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 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?
Speak for yourself if you want to blame conservatives.
President Bush was elected on a platform we supported. He let us down.
The Republican National Committee let us down too.
We did all we could do. He was already busted and almost out in the open in the First Term, but hut he was covered for by his party apologists. He was really already showing his philosophy as non-conservative, but he camouflaged himself with a few good appointments, and some careful rhetoric, and pointed appeals to conservatives.
But some things were just rather clear, from his pre-election multiculturalism pointed out in My Bush Epiphany by Lawrence Auster, to the conduct of his first term:
"Change will not come by disdaining or dismantling the federal role of education."He was a rogue. And as a lame duck he showed more of his true colors, instead of being more conservative... as Richard Vigurie, among many others, noted. On just a short list of his numerous abdications on conservatism and national security in the Second Term:"The rate of homeownership amongst minorities is below 50 percent. And that's not right, and this country needs to do something about it."
"I proposed doubling the budget for the National Endowment for Democracy to $80 million."
George W. Bush talks like a liberal. He governs like one too. In The Bush Betrayal , James Bovard painstakingly documents George W. Bush's addiction to big government. In doing so, Bovard introduced a welcome perspective--a right-leaning one--into the cottage industry of books criticizing the preside
1. His selection of Harriet "Glass Ceiling" Meiers for Supreme Court. We blocked it. Got the two okay appointments we did.2. His support for selling out to Saudia-Arabia and Dubai on the 55 American ports container handling control. We blocked it. He still didn't learn. He called us anti-Arab bigots.
3. His support for the Law of the Sea Treaty (which sets up the UN as supreme over us and can tax us)...which treaty Reagan had explicitly withdrawn and fired all of the negotiators from the State Dept. that had tried to foist it on us. He elevated only Admirals who supported it. Appinted them to the Joint Chiefs, etc.
4. His clear attempts to create an "American Union" A.U. analogous to the EU, all denied officially, but each and every "free trade pact" and secretive SPP meetings belied those. He had his proxies ridicule concern for this as "black helicopter conspiracy nuts."
5. His repeated attempts to force throught Illegal Alien Amnesty despite 85% of the American people opposed to it. We blocked him again and again, and he called us ....(Drum roll please) "selfish and bigoted".
6. His refusal to fix the porous borders...sitting on the fence, rather than building it.
Trillions in just this year for taxpayuer Bailouts for Goldman Sachs and their Friends. But no protection for U.S. manufacturing from the destruction by a Communist enemy nation. None.
7. Just the last three weeks: As As Frank Gaffney warns us:Bush is having his Treasury Dept. begin adopting "Sharia Finance" principles to kow-tow to Saudia Arabia to help bail us out of the financial mess he has created.
8. Loss of 3Com to China. We got CFIUS belatedly to object, but due to his inaction... Now a fait-accomplice. Their CEO is now a Chinese national and moved the HQ to Hong Kong. Our national security is now likely completely compromised, as the PLA will be able to penetrate our firewalls at will soon, if not already thanks to this.
9. And his background support for the McCain candidacy ...sending Rove out to circumspectly oversee the "future" of the Party. I.e., over more truly conservative options. His encouragement of the RINOs who pretended to be anti-amnesty to dilute the field so that McCain could win New Hampshire, South Carolina, and other primaries...and stampeded opponents to quit early, before half the states had weighed in... thus seal the nomination ...to create a false "unity" behind the candidate-SElect.