Dont let the door hit you on the way out.
"... an adventerous war in Iraq on the idealistic notion of recreating Iraq in our image: nation building, in other words."
...or, in the words of the liberals.
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Disasters and wars kinda change things. It's nice to be fiscally responsible but in any emergency, priorities change.
Then choose a candidate you can support, and work for him/her/it to get elected.
It is very difficult to govern from the right, or the left. Perhaps people don't really recall Reagan as President, and his administration has become some conservative dream that it was not. He knew he had to compromise and he did. So does Bush.
Bring back Newt to lead us down the RIGHT path. I'm tired of the new compassionate conservatives. Damn big government to Hell. In 1994 the Republican movement had some courage, now they're a bunch of over spending, power mad skirts.
Sorry guy but there is no comparison.
There were numerous reasons to go into Iraq,one of which was to light the fire of democracy and civilized existence in a region that has been a burning cauldron of barbarism for as long as recorded history.
It will take a long time to work if it is going to but with events of the last decade it is worth a try.
It is somewhat unfair to characterize it as "adventurous" or "idealistic".
There is a solid motive.
So...John...how long have you been a mole?
Don't let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya!!!
And you are...?
Can't sell tax cuts and Social Security reform for 2006 when two US cities have been hit by Cat 5 hurricans.
Mike Pence and twenty houuse conservatives are how we can retake our party!
What ever good you want to do, get it done in Republican primaries, because after that we need to vote Republican or we'd be enabling left leaning Democrats into power.
Oh No, Not THIS crap again!
Regarding Iraq, Saddam was financing terror in Israel and elsewhere, the bitch had to go.
Pardon my dog talk.
In before the ZOT?
Lockstep republicans here are like lemmings.
Since when was the goal to recreate Iraq in our image?
Sure Saddam was a butcher, a tyrant and all of the above, but in the war on terror he was a second-rate player.
Why was he second rate, and who do you consider first rate?
The war in Iraq is also unconstitutional as were the wars in Korea and Vietnam because Congress has the constitutional power to declare war.
Unconstitutional? "Regime Change" in Iraq had been national policy since 1998, despite the DNC's short-term memory. That and the post 9/11 Congressional authority given to Bush by Congress allowed him to implement it, until the 2004 Presidential Election when it became the "wrong war, wrong place, wrong time." (har har) Did I mention the flouting of 17 UNSC resolutions by Saddam and violation of his own cease fire? We could monday morning quarterback how the war has been conducted, but we're there now and have to win.
We had far more cause to declare war on Iran, which has served as the terrorist kingdom since 1979: especially because Iran has given safe harbor to Al-Qaeda's top brass.
And you think Congress would have declared war on Iran instead - why?
I'm no Bush-bot, but your Iraq argument is low on most conservative Bush critics' totem pole. A better critique would be immigration/borders, not pressing for energy independence, not fighting the war on terror to win, and not mobilizing the country for a long-term war. TROP speeches, asking us to go shopping, and failure to call our enemy by it's name "Islamo Facism" are not inspiring in a time of war. BTW, are we at war?
Who are those A-list conservatives who want to make a rebellion against President Bush? Buchanan?! Why you do not just go and form your own Absolute conservative party?