Bush blasts Judge Greer as "vigilante;"Sorry, he said that about Minutemen. My bad.

Ap 24 05 | churchillbuff

[churchillbuff]

The minutemen haven't broken any laws, haven't been arrested, haven't cruelly twisted the law to suit private agendas. So by definition they're not what Bush called them: "vigilantes." Probably most of them voted for Bush.

I do wish he would show as much energy denouncing ACLU, Kennedy, the kill-Terri Schiavo crowd in Florida, as he showed in denouncing the minutemen. It's easy to denounce a group of patriots who the New York Times hates. It's hard to denounce liberal heroes of the politicallly correct crowd.

I wish, for example, that he would take back the way he distanced himself from Tom DeLay's denunciations of liberal judges. Greer is the true vigilante, defying congressional subpeonas and twisting the law so Terri could be killed. So are the federal judges who defied Congress on the Schiavo matter. Why doesn't Bush denounce them, instead of slamming the Minutemen, an easy, New York Times approved target?

[dagnabbit]

I'm guessing because...Bush is an immigration-leftist?

[ken21]

notice that el presidente bush did NOT go to his buddy's wedding in mexico.

[freekitty]

Didn't Bush's wife go in his place to the wedding?

[o_zarkman44]

Bush can just not please all the people all the time.
But politics is exactly an attempt at riding the fence on every issue to maximize voting potential.
Politicians dance the all too familiar dance step all the time. Yet we keep re-electing them. Why change their dance when there is no need to learn that the people demand more, and are willing to go to the extremes to make their point? The minutemen prove that point. Will politicians get the hint? Doubtful.

[EagleUSA]

I do wish he would show as much energy denouncing ACLU, Kennedy, the kill-Terri Schiavo crowd in Florida, as he showed in denouncing the minutemen. It's easy to denounce a group of patriots who the New York Times hates. It's hard to denounce liberal heroes of the politicallly correct crowd....
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For we Constitutional conservatives, Bush has been a very mixed bag. I voted for him, and support him fully on our anti-Islamofascist activity. But when it comes to domestic "political warfare" he, IMHO, has been an abysmal failure to all of us. ALL OF THE REPUBS HAVE. Certainly they are not worse than the communist left, but they are not fighting for what is needed in America, when they have the voter-bestowed power to do it.

It gets back to my normal frustration rant, that Washington is more worried about their personal politics than they are doing what is right for America. Distilling it down further, the Repubs are afraid of the MSM, they are afraid of the loud-mouthed socialists in our Congress, and they ARE IN A STATE OF POLITICAL PARALYSIS that is SELF-INDUCED.

We are lost, as real Americans, if the Repubs do not stand up and start spending the "POLITICAL CAPITAL" that Bush flaunted when he won his second term. The next three years are do-or-die for us.

[AmericanChef]

I'm thinking if a Rat was in the White House, those Minutemen would all be in jail right now.

[stitches1951]

For we Constitutional conservatives, Bush has been a very mixed bag. I voted for him, and support him fully on our anti-Islamofascist activity. But when it comes to domestic "political warfare" he, IMHO, has been an abysmal failure to all of us. ALL OF THE REPUBS HAVE.

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I couldn't agree more as far a Bush goes. Some Repubs have stood ground, but too many just have an (R) after their name. So many voters are forced to choose Republicans as the lesser evil rather than first choice. We believe they stand for principals we hold dear, but the reality is very different far to often. The McCains and Specters are becoming more the norm than the exception.

[hosepipe]

Bush does appear to be Vincente Fox's B!tch... don't he..

[ThreePuttinDude]

First the Swifties, now the Minutemen.
Damn these 2 groups epitomize what we all stand for if you ask me.

[Graycliff]

Not sure The President actually called them vigilantes, i believe he said he didn't support vigilantism.

[Oniolover]

I don't know about that. Despite common beliefs, the swifties didn't help Bush win, he won because he made a better case for security, moral issues, and taxes. The minuet men are just publicity hogs (much like the swifties). What are there like 500 people (including reporters and gawkers) on that 30mile stretch of border. Hate to break it to you but, the border is lot longer than that. If it takes 500+ people looking out for border crossers to control the flow for every 30mi stretch of border, we’re screwed. I'm not sure if they have proved anything.

[ThreePuttinDude]

The minutemen, I believe, are just doing what they think the government should be doing. By patrolling the 30 mile stretch, and reducing the flow of illegals by their presence, they are showing us that a difference can be made.

[Robert_Paulson2]

I don't think it's vincente jerking him.
I suspect it is the worldwide community of globalists.
You don't get elected to high office unless the 'powers that be' have the goods on you, sufficient to pull your strings and force your choices.

Otherwise...

How a 'Christian' guy can support the concept worldwide globalism is beyond me. The Bible has somewhat to say of an attempted worldwide government headed by a 'beast' in the end times.

[Oniolover]

That's wher I beg to differ. How long is the border? Thousands of miles long, if we had that many people guarding every strech of our border we would go bankrupt in the process.

[Oniolover]

That's where I beg to differ. How long is the border? Thousands of miles long, if we had that many people guarding every strech of our border we would go bankrupt in the process.

[hosepipe]

Good points...
Something stinks.. and its not only Hillary either..