitulating GOP(e) pukes that they are today.
Overall, he and his dad's tenure were a big NEGATIVE, not only for the country, but for the GOP. Hopefully we have seen the last of them on the national stage.
Yep. The day he said he was a "compassionate conservative" I knew I wasn't voting for any Bush ever again.
That was just double-speak for "flaming lib here, but can't say that" from the Bush gang.
2000 was a really pathetic year for presidential candidates.
The Rodents were running the usual slate of clowns today's Never Trumpers would eagerly support, and these were the people on the GOP side:
McStain (gag me with a radioactive test source)
Bush (fresh out of patriotism in that one)
Forbes (too delicate to push his way into the Establishment Mob. Lacked Trump's force of character that makes Trump so great)
Escape Hatch from Utah (he wanted to "counsel" a known rapist and perjurer rather than impeach him)
Gary Bauer (who I've forgotten all about)
Alan Keyes (who would have earned my vote...then he did a crash-and-burn whining about "racism" in the GOP. Out you go, pal, you're in the wrong place...)