re: #266 goddamnedfrank

That would have destroyed him all the same, by worsening his already bad economy. What he should have done is simply not made the promise, painting oneself into a corner is always a bad strategy.

Once you’re there, you’re there. But to some degree, it really is useless to wargame ‘what-ifs’ of either President Bush being outright combative in matters of domestic policy. That just is not the sort of man either the father or the son is or wants to be. Bush the Younger was willing to take a harder line, but even then he was never nasty about it.

So a scenario where George the Elder flung compromise aside and took an aggressive stance was never in the cards. He just is not that kind of man,