| Elder Bush Calls Reagan Supporters "Blockheads" |
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| by Tom McGregor | Sun, Nov 1, 2009, 10:35 AM |
 While former President George H.W. Bush served as vice president of the United States of America, he had a habit of ridiculing his boss, President Ronald Reagan, behind his back, by telling cruel jokes about him and his supporters to other world leaders.
Former Soviet Union Premiere Mikahail Gorbachev told the editors at the Nation Magazine that Mr. Bush personally informed him that he held a rather low opinion of the die hard supporters of Mr. Reagan, even though these same supporters had helped him to become the vice president and they later got him elected as president. Mr. Gorbachev recalled one incident in 1987 when the then-vice president accompanied him to the airport after his first visit to the U.S. The Nation reports that Mr. Gorbachev quotes Mr. Bush as saying that, "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." When Mr. Bush was president, he appointed Dick Cheney to serve as secretary of defense. His son, George W. Bush, selected Cheney to be his vice president. Mr. Cheney will formally announce on Nov. 17 his endorsement Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R.-Tx.) as she campaigns for the Republican nomination on the race for governor of Texas. To read the entire article from the Nation Magazine, link here: To read about Cheney endorsing Hutchison from the Fort worth Star-Telegram, link here: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it 
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written by M. E. Confundo , November 01, 2009 What does some point of disagreement between two former presidents have to do with an endorsement by Mr. Cheney ? Where is the connection ?? Am I missing something ???
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written by Peggy Venable , November 02, 2009 I served proudly in the Reagan Administration and also served as White House Liaison for the Dept of Interior under Bush. If these comments are accurate, I am ashamed that I ever served under Bush One. - Peggy Venable
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written by master of the obvious , November 02, 2009 So Bush the older gives an honest opinion of Ronnie Ray-gun and now what? Throw him out of the party too? Can't wait until it is just Rush and and the Rogue.
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written by Carlos Zaldivar , November 02, 2009 Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but not while hurting others. In general this is not a good policy, but specially when hurting those you worked for and helped you get promoted in government. This is sad news!..
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written by manny s , November 02, 2009 All the blockheads and dummies - now they're called teabaggers
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written by John Weekley , November 03, 2009 Having known and worked with President Bush '41 since he first ran for the U.S. Senate in 1963-64, I would be shocked if he made these remarks. These are words and sentiments I never ever heard him express about anyone, and the kind of guttural terms he wouldn't characteristically use, and certainly not to describe any American to a high Soviet official. Bush was our first Envoy to China, was Director of the CIA, was UN Ambassador, was Chairman of the Republican Party, and was comfortable with heads of state from around the world. He would never compromise his own dignity, and that of America, by mis-characterizing supporters in his own party in a way that could become a headline in Pravda, or a footnote in a history book. I believe "The Nation" magazine got this one very wrong.
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written by John Weekley , November 03, 2009 In the interest of accuracy, there was an "element" that voted Republican that I would call "free valences" that mixed with some of the more conservative Republicans who believed Bush was a Communist sympathizer, if not a Communist, because of some of his international affiliations, membership in Skull and Bones, and who were suspicious of his father, former Senator Prescott Bush. Some of these folks belonged to the John Birch Society which eternally plagued Bush and even published elaborate tracts about his Trilateral Commission membership. (Dick Cheney, by the way, is also a member of the Trilateral Commission.) SOME of these people were quite vociferous about their dislike of, and suspicions about, Bush and the entire Northeastern Republican establishment. I think a fair characterization of some of the more radical or obsessed people in this element would have been "fringe" groups. However, there was a much larger area of the Republican Party that was merely politically "very conservative" that included the Draft Goldwater people, early supporters of Ronald Reagan, and not a few who were ardent anti-communists in varying degrees. Bush had a real distaste for the tract producers, many (not all) of whom could be pretty nasty and even unhinge at times. I never heard him say anything disparaging about these people, but many Republicans - including conservatives - thought them in need of professional help and beyond strange. In defense of all of those who feared our government would be taken over by Communists and infiltrated by One World Government agents, they have only to look at today's White House to be vindicated for their fears, despite the fact that they often selected the wrong targets (like Bush) on whom to vent their concerns. In 1980, when Ronald Reagan selected George Bush to be his VP, many of these more reactionary folks simply grew silent, and some even accepted Bush, although quite slowly. History will say what it likes about The Reagan Revolution. But, it will also mark the genius of Ronald Reagan to unify the GOP and the country as never before. Write comment
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