Bush blocks his own way while giving Kerry a free pass [Sad but true]

Chicago Sun-Times ^ | February 12, 2004 | BY ROBERT NOVAK

[EQAndyBuzz]

Bush Sr. lost because he said no new taxes and the RATS hammered him on having to raise them because of their out of control spending.

Bush Jr. doesn't suffer the same problem. He cut taxes and wants to make the cut permenant. The RATS cannot fight that. He is a wartime president. The RATS cannot fight that. The economy is back in full swing. The RATS cannot fight that.

The RATS once again are going after character and the fact that their potential candidates totally lack character (Kerry, Hillary, Edwards) makes this election even easier for Bush.

Right now Bush needs to weather the condemnation of the left, be steady in his views and pick his spots. Drug plan, immigration, no child left behind are all designed to take away from the lefts core issues. The gay marriage proposal also doesn't help the left. So basically they have nothing but Iraq and no one in their right mind would want a liberal in office to face serious national security issues.

My advice to the RNC would be to start going after liberal Senators and put their states in play. Hammer Levin, Daschle, Rockefeller. Don't let up on them. Show them for what they are. Take presidential politics out of the equation until after the convention and start trying to figure out how to get some more House and senate seats.

[johnny7]

9-11 is just a fading memory. Many say Bush over-reacted in Iraq and maybe even 'ginned-up' the evidence for military action. No WMD's is the constant drumbeat.

He's not a war-tested veteran in the eyes of the media... surely not of the same cloth as John Forbes Kerry with his band-of-brothers.

I hope you're right . But when I go to the supermarket and scan the people in the aisles, I don't see your optimism in play.

[Consort]

..."there are several ways the GOP can help elect Kerry"....They're on that path right now.

Conservatives voters always point the finger at someone or something else. Remember the axiom: "It's the voters, stupid."

[Consort]

The history lesson is that Bush 41 should have been reelected whether he liked it or not; whether you liked it or not.

[petercooper]

1/2 of voters are idiots. I hate that some ignorant bastard who doesn't pay any income tax and is on welfare gets to cancel out my vote.

No votes for deadbeats!

[petercooper]

Why doesn't anyone ever mention Ross Perot getting 20 Million votes in 1992??

Without that, Bush 41 would have won.

[wayoverontheright]

I hope you're right . But when I go to the supermarket and scan the people in the aisles, I don't see your optimism in play.

Most of my optimism is based on the admittedly unprovable theory that 9-11 was cathartic, quite possibly more so among women, who surely moved security up to the top in what they want from a President. The importance of this issue will wax and wane, but it's my contention that it will be pivotal within voting booths this November.

Kerry simply doesn't excite women enough to overcome their recent realization that the smoking gun perched in W's holster is now strangely a very attractive accessory.

[MissAmericanPie]

"Why some Conservatives are so insecure that they jump on the bash-Bush bandwagon is a mystery to me."

It shouldn't be a mystery to you. Some of us are more farsighted than others. We have sat here for three years and watched this elite step right in the middle of our faces regarding illegals. A smart leader doesn't go skipping off through a mine field while lobbing grenades left and right.

Not once, but twice he attempted to sneak a 245i amnesty past his conservative base. Mexico has been far more important to him than his conservative base and he was willing at the time to pay the price. Now you guys are outraged because it's time for him to pay the cost he himself chose to pay?

Conservatives astute enough to realize what the amnesty of twelve million illegals with no end in sight to the number of future invaders will do to the direction of the nation politically find arguments that we are one issue voters numbingly stupid. As if we are to throw away the entire direction of the Republican Party for this one pandering President. My advice to the "one issue" accusers is go pour gasoline on your house and light it then tell me what your one issue is.

Amnesty and voting rights for unfriendly invaders is a political career killer, the entire future of conservative representation in this nation hinges on the outcome of that one issue. What to do about the enemy in the gate has our attention far more than who is running in the demonrat column.

Bush has an extremely short time to correct course, and he is such a pompous, sheltered, elite that he won't do it, he will stubbornly hang onto his love affair with Fox and globalism even if it costs him the election. That's his call not mine. My call is to do whatever I think is most likely to preserve conservative representation in this nation.

[Consort]

Why doesn't anyone ever mention Ross Perot getting 20 Million votes in 1992??

Perot always gets mentioned on these threads, sooner or later. He hated Bush and fooled a lot of voters into helping to defeat Bush. I hear he is now a big outsourcer (?).

[johnny7]

Without that, Bush 41 would have won. Can you prove it?

[veronica]

Your solution? President Kerry. Pathetic...

[Sabertooth]

The history lesson is that Bush 41 should have been reelected whether he liked it or not; whether you liked it or not.

I voted for Bush 41, and I'm voting for Bush 43.

I blame Bush 41 for losing his voters from 1988, and I will blame Bush 43 if he loses his voters from 2000.

Presidents and politicians aren't well-served by yes-men when they err.

Learn the lessons of History, or risk repeating it.

Was VHS better than Betamax? Was Windows better than Macintosh?

No, but Sony and Apple blundered, and lost markets that were their to lose. Is that the fault of the consumers?

[MEG33]

Who is the conservative "representation" that you seek to preserve?

John Fonda Kerry?Is he the man of the people,a non elitist, who will solve the illegal problems ?

[petercooper]

Perot got 20 mil
Bush 39 mil
Clinton 45 mil

do the math

[Sabertooth]

Laura Ingraham thought it wasn't a great job by Bush, either.

Put her on the malcontent list, too.

Ingraham, Buckley, Novak, Noonan: DU trolls, all of 'em.

President Bush is the best of all possible Presidents in the best of all parties and gave the best of all possible interviews while running the best of all possible campaigns.

Mmmm... this is the best of all possible Kool-Aid.

[Consort]

Some of us are more farsighted than others.

Farsighted: also known as hypermetropia, hyperopia — a vision problem.

We have sat here for three years and watched this elite step right in the middle of our faces regarding illegals....

It sounds like you're trying to make the score:

Illegals / Democrats Bush / you / me

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[roses of sharon]

Their obsession with Mexicans overrides a Kerry/UN/Soros victory, who's goal is to "burst the bubble of American supremacy". Their love of Amercia only goes so far.

[grumple]

written by a liberal Bush hater, for liberal Bush hater consumption. Too many liberal cliches', especially that overly used-by-Clinton word "juggernaut" when defining the Republican party...

[Sabertooth]

We conservatives need to Wake Up. We do not decide the election. The 20% undecided do.

And the alienated stay at homes.

How a candidate "does" on television is a huge factor in their decisions.

Lose TV, lose the election.

Sorry, but that is the real world of politics in 2004.

Good luck selling reality.

Can we go back to haranguing now?

[MEG33]

I believe the panic is premature.