Watching a doc on W they covered Bush 1. He really didn't think voters would pick Clinton over him. Not out of arrogance, just like look at my resume.
Perot probably was the difference
For you kids Clinton avoided if not dodged the draft and Bush 1 was a war hero
That was the end of that argument.
It's why NOC about bone spurs
Yep.
Bush I went to sign up for the Navy 5 minutes after graduating from Andover. With his connections could have easily bone spured his way to Wall Street and let the everyday people fight the war. But the establishment didn't do that in those days ... at least not as much.
As you say, no desk jockey. A fucking pilot who was in the war. Then returns to Yale as a married student with Babs, plays on the baseball team and was actually a great player and a great student ... again, at Yale.
Then struck out from the family and went to Texas, where he was a stranger, to start his business. Struggled there to break into politics because "they could smell the New England on him," but nonetheless made himself a key player in the Texas GOP and worked his way from there.
He was also, by reputation, an honest and hard working guy. Beyond that, he carried himself the way you want someone representing you to carry themselves. And he wasn't impulsive and was a good listener.
A bygone guy from a bygone era. Yeah, he had a silver spoon, but he did something with it.