Posted on 05/05/2006 1:31:43 PM PDT by TBP
Carter swims at the bottom, but below him has to be the sleazy Lyndon Johnson with his "Great Society" which continues to perpetuate poverty and draw illegals over the border to this day.
I say let the Rats win....especially if Bush doesnt veto this spending bill.
Ackkkkkkkkkkkk!
Dont worry about me...I never have any candidates with an (R) next to them. The CAGOP is a complete failure in that aspect. Even the Pink RINO Dreier is over in the San Gabriel Valley
"He's suggesting we'd be better off with
AL GORE!!!!"
Uh no, he said just the opposite. Try reading it again.
Maybe 2-3 times.
Dreier: Just another aging political ho with a receding hairline.
The dirty little secret is that democracy doesn't at all reliably select the best person for the job.For example, we accept that Ronald Reagan was an excellent president between 1981-1989 - but for how long before that was Reagan the best man for the job? 1976, certainly - but for how long before that? Was Nixon better than Reagan would have been? Unlikely in the extreme.
Was Johnson better than Reagan would have been in 1965-69? Get serious - Jimmy Carter woulda been as good a president as that! Would Reagan have been a worse president than John "Bay of Pigs" Kennedy? Very unlikely.
I first voted in 1960, and in all that time Reagan was the only candidate I unambiguously thought was the right man for the job. And actually, that is only natural - because there is no principled way for the Republicans to select the best candidate in a multiperson race in the primary. You run into the "rock, scissors, paper" problem that in a field of three, you might choose A over B, if those were the two choices, or B over C, if those were the two choices, or C over A if they were the two choices.
The problem is compounded by the fact that the best person to be president does not necessarily even present him/herself as a candidate for the nomination - as Reagan did not, in 1960, 1964 and 1968.
First paragraph told me where this was going, so I did not read all of it.
I read enough to tell me, another dumb a*ss who will have to
eat his words, if he can get his foot out of his mouth.
SoCal ping
An excellent piece. He's right on target.
This perception, right or wrong, as an objective characterization of the truth, is what is tanking Bush. And he has tanked. I don't see him recovering. But there is always hope. That was the one thing left in Pandora's box.
I certainly agree with McIntyre's criticism about the runaway spending. It's worse than the liberal Democrats. Under Klintoon, domestic discretionary spending went up 2.3 percent per year. Under Bush, it's gone up 8.2 percent per year. It's completely out of control.
Iraq has in some ways been mismanaged, but basically his criticisms are off the mark. I do wish the Administration would promote the newly-translated documents showing the Al Qaeda-Saddam connection and showing that the WMDs were there. I also wish they'd bomb the Sunni Triangle. This would shorten the war by quite some.
It does disturb me that Osama bin Laden hasn't been found, but I know our guys are working on it. I just hope it gets done soon. (We should have bombed Tora Bora harder than we did.)
Bush is no conservative, by any means. Far from it.
So far, so good. While most of the blame for the post-Katrina mess rests with Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin, the Federal response was not as effective as it could have been. Harriet Miers was a disaster. McIntyre's right abouot that. The best line on Miers was Ann Coulter's "She wouldn't have been the most qualified female lawyer in 1875, when there were 75 of them." And everyone knows I found the Dubai Ports deal horrible, considering that Dubai si today (not pre-9/11 but now) and active supporter of Hamas and an active donor of funds to the families of homicide bombers. (China shouldn't be allowed anywhere near our ports either. In fact, we shouldn't allow Chinese goods into our country as long as they have nuclear warheads pointed at us.) And Dubai, China, and other hostile countries shouldn't be allowed anywhere near supplying our arms either.
It's really pathetic to watch a formerly-respectable conservative prostitute himself to a bunch of liberals so he can make certain they buy his next book.
A stud he is not.
I heard some of this live this morning on his show. I was cringing into my pillow.
I have listened to Doug since the first night he went live on KABC during the 2000 presidential election fiasco. He impressed a lot of us with his political and historical knowledge. No doubt about it, he's a smart and well-read cookie. He made waking up to nurse the baby almost fun.
I don't understand why Doug is not aware of the documents and other evidence (General Sadr [sp?] and his book!) that Saddam sure did have WMD and sure was using and planning to use them. The connections to Atta and Al Qaeda. The very real possibility that the anthrax used after 9/11 in the USA was from Saddam. I agree: Bush's PR on the Iraq war stinks up the place.
And Bush on immigration infuriates me. Don't get ANY of us SoCAL conservatives started on Bush and the illegals.
I know that Bush is not among our best presidents today, but what if the WOT works? What if we do outfight Muslim extremist terrorism like we did Soviet communism? It might take a while but it is possible if we lose political correctness and keep our courage up. Al Qaeda and our drive-by media are both enemies in this war, but we can do it.
I don't understand why Doug needed to pour forth his manifesto today. I don't agree with his bottom-of-the-heap assessment of Bush, agree that any assessment is premature, and also don't think the glass half empty pronouncement even helps in any way.
This is where I stopped. Anything else after that is pretty much boilerplate.
Moron Poster Bump. Anyone who says this NEVER voted for Bush in the first place. So not only is the author completely clueless, he OBVIOUS is a liar as well.
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