"I'm not going to tell some gay kid in the audience that he can't get married," Bush said.

"But I'll gladly take tons of money from people who think I believe that and say it all the time."

Anything that reminds the electorate of what George Bush did as president is fine by me. The GOP would like to erase our collective memory of the man and especially his policies because their policies haven't changed at all.

markg8, I completely agree with reminding what happened with the last Republican President, but I think the GOP wants to erase the 'Bush Years' so people won't remember that it was the Republican controlled Congress that gave Bush his policies, and then some.

With the Democrats in control, while Obama is receiving a lot of plaudits, there are still a good number of conservative Democrats making any policy difficult to implement. With Bush, the Congressional Republicans were taking whatever moderately wingnut policy Rove could come up with and taking it one step further.

"there are still a good number of conservative Democrats making any policy difficult to implement. With Bush, the Congressional Republicans were taking whatever moderately wingnut policy Rove could come up with and taking it one step further."

I personally used to make fun of the lockstep tendency on the right, but at the moment I really wish the left had some of that message discipline.

It's very hard to convince people that the government is the right entity to handle health care reform when one is insisting otherwise that the same government mishandled the bailout, gave the country to Wall Street, didn't do one thing right, including putting the right people in place, and is bogged down in Afghanistan.

These are deeply conflicting messages. I'd like to get onto one thing until this is done - health care reform and support for it.