Whoa!!! Joe Scar off on a rant: "Repuke Convention should have put G. W. Bush on stage

[Surya Gayatri]

and embraced him!" Vomit inducing tirade!

[rfranklin]

1. Talk about a death wish!

Atleast ti would be a rare moment of honesty.

[Surya Gayatri]

2. I would've paid to see that act of mass political suicide!

[peace13]

20. +100

I can just see the entire convention center looking under their seats for weapons of mass destruction! Why oh why were we denied that scene!

[still_one]

34. actually it would have been consistent with their position of keeping troops in Iraq and Afghanistan

plus raising the notch on Iran

[Proud Public Servant]

3. He's absolutely right

Of course, I say that as a Democrat...

[barnabas63]

24. +1 nt

[TroglodyteScholar]

4. I know plenty of Republicans...

...and I can't find a single one who is proud of Bush's presidency. They all see him for what he is now that the damage is done.

Joe is delusional.

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Besides being a dogmatic bully...

[RKP5637]

28. That is so true! And, such a pugnacious looking/acting individual IMO. n/t

[brewens]

30. I've had a few FB friends post/like pro Bush stuff. One that has said a few times that history will

tell how Shrubs presidency is seen. I'd say that can only get worse.

In all fairness, I'd say it would have been tough for whoever was elected in 2004 to have prevented the economic collapse. Even if they realized what was coming, fixing it would have been a problem. How could you have explained the danger without spooking everyone and ending up being blamed for causing it? How do you gently shrink a bubble? Even if Bush realized what was happening, he would have played it for everyone to suck as much wealth up as they could before it burst, so he deserves all the blame we can pile on.

[Surya Gayatri]

38. Except that Shrub's ruinous wars and tax cuts continued

and contributed indirectly to the crash.

[newspeak]

55. absolutely!!! his obscene tax cuts at a time of war-his fekking bogus war!!

also, during little boot's reign job creation went down and decent jobs also went bye bye. The ones who appear to have made it big time are the wealthy and global corporations. During little boot's nightmare, the disparity in this country between the rich and poor has increased to such an extent, I think it's worse than the 1920s.

yeah, I think they should have brought in the sociopath. Watching him would have reminded me of his little joke at our expense-how he hit the trifecta. How many times did he repeat that obscene statement publicly. Then there's the hilarious act of looking for those darn WMDs under a desk. Yeah, little boots, you're killing the american people with laughter or are you just killing them?

and, of course, I won't be forgetting the big pharma giveaway while screwing my elderly relatives. Every time they fall into that bogus donut hole and can't afford their medications, I think of you, georgie.

[Surya Gayatri]

60. +1000! Righteous rant!

[Arkansas Granny]

37. That's true. For all the complaints I hear about President Obama, I never hear anyone say,

"I wish Bush was still in office".

[Surya Gayatri]

39. Even his worst enemies never come up with that!

[HereSince1628]

5. Maybe the r's feel they can't get to Jeb until the nation forgets W.

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Good luck with that! The name of BUSH will live in infamy!

[HereSince1628]

8. raising the philosophical question: Can a sock-puppet live in infamy? n/t

[Surya Gayatri]

10. LOL! Yeah, if its name is BUSH!!

[Frank Cannon]

64. Jeb Bush will have to change his name to Fred Kowalski...

if he wants to have a prayer of even getting elected dog catcher in 2016.

[Frank Cannon]

65. If Dubya had shown up at the RNC...

I have no doubt that four huge guys in black T-shirts would have run up to him, Tazered him, and dragged his ass out as quickly as possible before the cameras could see him.

[Surya Gayatri]

66. Time for an identity make-over!

[winstars]

9. Off. His. Rocker. Yeah, bring back Shrub, thats the ticket!!! n/t

[Surya Gayatri]

11. I wish the Rmoney campaign would hire Joe Scar

to be their N°1 strategist between now and Nov.!

Get those campaign ads up with Shrub heartily endorsing Mitt--saturate the airwaves!

That's the ticket--victory assured!

[davidpdx]

12. We have Bill Clinton

They have two Bushes and they are both dicks. I never get tired of saying that.

[Surya Gayatri]

14. And now, they're trying to distort Big Dawg into some

kind of latter-day Repuke hero!

After what you tried to do to Clinton during his two terms, now he's your "bipartisan" savior?

Bite me, you dickwads!

[Cosmocat]

27. It's funny, isn't it

I remember the 90s vividly.

They hated Bill Clinton with EVERY fiber of their being, the same at BO.

People place too much on the race aspect.

They race bait for sure, but most of the republicans don't hate BO because he is black.

They hate him because he is a D.

If he were a R, like Pizza twit or the lunatic Allen West, they would LOVE him.

They hated Kennedy just the same, and like Kennedy, the farther you get away from him being in office, the more they don't mind him.

EVERY republican I knew in the 90s hated Clinton, today, 9 out of 10 say, "Clinton wasn't bad, I would take him ..."

Yeah, OK.

[Arkansas Granny]

40. And they hated Bill Clinton from the moment he took office.

A lot of it was because they fully expected to hold a Republican majority for a long time. That's when the trashing of Democrats in general, and liberals in particular, really picked up steam.

[Cosmocat]

58. The was a story I heard on Faux at the gym the week Bush II took office

I was at the gym (older people always want to watch Faux there) and Faux reported that the Bush admin had put out word that the white house had been "trashed" by the Clinton staff going out the door and they implied VERY strongly there was human feces on desks ... ect.

The people were all aghast around me ...

I said, "do you REALLY believe that?"

They kind of just looked and tried to square it with common sense.

Yeah, the clinton people trashed the white house and left crape on the desks, they just gobbled it up ...

[Surya Gayatri]

42. The level of hate was stratospheric--I live in Europe and the

loathing was palpable even from over here!

[Ganja Ninja]

13. Yeah that's what they needed.

A big dose of the decider waving and giggling from the stage. He should have been the guy asking "Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?" All across America thousands of gunshots would have rung out as the TV audience shoot out their TV's in unison.

[Surya Gayatri]

15. +1,000 ! LOL!

[Javaman]

16. george w. moron* the human torpedo.

that would have completely sunk the convention. eastwood did a fine job toward that end.

but yes, I agree, putting george w. moron* on stage would have been the very best thing for the Dems.

[ananda]

17. Instead of Clint Eastwood?

LOL

[Surya Gayatri]

21. Why not both? Add insult to injury!

[Arkansas Granny]

41. Think about it. If Bush had been sitting in Clint's chair, it still would have been empty.

[Surya Gayatri]

43. +1,000! Indeed!

[Bluenorthwest]

45. No, instead of the empty chair.

Type casting.

[agentS]

18. So he's lost his damn mind now?

[Surya Gayatri]

23. Well, he seemed "on the edge of the cliff" this morning! LOL!

(To borrow a turn of phrase from the "chicken little" fiscal brigade...)

[Renew Deal]

19. I agree.

He should have been up there.

[Surya Gayatri]

22. Well, his specter was there, and that's almost as good!

[hifiguy]

25. Brilliant idea!

Remind everyone who cut the worst elevator fart in US history, one so bad that the elevator is still declared off-limits to anyone not in a hazmat suit.

[Surya Gayatri]

33. Bwaahaaaaa! Love the graphic!

[BeyondGeography]

26. This is going to piss off Dubya

[Surya Gayatri]

46. Good one! With Laura as his keeper/babysitter...

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[Cosmocat]

29. Scarborough is right

in the up is down/down is up world that is the republican party, they absolutely should have had Bush there.

One of their prime directives is to emphasize their negatives as a strength, so why not trot Bush and develop a list of talking points about how great he was and how BO screwed it all up.

[RKP5637]

32. Republicans are akin to primitive robots, all one has to do is feed them the right

commands and they will react in a predictable manner.

[Surya Gayatri]

35. Just to accelerate their trajectory into oblivion!

[Cosmocat]

56. guns blazing ...

lol ...

[RKP5637]

31. I enjoyed Imus far better than Joe Scar. n/t

[Surya Gayatri]

36. Too much of a Libertarian cowboy for me, but I sometimes watch "Current TV" with Bill Press.

[LynneSin]

44. Honestly, it couldn't have hurt that crapfest of a convention

It already sucked massively. Bringing Shrug out couldn't have made it any worse

[Surya Gayatri]

49. 50 Shades of Bad...LOL! Shrub being there would've

added just that little degree of "worse".

[TlalocW]

47. They couldn't have sobered him up in time

TlalocW

[Surya Gayatri]

50. Why bother? Same stupidity, drunk or sober!

[CTyankee]

48. Scar is losing his mind. His rant today was just bizarre.

He cannot lose gracefully. Either he starts yelling and waving his arms or he goes into full delusional ranting like he did this morning.

Geez, it's 58 days till Election Day. At this rate, Scar will be a raving lunatic in a strait jacket by then...

[Surya Gayatri]

51. Even the round table toadies were rolling their eyes!

[Historic NY]

52. Democrats should have had an empty suit on the floor to talk to....

[atreides1]

53. Of course he feels this way!

Joe probably owes the Bush brothers a lot...especially regarding the whole dead intern thing! Remember, Jeb was governor of Florida when that young lady had her unfortunate "accident"!

No real proof, just a possible theory...

[millijac]

54. I seem to recall that he endorsed John Kerry....

and was all over George Bush in 2004.

[newspeak]

57. repugs are hoping that they can do for little boots what they did for reagan

all this reagan worship didn't happen until after he left office. his back and forth tax cuts (at least he had brains enough to know it wasn't working), his union busting, his iran-contra fiasco, and amnesty international had named reagan one of the bloodiest presidents, especially supporting the death squads in central america. after his presidency, some RW authors published books about reagan's so called legacy. yeah, what a great president he was, and with the help of the media it struck. because some citizens have very, very short term memories.

[LiberalAndProud]

59. If Romney would be honest, Bush would have been there.

Of course, I believe that Romney is allergic being honest.

[polly7]

61. Are there still many GW supporters who think he really did do great things?

I can't imagine they could ignore all the waste in terms of human lives, money, jobs .... they'd have to be completely blind, deaf or just stupid to still embrace him.

[Bolo Boffin]

62. They had pere and fil in a fivish-minute video, along with the spouses

I remember seeing that.

Did Romney specifically ask for nothing more? Would Dubya even have come? Joe seems to think it was an insult, so maybe so.

[quaker bill]

63. In a curious way, it makes sense.

They are running on doing more Bush* policy on the theory that it did not work because it was not done hard enough. Since they are running on his "ideas", perhaps they should have embraced him as the "intellectual" father of their proposals. There is an argument for it. It certainly is unseemly to hide from public view the last guy who did all the things you are proposing to do...

I get why they kept him hidden. However, a better choice would have been to admit the failure of those ideas and offer something different, rather than simply hiding the guy.