Thank You President Bush

Raquel's Commentary ^ | November 26, 2006 | John L. Overland Jr.,

[Raquel]

Even as I write this I know that people smarter than I will have written their own concise and analytical commentaries as to what went wrong for Republicans during the mid-term elections of 2006 and for me, that’s OK. My intent is not to analyze what went wrong for us but to express my own appreciation to a man often belittled, often maligned, and often unjustly so. That man is my President, George W. Bush, and right now I sincerely believe that the President needs some kind words. He has received damned little in the course of his Presidency. Instead, throughout his Presidency and certainly in the last week he has suffered the most vicious attacks, consistently from the Left but lately even from certain of us on the Right, and it’s time to provide an honest appraisal.

Many of my fellow conservatives rending their robes and gnashing their teeth right now, angrily insisting that the President never meant to lead a conservative revolution and that somehow he betrayed the cause, need to take the midterm results with some historical perspective. President Bush came to office in the aftermath of a bitterly contested election that was ultimately settled by Supreme Court decision. A slim Senate majority greeted his inauguration, which was promptly erased with the exit of Jim Jeffords from the Republican Party and which was not restored until the midterm elections of 2002.

[avacado]

Thanks! I really did feel bad about what I wrote.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

I thank GOD every day that President Bush has been in office these six years.

He is a champion of small business.

He (and the Republican Congres) has stopped the Globaloney Warming idiocy of the Algores

He has fought the fight to get Bolton in at the UN, and to get not just the 2 Supreme Court Justices but other Judges - despite the Demonrat blockades.

He has maintained family values in the White House instead of gutter sex that was there the previous eight years.

We have not had the legion of "mysterious" deaths as did during the Clinton years (Vince Foster, Ron Brown, to mention just two of dozens).

And we have not been struck in America again by the Islamic fascist terrorists!!!! I remember being very afraid on 9-11-01 - and hearing over and over that we would be hit again. We have not been. Thank you, Mr. President!

The free spending ones in Congress gave him little choice - either sign the bills or veto them and be subjected to the Repubs in Congress going back and probably NOT being able to get better bills. Their majority - in the Senate esp - was paper thin.

I shudder to think of the day President Bush is no longer President.

[DCPatriot]

Indeed!

God Bless President Bush.

[Raquel]

Very well said Freedom, especially...

"And we have not been struck in America again by the Islamic fascist terrorists!!!! I remember being very afraid on 9-11-01 - and hearing over and over that we would be hit again. We have not been. Thank you, Mr. President!"

I live in NY and by the time I arrived at work on 9/11 on 59th and Lexington Avenue (uptown from Ground Zero) around 9:30 a.m., both towers had been struck. It is indeed a scary feeling. It's also worrisome to know that Democrats are on the wrong side of the Iraq War and in their zeal to ruin Bush, they're convincing Americans that the War is a failure. But any historian will tell you that this War is one of the best ones fought. If we went in with more might, maybe things could have been better. But it's the Democrats always pushing us back, always coddling tyrants, always protecting terrorists, always weakening America for a more universal approach to government. It is indeed a scary feeling.

[Killborn]

Excellent article.

This is what happened to Joe McCarthy.

And like McCarthy, many of his own supporters turnedd against him.

I hope that the American people won't let the left get away with McCarthyism yet again.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

"But it's the Democrats always pushing us back, always coddling tyrants, always protecting terrorists, always weakening America for a more universal approach to government."

Don't you know that the enemies of America are just licking their chops waiting until President Bush is out of office???

That fact alone should make us all afraid.

[Raquel]

Unfortunately it seems the liberal Democrats and America's enemies have similar goals. I agree with you 100%, unless we find a suitable candidate, without Bush, we're doomed in 08. What do you think of Brownback?

[occu77]

Like Reagan, Bush will do much better in the eyes of history than in his own day.

Some people live out all of their popularity and achievements in High School, so to speak, and others - it takes the world a while to catch up to them.

The future looks at some men and sees the past, then again it looks at other men and recognizes itself.

[Les_Miserables]

"Thank you for two Conservative Supreme Court judges. I only wish the people "teaching" the Republicans a "lesson" would realize that they screwed themselves for a 3rd Conservative Supreme Court judge."

Just for clarity, what decisions has this court made that can convince us that the new jurists are the types of conservative judges most of us hoped for? Seems to me the "jury" is still out on these two and as for the third, well he could nominate Harriet again, sure to get Reids support.

[avacado]

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"Thank you for two Conservative Supreme Court judges. I only wish the people "teaching" the Republicans a "lesson" would realize that they screwed themselves for a 3rd Conservative Supreme Court judge."

Just for clarity, what decisions has this court made that can convince us that the new jurists are the types of conservative judges most of us hoped for? Seems to me the "jury" is still out on these two and as for the third, well he could nominate Harriet again, sure to get Reids support.
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Look at their past record in the professional lives. They are Conservatives. And then look at if Gore or Kerry had selected the judges. Ouch!

Be happy with Bush's selections.

[Les_Miserables]

What specifically in their past? Or are we just drinking koolaid? Only after we see what they actually do can we be sure... Remember Souter...happy with him? As far as I'm concerned the jury is still out. To credit Bush with much here is wishful thinking ... hopefully it will work out, hard to see how it could have not been an improvement but clearly Bush is no conservative and it's yet to be seen if his judicial appointees will turn out to be. Let's not count chickens before they hatch.

[avacado]

Like I said, Gore or Kerry could have been in place to pick those judges. Count your lucky stars.

[juliej]

Hi, Raquel!

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