NICE TO HEAR A TRUE CONSERVATIVE CRITICIZING THE CURRENT GOP

 

Bruce Bartlett

 

This long-time conservative thinks the current Republican Party is “rather stupid”.

It becomes interesting when one reads about those past conservatives, some very high up in past Republican administrations, when they finally get sick of all the BS and the lies coming from today's conservatives.   Then upon hearing all the right-wing talking-heads on Fox News, they finally have to just throw in the towel.

Now, there’s one of these individuals that was a serious advisor to both President Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.  He hasn’t become a dyed-in-the-wool liberal, but he has pretty much given up on the current version of the Republican party.  That man is Bruce Bartlett.  Today, he is an American historian whose area of expertise is supply-side economics. He once served as a domestic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan and as a Treasury official to George H. W. Bush.

At the recent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), potential Republican candidates were invoking President Ronald Reagan whenever the opportunity arose. However, in an interview on MSNBC, Bruce Bartlett, was asked “How would Reagan have been treated at today’s CPAC?”

Bartlett’s response: "I think he probably would be booed out of the crowd." Bartlett added, "If only because he gave amnesty to illegal aliens back in 1986. Nativists like Representative Steve King routinely denounce Reagan for that. They would have denounced him for raising taxes eleven times. They would have denounced him for raising the debt limit. They would have denounced him for running budget deficits. They would have denounced him for supporting labor unions. ... And we are not even getting into all the liberal things that he did as governor such as signing the most liberal abortion law in the United States. I think this guy definitely would not be a favorite of this crowd."

When asked, “Is it that conservatives and CPAC attendees just do not know their history?”

Bartlett said, "Well, I guess they have completely forgotten about George W. Bush whom they defended to the heavens when he was in office." Bartlett added, "But yes, they are really rather stupid and not very well read. To them Reagan is a distant figure in history."

Bartlett is actually a lifelong conservative who now thinks the GOP panders to fools, whom he calls “wankers”.

Bartlett is also a popular Twitter participant.  Here are some of his recent Tweets:

“The continued intransigence in the House is palpable. When Republicans overtly start criticizing their mouthpieces, then something is wrong in the party hierarchy.”

“James Inhofe may be a buffoon and a crackpot on climate change.”

“In Texas, lynchings never really ended; the state simply took over the job.”

“Wankers bankrupting their states with tax cuts. It's partly intentional to give excuse to slash spending for the poor.”

“Why is Fox not embarrassed by Bill O'Reilly's lies? Because it's an entertainment channel, not a news channel, of course.”

The following were some responses to this last Tweet:

1.     “That's said a lot. But to the Fox audience it is news and information & shapes their views and positions. Then they interact.”

2.     “It's actually a propaganda channel more than an entertainment channel. It has a political agenda.”

3.     “That's not really a surprise to anyone.”

It’s too bad that there aren’t more high-level individuals that also see what’s become of the GOP.  But between Fox, Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, as long as these perpetual liars and bigots continue to have their listener’s ears, we won’t be seeing many more Bruce Bartlett’s.

Copyright G.Ater  2015