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Jul. 16th, 2020 10:42 amhttps://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/07/16/jeffrey-lord-never-trump-republicans-would-have-hated-reagan-too-947421
Ed Rollins, Reagan’s former White House political director and 1984 campaign manager (at the time, this writer’s boss) would recall in his memoirs that he believed the establishment George H.W. Bush to be “a very nice man” whose “main talent lay in cultivating friendships.” But Bush had made clear his establishment disdain for conservatism in the primaries by attacking Reagan’s tax cut plan as “Voodoo economics, which showed he didn’t believe in the Reagan economic plan.”
Rollins continued:
“To those who worked for Reagan against Ford and the Republican establishment in 1976, George Bush personified everything they’d battled all their lives. Picking him would be seen as a particular betrayal by the true believers.”
And when Bush was picked as Reagan’s vice president as a peace-offering to the establishment? Rollins writes:
“What I didn’t realize at the time was that we’d just cut the fuse on our own revolution. The conservatives had won, but then surrendered the future back to the eastern establishment moderates. … A phrase popped into my mind for the first time to describe my feelings about George Bush: Trojan Horse. The enemy was in our camp.”
Ed Rollins, Reagan’s former White House political director and 1984 campaign manager (at the time, this writer’s boss) would recall in his memoirs that he believed the establishment George H.W. Bush to be “a very nice man” whose “main talent lay in cultivating friendships.” But Bush had made clear his establishment disdain for conservatism in the primaries by attacking Reagan’s tax cut plan as “Voodoo economics, which showed he didn’t believe in the Reagan economic plan.”
Rollins continued:
“To those who worked for Reagan against Ford and the Republican establishment in 1976, George Bush personified everything they’d battled all their lives. Picking him would be seen as a particular betrayal by the true believers.”
And when Bush was picked as Reagan’s vice president as a peace-offering to the establishment? Rollins writes:
“What I didn’t realize at the time was that we’d just cut the fuse on our own revolution. The conservatives had won, but then surrendered the future back to the eastern establishment moderates. … A phrase popped into my mind for the first time to describe my feelings about George Bush: Trojan Horse. The enemy was in our camp.”
