Thread: Bush is A Liberal. Bush If A Leftie. T or F?

I just say it claimed by FFA that Bush is a liberal leftie.

I find that statement so absurd I really have no idea how to even respond. I'm speechless.

What about you. Do you agree that Bush is a liberal or a leftie?

He seems like a Rightie to me...perhaps not a true Conservative, but a Radical Right-Winger nonetheless.

FFA just doesn't want to be associated too closely with Bush, so he tries to distance Bush from himself by calling him a Liberal.

He's a socially conservative, economically moderate, politically liberal abomination. But, I'm socially liberal, economically and politically conservative, so I'm totally biased.

I don't think he is either, should have been 3 choices
liberal
conservative
incompetant

I'm with Prag

Originally Posted by Pragmatist

I don't think he is either, should have been 3 choices
liberal
conservative
incompetant

The poll was not so much a "what is he?" as it was judging the factuality of the claim that he is a liberal or leftie as asserted.

He may not be a conservative. But, he sure as shit isn't a liberal or leftie. IMO, that statement is just absurd beyond belief.

Originally Posted by Distressed American

The poll was not so much a "what is he?" as it was judging the factuality of the claim that he is a liberal or leftie as asserted.

He may not be a conservative. But, he sure as shit isn't a liberal or leftie. IMO, that statement is just absurd beyond belief.

You have to take in each area of government though: political, economic, and social. He's bought and paid for by the Conservative Christians, so he's socially conservative, but he's built more government than anyone could have ever predicted.

Originally Posted by Distressed American

The poll was not so much a "what is he?" as it was judging the factuality of the claim that he is a liberal or leftie as asserted.

He may not be a conservative. But, he sure as shit isn't a liberal or leftie. IMO, that statement is just absurd beyond belief.

Agreed. Liberals are not against embryonic stem cell research, against a womans right to choose and for big business. Those 3 are enough to take him out of the liberal category.

Originally Posted by Burning Giraffe

You have to take in each area of government though: political, economic, and social. He's bought and paid for by the Conservative Christians, so he's socially conservative, but he's built more government than anyone could have ever predicted.

Personally, I think his main interest has nothing to do with anything but making himself and his cronies more powerful through any means necessesary.

Or course, that is "politician" rather than either of the polar opposites we are discussing.

Still say the claim that he is a liberal or leftie is absurd. What government he has grown he has done to give himself and corporate interests more power and money. Dept of Homeland Security is about more power for him through more beaurocratic control of "national security". Prescription drug bill was about making drug companies more money. Both sound pretty conservative to me.

Bush is a NeoCon. They're like Pro religion, pro democracy liberals. So he's marginally liberal, resembling the older Democratic breed.