(vanity) Bush's Messages Unsent

[rvoitier]

One word for Bush's SC pick:Betrayal

[rvoitier]

Rush talked about all the work done by countless Conservatives over the past 5 decades to reach this point in our country's history only to have George Bush offer up a wet noodle SC candidate and how disappointing the choice is. I couldn't agree more. In return for believing and fighting for Conservative values, the base got a slap in the face for our loyalty.

I wasn't looking for a "poke-in-the-eye-of-the-Democrats" nominee, just one a lot closer to it.

Not doing so, Bush also errs greatly in other areas. His pick:

• fails to send a strong message to the Markets that trial lawyers will have a tougher time winning get-even, wealth redistribution lawsuits.
• fails to tell the country we're getting back to a representative government where who you send to Congress and the Constitution they shape matters.
• fails to tell the world community that 'We're Back!' A strong Conservative would've been worth a shot across the bow of all tyrannical despots, including the U.N.
• failed to send the message to liberals to 'Back Off!' A stonger nominee would've pushed them even further over the edge and even more clearly expose their un-American ways.
• failed to send the message that America is a Conservative country. A strong candidate would've made this country proud to be Americans again as did Ronald Reagan in the '80s.

Reviewing Bush's record I see this:
1. A proper response to Islamofacism (he had no other choice) although Rumsfeld is weak in its pussyfooting execution of it. The clincher for me was when the 21 soldiers from Ohio(?) were killed in an amphibious vehicle using grossly thin armor plated sides.
2. Open borders and the free-flow of illegal immigrants. Also his coddling policy of same.
3. Runaway Spending and Growing Big Government. FDR would be proud, not Ronald Reagan.
4. Steel Quotas. At least he didn't raise taxes, eh?

Yep, one word comes to mind...

BETRAYAL

of the people who voted him into office.

[KingKongCobra]

One word : Strategery

[Mo1]

Soooooooooooooo does this mean we should slit our wrist now??

[JennysCool]

Yup. The knee-jerkers just never get it.

[KingKongCobra]

Let's all run around peeing ourselves until we get dizzy and pass out.

[Mo1]

I'm thinking some are already doing that

[Southack]

Oh please. Miers is a pro-life, evangelical, mission-sponsoring Christian fundamentalist who chaired the committee that selected Judge Pryor from Alabama (**the** most right-wing Judge on the federal bench in America today), Judge Janice Rogers Brown from California, as well as Chief Justice Roberts.

The only thing betrayed by President Bush's SCOTUS pick would be the bias against him from fringers.

[rvoitier]

How about voting for real Conservatives instead?

[Rokke]

Who do you have in mind?

[KingKongCobra]

I'm sure that your idea of a real conservative is some nitwit like PJB. No thanks.

[rvoitier]

Biased because I don't want runway spending?
Biased because I don't want illegal immigration overwhelming our ablility to handle them?

[Mo1]

ok .. I give

Who should be President instead of President Bush ?

[JerseyHighlander]

Hello rvoitier, I hope you don't mind me adding my bullet points to yours, though I think we're almost speaking the same truths here:

• Bush ran from the fight,
• he ran from his prior public announcements,
• he surrendered an entire decade in the future culture wars and burdened the cohort of Young Republicans with taking up the fight,
• he inexplicably wasted a 55 Senate seat majority, AND made it much harder for Republicans to maintain that majority, if the even deserve such political fortunes
• he has encouraged current Justices to remain on until his term ends
• he selected a woman because she's a woman,
• he nominated to the Supreme Court a lawyer who made him his fortune in the litigation and sale of the Texas Rangers, stinking of cronyism, giving a nod to the trial lawyers, and reinforcing his tacit support of the Kelso decision
• he gave Sen. Reid a stronger position in deciding his nomination than the public voices of his voter base,
• he denied his base the core promise he made to them,
• he has revealed he used switch and bait tactics mouthed through his media pontificators when the WH through them demanded us to suck it up and "compromise" during debates over RX plans, immigration reform, Campaign Finance Reform, the absence of a veto pen to stop the outrageous bloating of the Federal budget and Appropriations Bills, CAFTA, and others by using the promise of Supreme Court Justices as the payoff for all of the sacrifices,
• he used the payoff of a Conservative Constructionist Supreme Court as a bludgeon to stifle all dissenting debate within the party and the Republican/conservative/libertarian national debate, proving right those who were labeled too far to the right by our common political adversaries on the other side of the aisle

The WH just gave a huge phallic hand gesture to everyone to the political right of Arlen Specter.

On the other side, there are valid arguments too, including being a private industry lawyer, and a Beltway outsider. And she is a Texan. She was a senior partner in a lawfirm that is a rainmaker in Texas.

Dozens of jurists and lawyers with documented backgrounds who are a decade younger were passed over. Dozens, it's a very bad thought that there are hundreds of conservative lawyers and law professors in this country who could name more than a dozen better qualified and younger potential nominees than the one the WH has selected. As a young Republican who will one day see the battle to fill the seat Miers will vacate, I cringe at the idea of a Bush family crony positioning her way into the USSC through representing the President in the deal of his life through a dubious mess that was the Texas Rangers imminent domain and public funding sagas, at the expense of the grandchildren of today's conservatives who elected Bush to the WH twice.

[rvoitier]

And that message resonates soooo clearly to the masses. Yeah, right.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Hold your arms, straight, outward, when you take that swan dive off the cliff.

[Southack]

"Biased because I don't want runway spending? Biased because I don't want illegal immigration overwhelming our ablility to handle them?"

Yes, you're biased...because Miers as a current SCOTUS ("betrayal!" you claim) appointee has nothing to do with those past issues.

You started your own vanity thread bashing GWB's pick of Miers as a "betrayal," then can't name reasons for it and have had to change the subject to immigration and spending instead of staying on your own SCOTUS topic.

So yeah, you're pretty well busted as being some mindless Bush-basher who will toss *any* mud from any subject to see if something sticks to Bush.

[BigSkyFreeper]

If it doesn't now, it will soon.

[rvoitier]

Look, start making sense, will ya? Bush *is* our president. For future presidents I'd like to see a real conservative in office.

[BigSkyFreeper]

How about voting for real Conservatives instead?

Name one. PJB has shown he only energizes the goofballs.

[Southack]

"The WH just gave a huge phallic hand gesture to everyone to the political right of Arlen Specter."

How?

Please read post #7 before you reply.