George H. W. Bush: Passing Reaction Roundup

Here’s some news, tributes, roundups and reactions to President George H. W. Bush’s death:

  • Bush’s body to lie in state in the capitol rotunda. (Hat tip: Director Blue.)
  • The Other McCain:

    Former President George Herbert Walker Bush will be universally praised in the wake of his death because it is always the policy of liberals to celebrate the dead Republicans they formerly defamed, as a means to impugn the living Republicans they currently defame. Those of us old enough to remember how liberals hated Bush when he was president (and before that, as vice-president under Ronald Reagan) will not be deceived by their panegyrics to his “civility” and “bipartisanship.”

    Snip.

    Bush was one of the leaders of the GOP’s effort to break the Democrat stranglehold on the “Solid South.” He defeated the powerful Texas Democrat machine to win two terms in Congress, ran unsuccessfully for the Senate in 1970, and served as Ambassador to the United Nations (1971-73) and later as director of the CIA. In the interval, Bush was chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1973-74 when it fell his duty to inform President Nixon that he would have to resign, as the Watergate revelations had destroyed his support within the GOP. In all of these roles, Bush was a man of honor who did what duty required, as a patriotic servant of his country.

  • Scott Johnson at Powerline: “He led an almost impossibly full life, capped by his election to the presidency as Ronald Reagan’s successor in 1988. A good man and a good president, he was perhaps more than anything else a great American of the old-fashioned variety that is passing from the scene.” Plus a reminder of how the New York Times fabricated stories about him.
  • Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, hails Bush as the man who ended the Cold War. (Hat tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)

    • Tweets:

    Finally, America’s journalist class in action:

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    One Response to “George H. W. Bush: Passing Reaction Roundup”

    1. johnb. says:
      December 4, 2018 at 9:09 AM

      He was Mitch McConnell as President. Nice on the surface but an out of touch upper crust individual who believed in little except big business and the right of his class to rule. He was one of the templates of the now failing, wishy washy don’t-offend-anybody-who-counts Republican and Conservative. Hollow. If he was young and vital he would have been a Never Trumper. As I said, he seemed like a nice man on the surface, but he and his ilk sold his country down the river, particularly when it came to open borders. His loyalty was to his class and not the nation.

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