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George H.W. Bush—an equal parts obscure and hated American president whose only historical significance is being half responsible for George W. Bush—didn’t care for Ronald Reagan! Mikhail Gorbachev told the Nation in a recent interview: “In 1987, after my first visit to the United States, Vice President Bush accompanied me to the airport, and told me: ‘Reagan is a conservative. An extreme conservative. All the blockheads and dummies are for him, and when he says that something is necessary, they trust him. But if some Democrat had proposed what Reagan did, with you, they might not have trusted him.” Is it too late to give George H.W. Bush’s stupid one term to Reagan, where it belongs? [Raw Story]
Bush and Reagan- who cares? Let’s have a Sanford or Ensign story, please. Or any other stupid current GOPer.
Somebody warn Reagan that posing that way is likely to get himself shot by Sarah Palin.
I care, Happy. I care.
George W. Bush learned this lesson well. The New England private school and Harvard and Yale educated brahmin turned himself into a simple good old boy to appeal to the mouth breathers. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Palin is a secret genius.
Now if only he’d shared this revelation with his eldest son…
For me, that makes HW slightly less vile.
It gets annoying when the salt of the earf (sic) types (you know, morons) recite Raygun’s name like it was Randolph Scott’s a la Blazing Saddles.
Canmon (the Inadequate): “I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that Palin is a secret genius.”
I would be very surprised.
Texan Bulldoggette: I’d be more surprised to find out that Palin is a secret genius than I would be to find out she’s a secret man.
Didn’t George Bush just confirm in a speech this past weekend that the term “going rogue” is actually British slang for unprotected anal sex?
Good old George Good Cop Bush
So 41 thought “All the blockheads and dummies are for him…?” Judging by how often Sheer “Am I An Idiot?” InSannity raves about President Reagan, they still are.
At the risk of being serious on a Friday morning, both President George Bush and James Baker deserve tremendous credit for securing loose nuclear weapons in various parts of the former Soviet Union. They did more for world peace by that decisive diplomatic stroke than Mr. Bush’s son ever managed.
It is fascinating that those same worshipers of President Reagan mock President Obama’s effort to remove nuclear weapons from earth.
Finally - others have asked Mr. Gorbachev about the nutty theory that President Reagan ended the Cold War by forcing the Soviet Union to spend itself to death. He thinks that idea is, well, nuts.
ManchuCandidate: Despite him being an oil baron, CIA boss, and husband to Barbara Bush, I never disliked him all that much. More indifference than anything else.
How does one translate “blockhead” and “dummy” into Russian?
Guppy06:
I would give Bill O’Reilly a hand job if Sarah Palin would come out as being secretly a man or transgendered.
This is very important, because of a widely quoted statement by philosopher Carlos Santana: “Those who fail to learn the lessons of US history are bound to repeat the 11th grade.” Leave it to the Old Money-worshiping Bush the Elder to feel no gratitude towards the charming moron who elevated him. Bush’s many pretend compliments to Reagan, who contracted Alzheimer’s Disease in the early 1950’s, reveal his complete hypocrisy, which was the foundation of his success in Washington. A Yale education is a terrible thing to waste.
“All the blockheads and dummies” is my new favorite pet-name for Fox News [sic] viewers.
SEND PAPA BUSH ROCK SALT *dip*
Formerly Preferred: “Bush”; “Quayle”
поддельный И болван, тоже!
Guppy06: yes
тоже, xa xa xa
magic titty: Yeah, Poppy Bush was basically the least awful of the last four or five Republican Presidents.
Tundra Grifter: Saying that Star Wars and Raygun’s speech at the Berlin Wall destroyed the Soviet Union should be grounds for immediate revocation of one’s right to speak about, well, anything.
El Pinche: No, the appropriate bad-pun protest mailing would be hedge trimmers.
дурачки и болвани? Tоже.
That George H. W. Bush is one sick puppy.
Canmon (the Inadequate): She’s not a secret genius. I taught at the University of Idaho. Geniuses are very conspicuous on that campus, because beer cans are thrown at them. It’s an impossible closet. She’s a first-rate fucking idiot, what you see is what you get.
The only good thing Reagan did was (yes, hippies) deploying medium-range missiles to West Germany, which led directly to the treaty to get rid of U.S. AND Soviet medium-range missiles in Europe. Other than that, nothin’. The whole death of the Soviet Union thing was 80 percent Gorbachev (if unintentional) and 20 percent economic reality. Reagan was a spectator. Star Wars had some effect on the Soviets agreeing to limit ICBMs, but that had nothing to do with glasnost, perestroika, or any of the other actual causes of the USSR’s breakup. If anything, Star Wars worked AGAINST the Soviet collapse, because it led to treaties that saved the Soviets money.
GHWB sic’ed Cheney on his idiot son, which led to all the crap we’re now cleaning up, so fuck him, too.
germansteel: Goddammit, I was going to say that, lacking imagination & all. Not that you do, it probably just rolled off your fingers w/o you even noticing, whereas I had to get all steamy-brained & squeeze it out, like a rock-hard poop. Regardless, I must chastise you people for not hating this dickhead. He is eminently hate-able. He married a man, to start with. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, it’s just that he thought he married a woman. And a hateful man at that (Astrodome, poor people.) Plus he was obviously a raging hypocrite with regards to Raygun, not that this is any great surprise or makes him unusual in any way. Oh yeah, his dad was a Nazi-lover, too. Very hate-able, those Bushes.
Also, Raygun called his wife “mommy.” Which is just gross, weird & wrong, among other things.
Formerly Preferred: I believe you’re looking for terms much more akin to “bleyad” and “suki”, although “suki” can have positive connotations.
“Leave it to the Old Money-worshiping Bush the Elder to feel no gratitude towards the charming moron who elevated him. ”
Reagan didn’t so much elevate Bush as sideline him. Bush was on track for the 1980 Presidential nomination when Reagan got the religious wing of the party behind him and took the convention. Bush is responsible for the term Voodoo Economics, which is what he derisively called Reaganomics while running for the nomination. Reagan delayed Bush occupying the White House by 8 years, and only half-heartedly endorsed him in 1988. There was no love lost between the two.
Lazy Media: Hey, don’t sell Raygun short. He accomplished a lot, like selling arms to terrorists!
That’s not a nice way to talk about your former boss who also happened to be America’s boss.
hobospacejunkie:
While Bush senior is a little smarter than George W., he is just as vicious, arrogant, self-possessed, and entitled - at least in his own mind. His Ivy League pretentiousness and perceived superiority lies at the bottom of his proclivity to brand any and all opponents as “liars.” He started all the low brow campaigning that Republicans have turned into an art from. I hate him, and his hag wife.
We are all sick puppies, now.
Maybe Bush was playing a role, saying Reagan had the dummies in his corner in order to scare Gorby into a treaty. Kinda like Nixon and Kissinger’s “Mad Man” episode with the North Viets — Kissinger tells Le Duc Toe that Nixon is “crazy” and they’d better make a deal before the Mad Man nukes Hanoi. I guess they hoped the Soviets or Viets didn’t know about Good Cop/Bad Cop.
Survey:
Who masturbates more to a dead president? Conservatards or North Koreans?
hobospacejunkie: Not to mention his disregard for birth control which could have saved us from the worst president in history.
Unfortunately, Poppy Bush’s interpreter at the time had to be liquidated.
Zadig: I’m still going with Gerald Ford. Sure, pardoning Nixon was a lousy thing to do, but it got the vile bastard out of office pronto. Also, he didn’t serve a full term, so his ability to screw the country over was limited. Plus also he didn’t have any horrible, horrible children like Poppy had with Neil, Jeb, and W.
“An extreme conservative. All the blockheads and dummies are for him…”
So quaint! So delicious!
If he had so much derision for blockheads and dummies, then why in the hell did he pick Dan Quayle as his Vice-President? To ensure their vote?
Norbert: Ето курам на смех
Tho’ I was naif young lad back then, it was very clear to me that Reagan/Bush ‘80 was a classic case of “keep your enemies closer.”
So, big surprise.
magic titty: The fact that he also seemed to dislike his stupidest son sort of retroactively made me feel that he wasn’t the worst human being on the face of the planet.
You’d never see people openly writing in Cyrillic if a god-fearing, non-socialist patriot were president. Toжe.
Deacon Frank Orris: Sort of a toss-up between Bush and Ford for me, when I think about it. Bush was of course a completely terrible person in general, which counts against him, but pardoning Nixon, no matter how practical a decision it was, is pretty unforgivable for me. Maybe it got Watergate off the government’s plate faster, but it was a godawful precedent to set.
Not that Dubya has to worry, but do you think he might have been a little more circumspect about all the torture and domestic spying and the other illegalities, if we had a precedent of throwing Presidents who did that in fucking jail? Maybe not, but it’s possible.
J. Robert Oppenheiner: I knew that…
Honestly, the most interesting thing about this story is that George H.W. Bush apparently had to drive visiting heads of state to the airport as parts of his VP duties.
thefrontpage: No, that’s “going Rove”
ManchuCandidate: I ended up feeling a lot less hateful to HW when he publicly resigned his membership to the National Rifle Association, because he didn’t like all of their political activities, and generally thought they were nuts (something like that) - I think it happened sometime in the late 1990s.
Ah, George the First was a vastly better President than his son, but still no William Henry Harrison.
Formerly Preferred: That would be: blockhead = болван; тупица and dummy = долбоёб. Hope that helps.
Ronald Wilson Reagan? Isn’t he part of The New GOP?
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