re: #1 Charles Johnson

I didn’t write anything above because there are plenty of gushing obituaries already written. And to be honest, I had some serious problems with some of the things Bush did. He was reportedly a very decent man in person and that counts for something, but his blatantly racist Willie Horton ad during his campaign against Dukakis was one of the stepping stones that eventually led the GOP to its current totally debased state.

And I’ll leave it at that.

the republican party has always been an incestuous stew of john birch society members combined with national chamber of commerce new-money grifters. let’s just stop with the “republicans began their slide on such and such a day” meme. they’ve always been scumbags.