Bush: socialist or right wing extremist?

I have no doubt in my mind that history will exonerate GWB. I have not always agreed with him and the war has gone on beyond our expectations, but I am still very proud to be an American and Terror-Free for seven years. I don't believe will ever have another Presiden that will be as Pro-Life as GWB unless of course Sarah Palin every gets elected.

from RedState.com by Josh Painter

Is President Bush a right wing extremist, as Al Gore charged, or is he the socialist Bristol baby conspiracy theorist Andrew Sullivan implied and conspiracy theorist at large Lew Rockwell insists?

The answer is neither, of course. But the president has surely taken a beating from both sides of political center over his two terms in the White House. Ed Gillespie explodes some of the myths from both left and right about the Bush record in an op-ed for RealClearPolitics.com. Democrats have attacked the president for his tax cuts, and the meme “Tax Cuts for the Rich” became one of Barack Obama’s most often repeated talking points during the campaign. In reality, says Gillespie:

There are not 116 million “wealthy Americans,” but that’s how many taxpayers benefited from the President’s tax relief. The across-the-board tax cuts provided tax relief to every American who pays income taxes, created a new bottom 10 percent bracket rate, doubled the child tax credit to $1,000, and actually increased the share of the Federal income tax burden paid by the top 10 percent of individual earners from 67 percent in 2000 to 70 percent in 2005. Furthermore, this administration removed 13 million low-income earners from the income tax rolls completely.

Environmentalists and other liberals charged that George W. Bush payed no attention to issues that are of concern to them. Read how Gillespie counters @RedState.com