Posted on 11/08/2006 4:27:22 AM PST by tsmith130
Once, just once, I wish Bush would go on TV with a stack of Iraqi documents and clearly and methodically explain to the American people exactly what Iraq was all about.
Kristol is an ASS. Bush is probably going to congratulation the Democrats and give a speech saying he will work with them yada yada.
Bush will announce we killed Zawahiri, Bin Laden, and Geddah two weeks ago but didn't want to seem political.
As I posted in another thread.
Iraq is the main reason the GOP lost, along with their fear of fighting the media. Until Republicans realize that Iraq is not popular with most Americans, including Republicans we will continue to lose.
If things in Iraq are the same today as they are two years from now, kiss the White House goodbye.
What now, Mr. President.....gonna change the tone in Washington?
I understand your frustration but bottom line he is our President, he is the Republican President and by sitting out of this election we did not help our cause.
Better late than never....get the Truth out!
Too bad it wont happen. A more realistic event will be "Dubya", trying some type of group hug.
Who ???
Oh, el Presidente Jorge !!!!
He shouldn't have to! Any person with any intellengce at all knows why. Besides, the President has explained it over and over.
BTW, I am sick and tired of all of these Bush bashers on FR.
What principle that he abandoned? He ran on the platform of compassionate conservatism, which resulted in No Child Left Behind. If we understand 'economic conservatism' as 'free-market' idea, having cheap labor from neighboring countries, and selling port administration power to anybody who is willing to pay the highest are not contradictary with 'conservative principles'. It is when we combine 'nationalism' with 'free-market' and call it 'conservative' that we see them differently.
Republican Congress people are about to be schooled in how to act like the majority. Hilarious.
I made a point the last couple of days for which I took great ridicule. I said that Rove, Bush & Co. knew the ONLY way to pass amnesty was to have a Dem. congress.
I believe we have been had !
I wish he would!
That's exactly what he'll do. Bush is Bush. He'll reach across the aisle in a spirit of bipartisan cooperation, which to the Dems will mean, give us everything we want. They think they've got a mandate.
And to all of those who think he'll find his veto pen, I doubt it. The only legislation he'll veto is WOT-ending bills. He'll try to stave off the withdrawal from Iraq. He may or may not be successful in that. Beyond that, I doubt he vetos anything.
Oh, come on. He has run the war pretty badly, if nothing else, the media took control of the war 5 years ago. We never saw much of him taking on the media over it either, did we.
The average first midterm election loss for every elected president since 1914 is 27 House seats and three Senate seats. The average sixth-year midterm election, like this year, is much worse for the president's party, which typically loses 34 seats in the House and six seats in the Senate.
Well I agree with you on so many points.
Except I have one question...if conservatism always wins (as common sense would dictate it SHOULD), two losses last night sort of belie this dictum.
Rick Santorum remained close to his principles and he's such a nice guy. Yet he lost. And what about Bob Ehrlich in Merryland? Here's a guy doing a fantastic job in a solidly blue state yet he was essentially FIRED against an avid airhead, Baltimore Mayor O'Malley. O'Malley accomplished exactly nothing during his tenure as mayor yet the guy gets elected as Governor over a nice guy like Ehrlich.
I'll not pretend, at least for now, to not be severely bummed out this morning. As for my hero Rush Limbaugh, he's got some splaining to do. He always says conservative principles win yet THEY DID NOT!
Things will look up soon enough, or at least that optimistic part of me whispers in my mind. If God is in his heaven, guys like Ehrlich, Santorum, and Steele will step up to the podium and throw out that entrenched Republican leadership and start infusing some new blood.
The way things stand now, the path is paved for a President McCain in 2008. Somehow this depresses me even more.
As for Bush, yea the man never sat down in that mighty Oval Office, looked the American people in the eye, and told it like it is on this War on Terror. He let the Dems have that mighty talking point about Saddam's NO weapons of mass destruction. He waffled over the Valerie Plame joke. He gave Kennedy that "no child left behind" joke and he pushed through a Medicare prescription plan that almost no one likes. Bush is no communicator and he had so much power to lay it on the line. Ah well, he'll be gone in two years.
Then we'll have President McCain.
Oh joy.
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