came in obviously george h.w. bush was famously said i think your supply side economics are voodoo economics and alienated the whole reagan team. it was a political retort at the time. as you recall he was not president reagan s first choice at vice president. then nominee republican nominee reagan was looking back to gerald ford. it was only that yeah, he is a moderate and will help with the idea that reagan is portrayed in the media as radically right to bring george bush on. it proved effective political strategy because bush won handily in 80 and overwhelmingly in 84 versus mondale. i think they were very different people at that point. one is the g.e. spokesman, the actor, larger than life. if he walked into the studio now we would be like there he is. when george h.w. bush walks in the room it is more like there is my pal, a very smart policy
think it was a rebuke of the current president? it was obvious that it was. i think that, you know, obviously, his political legacy is a complicated one. he was part, i would argue, of the republican party that made donald trump inevitable at some point, or someone like donald trump inevitable. he could have beaten michael dukakis without lee atwater, without willie horton. he didn t have to run against the 1964 civil rights act, but he did. he said the only smart thing a republican has said about economics in the last 40 years. he said it was voodoo economics. and then when he took the job with ronald reagan, had he to reverse himself on that. he had to reverse himself on abortion which was handing a lot of the party or his part of the party essentially the cristian right. yeah. and the one thing he did that was courageous, which was raise
is a complicated one. he was part, i would argue, of the republican party that made donald trump inevitable at some point, or someone like donald trump inevitable. he could have beaten michael dukakis without lee atwater, without willie horton. he didn t have to run against the 1964 civil rights act, but he did. he said the only smart thing a republican has said about economics in the last 40 years. he said it was voodoo economics. and then when he took the job with ronald reagan, had he to reverse himself on that. he had to reverse himself on abortion which was handing a lot of the party or his part of the party essentially the cristian right. yeah. and the one thing he did that was courageous, which was raise taxes, looked bad on him because he had felt obligated to butch
the worst thing he would say to his kids, for example, was i m disappointed in you. he didn t engage in name calling and the things that are so common today, and i think it is because he was a gentleman. the worst thing i heard him say about somebody else was he was not a gentleman. although once he was out of office, he criticized donald trump he called him an iron and he called donald trump a blow hard. and wrote him a note. jamie just said this. i did it. i did it. i think it is important to remember that the 11th commandment thinks it is a compliment anyway. the 11th commandment doesn t mean or didn t mean for george bush that you couldn t criticize another s policies. policy is fine. we should not forget the single best critique of ronald reagan s economic policies, the notion it was voodoo economics comes from george bush. it tells us something that as soon as he got the nomination of
today, what they have in common. the reagan and bush republicans, the mccain republicans, some were a little more conservative, they had different views, but they all respected the country, respected the institutions, tried to live up to what they thought was a pretty impressive history, pretty impressive future for this country. that is i believe a contrast with the donald trump s republican party. ellenor? i look at it as a by gone politics. as we remember george h.w. bush, we shouldn t forget that he changed his positions on some core issues. he once called supply side economics voodoo economics, and as chuck just pointed out in his show on the abortion issue, he did a 180 degree turn on that. and i think he regarded that as accommodations that he needed to make if he was going to join with president reagan. the fact that george h.w. bush entered that white house, along with jim baker, who was his