Posted by
KsReaganite on Thursday, January 06, 2011 7:43:37 PM
After reading the recent political memoir of former President George W. Bush, I am even more convinced that before too many years are out, even liberal Democrats will be missing him (just like what happened with their one time bete noir Richard M. Nixon). Our immediate past president was no saint-personally or politically-but few impartial observers will deny that he is a gentleman with decency and compassion. What is more, as is increasingly obvious with the populist tinge becoming more colorful in the GOP, the former president led in a manner that had some semblance of thought and balance. Pundits often got too distracted by his Texasesque personal to realize that this is a man who, like his father and grandfather, is cognizant of the world and of America's stewardship of certain universal values.
Men like him are becoming rarer and rarer in politics at large; and frighteningly so in his own party where angry populism is fast replacing thoughtful conservatism.