Posted on 11/05/2008 6:02:10 AM PST by FreeLuna
Thank you Pres. Bush for being a wholly inarticulate educator of and a hypocritical example of conservatism. Thank you for creating more Rinos than the Serengeti plains. Thank you for the greatest increase in government spending since ever and thank you for ignoring the obvious lack of troops in Iraq for so long that America turned against a fully winnable and incredibly justified war. Thank you for Pres. Obama. really....thanks.
Too bad he didn’t learn from his father’s mistakes about reaching across the aisle.
Bush is here clearly because he worked across the aisle and the left always uses that against the right.
Unfortunately we would love to have bi-partisan approach within our country but it just isn’t going to happen.
Bush also deserves all the crap anyone and everyone can pile on him.
The only positive point is he has kept American soil fairly safe during the last 8 years.
He totally blew it with Rumsfield though...aye yi yi
“For the first time now I, too, can say something is Bush’s fault”
I defended W to the hilt for years, all the while I prayed for him to step forward and teach America why he was right, historically and philosophically. He failed. He failed to sound the alarms of the Mortgage industries fiasco, he should have screamed from the roof of the White House if he had to. I love him as a person,but, he failed us all.
I think the negative assessment of W is a continuation of blaming everything on him. The blame propaganda was effective. I think a sober reassessment W will be coming after a dose of Obamachev.
The class of ‘94 began getting corrupted long before W got there.
W never was a doctrinaire, screw-the-Dems conservative; not in Texas, not in Washington.
It would have been nice to see him fight back once in a while, though.
But so too did all of the “moderate” / “centrists” Republicans. BTW - I love Mac as an American but his campaign's only real hope for life began with his selection of Gov Palin.
IMO this election should provide ample verification proof that if thee GOP goes with a Leader that is strong “moderate” rather than competent Conservative then one of 2 things is an eventual certainty.
1 - the GOP MAY win the Presidency, but its very unlikely unless you can force the other side to push really bad candidates like Gore or Kerry.
2 - if a "Moderate" is elected (as the not as bad candidate) they will set up the GOP for institutionalized failure because we will not be in opposition to the Dems without first having to be in opposition with our “Leader” and that will cause the GOP to take savage beating after savage beating in the press.
Eventually the GOP loses anyway.
The moderates were THE big losers IMO, so lets get to doing the hard work to find that Conservative Leader in the best likeness of Ronald Reagan.
Did you do enough to support President Bush when he was on the right track? And when he veered to the center, why didn’t you do more to help him move the country back to the right? Too many conservatives sat on their hands and watched as the president was attacked constantly AND DID NOTHING. Instead of guiding him toward a more conservative path, we threw him to the sharks. We didn’t help ourselves at all when we had the chance. We got lazy and complacent and left it to someone else to fix. Frankly it is idiocy to put the blame solely on one man when too few conservatives were there for the cause. One man can’t fight an entire world. Can you honestly say that you did enough?
Good post, thanks for saying that.
I agree. When President Bush and the Republicans look in the mirror they will see who failed to defend them. Compassionate Conservatism. Blah! Never want to hear those words again.
I don’t blame him for everything. I blame him for professing to be a conservative and then creating huge new programs of entitlements and presiding over a congress that spent money like teenagers with daddy’s credit card. I blame him for half-heartedly speaking out against Fannie and Freddie and for selling Iraq as a hunt for WMD’s and then stubbornly ignoring the facts on the ground until 2006.
Eric, keep in touch with me. I work with a MO GOP bigwig. After I thoroughly chastise his ass for 30 mins, Im getting back to work. MO GOP doesnt get another dime until Im onboard. It starts with Claire..
Bush has left an absolute shambles behind, and BO will only make it worse.
The big winner is Osama bin Laden. The modest “investment” he made on 9-11 has cost our country blood, treasure, and degrees of freedom, and now we get a President named after Mohammed’s horse (Barack.)
Bush is the “thank you sir, may I have another” president.
That has got to be the understatement of the year. Progressive vermin fomented and fanned the flames of anger and resentment against Bush into full-blown, gut-wrenching hatred so that every lie, slander and exaggeration was taken for granted as truth. This was all in preparation for Obama to be their messiah.
I don’t know. I donated, I voted, I worked the phones. Should I have marched with torches? I realize that he is not solely to blame,but, he was the leader of the party. He used conservatives to get elected and then turned his back. If I’m not mistaken his education and Medicare spending all came in his first term. When was he on the right track?
Thank him for the current Supreme Court.
Thank him for the war on terror.
Thank him for restoring diginity to the Presidency.
If you think he somehow destroyed the republican party, you are not very bright and are simply looking for excuses. While I have my problems with Bush, I don’t blame him for the political demographics of this country.
Also, the intel sector of the military was not ready to effectively use more troops. They would of been targets.
Also, the Sunnis were not ready to dump Al Queda.
So, for internal reason in Washington, the Pentagon and in Iraq, there was nothing to be done but be patient. Something which our enemies were not betting on that we could be. We were, they lost.
Iraq will be studied as a great success for hundreds of years.
“If you think he somehow destroyed the republican party, you are not very bright and are simply looking for excuses.”
It is true. I am not very bright. I expected a two term President to have some positive impact on an election and to actually be respected enough to be seen with his party’s candidate. I’m disappointed. I will fight on. I just need a day. Nah..maybe an hour. Perhaps history will vindicate W.
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