2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI never thought I could hate someone worse than GWB
But I hate Romney worse.
LovePeacock
(225 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)but their fiscal policies would've been totally different. Before Reagan, Republicans were okay with taxing millionaires higher and not cutting working class services. Even Eisenhower had a 90% tax rate for top earners, which is much higher than the Clinton-era rate that today's Republicans whine about Obama proposing.
madaboutharry
(40,212 posts)are the neo-con foreign policy advisors that surround him, people itching for another misbegotten war.
LovePeacock
(225 posts)flowomo
(4,740 posts)but my anti-Bush feelings were stronger (at the time).
lilithsrevenge12
(136 posts)You didn't think anyone could make Palin look centered and intelligent.
LovePeacock
(225 posts)Rmoney is at least smart enough to know all political positions at one time, and is able to jump around from stance to stance.
Palin couldn't even name a goddamn newspaper that she read.
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)I always hated him even more than the shrub.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)But I hate Dick Cheney.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)I hate that.
Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)Bush was just stupid. Cheney is evil incarnate.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I do distrust him ... I do hate his policy positions; I do not hate the man.
LovePeacock
(225 posts)But good for you. You have a clearer head than I. Kudos.
TexasCPA
(527 posts)He tells obvious lies, but people still most believe him. How can this man get the support of 49% of the USA? Are people really that dumb?
LovePeacock
(225 posts)A majority of people are fucking stupid. It's no coincidence that some of the worst people are the ones that procreate the most.
MajPayne2
(202 posts)SubgeniusHasSlack
(276 posts)but rMoney is worse in every way.
think_critically
(118 posts)I'm sorry. People may not get it but I would vote for W. a thousand times over romney. W. was a moron. Romney
is a snake who is fundamentally dishonest and will be nothing but a corporate stooge.
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)One is hereditary, the other from brain damage. Both are upper class idiotic puppets, which is needed so they can be handled by the clever money guys, who stay hidden. They know what they can get Republicans to respond to ... clueless, self-centered, idiots.
treestar
(82,383 posts)four years of listening to him would be worse - at least Bush sounded folksy. I cannot stand R$s condescending, whiny type of talk.
maxsolomon
(33,345 posts)in an illegal war started by a Romney Administration, then I'll hate him more.
they're both narcissists, but only one is a war criminal.
mil_5529dem
(37 posts)Sadly, things will probably only get worse
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Bush may have had disdain for the 47% but, I doubt he would ever voice that, probably not even behind closed doors. Laura is probably the only person he would have said anything to. Bush wanted to think he was a good person. Romney doesn't even care enough to want to be a good person. Money is his god. He really would let senior citizens starve to balance the budget. Bombs are more important to him than food for the poor.
LovePeacock
(225 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)because he isn't stupid. He's a conniving low-life
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... Romney is at least twice as sleazy as the Shrubster was, only half as dumb, yet even more disconnected from the American People.
Bush looks like a straight-shooting statesman compared to the con man that is Romney.
Alekei_Firebird
(320 posts)Romney, on the other hand, is clearly intelligent but uses that ability solely for personal gain, even if it comes at the expense of others. That's why he's despicable.
LeftInTX
(25,364 posts)I don't know how he fits in here...
Cheney was pure evil - covertly and overtly.
Reagan and Romney seem similar to me.
Uncaring - callous - cold - personalities, but I wouldn't quite call them evil.
Bush: I can't read him. He was Cheney's puppet.
MFM008
(19,814 posts)Been trying to put words to my feelings on this and those are it!!
budkin
(6,703 posts)argiel1234
(390 posts)Romney, however is a lying, cold and calculating charlatan who will gladly do the 1%'s bidding
He's much more dangerous
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)since I don't know him personally, but I hate him as a politician. There have never been a set of facts that he wouldn't bend, nor people he wouldn't try to deceive, in order to gain an edge regarding his political aspirations. He and the rest of his party are aware that their fiscal and social policies are antithetical to the interests of most Americans, so they lie to get more votes. It leaves no room in this country for an honest debate on the issues.
IMTreble
(6 posts)I just saw a video clip of GWB and I gotta say no politician has ever made me more disgusted by just his face. That damn smirk he always wears just makes me wanna smack him!! I don't know why any business person would ever even do business with such a face! heheh