[TheRealThing]

Trump is a RINO at best and a Trojan Democrat at worst. He certainly is not a conservative.

This should come as no surprise to people who watched the South Carolina debate last night as Trump accused George W. Bush of lying about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and blaming him for the 9/11 al Qaeda attacks.

I can see him saying that about Bill Clinton, though I don't agree with him and you know why. Democrats and the media couldn't have stolen more of the Reagan legacy to formally credit Bill with if they'd wanted to, and they did. Most of the Clinton phenomena owes it's success to Reagan, not Clinton. Other than a few notable boneheaded policies, like the decimation of the US Armed Services, CIA and the FBI, all Clinton did was continue solid programs already set in motion by Reagan. In saying that, I will say that in a general comparison of the two Presidencies, Clinton v Bush W, Clinton comes out on top in the minds of many people. But to say that, one has to ignore the fact that Clinton could have taken out Osama bin Laden and chose not to do so. That precipitated 9/11, which crushed the US economy with over 3 Trillion in lost revenue in war, trade and the stock market. It was the perfect storm come to call, exacerbating the affects of the global economic downturn of 2007 here in the US. None the less, comparing Clinton to Obama would be like comparing Washington to Carter. No contest. Bush H was still Shangri-La, so he's wrong.

And may I just say on a side note? The mass exodus of US industry into Mexico and other foreign lands began under Bill Clinton. After the passage of the NAFTA, it's been all downhill and I suspect the TPP to be a double down of the same kinds of trade inequities from the American perspective.

Consequently, I am a little tired of one of he late breaking gems of political wisdom. That being the belief that governors always make the best Presidents. I doubt that is true, though in the case of Ronald Reagan and the unfortunate case of Mitt Romney, it is true. In Jeb's case, not so much.

George W is not guilty of lying to the Congress about Iraq. They all (Congress and the Executive Branch) saw the same intel, and the little bit of stuff George had that they had not seen, was dutifully turned over to the Congress promptly upon their demand to see same. Trump is wrong about that.