Posted on 06/06/2004 5:44:43 PM PDT by quidnunc
You are beyond wrong. Perhaps Reagan was better behind a microphone, but Bush is very amiable when he is not trying to give a formal speech, and is just with the people. To say he is a dunce is DU and leftist propaganda isn't it? Why are you over here?
it is easy to pick out two actions like Education or medicare and make a comparison, but he don't see any Marines leaving a country as a result of an engaement with the enemy. I don't recall the legislation closing either the education department or the national endowment for the arts. President Regan was a great president and he used his power carefully and did not waste energy of losing battles. The prescription drug card is an idea from Newt not President Bush. We are lucky to have another real conservative leading us not someone who talks a good game but can't get any laws passed.
Throw in self-promotion ad nauseum, and you pegged it.
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Well, at least you got the part about not demonstrating wit right.
So, you're insinuating that Bush is a dunce I gather.
That is one confused statement. I would suggest that you first look at a map of the Near East. Second, familiarize yourself with the situation in Lebanon at the time. Third, look at what preceded and followed our foray into Lebanon.
But you have totally missed my point as well. It was that regardless of matters of personal pride, Reagan put American interests first.
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Utter tripe. You take yourself far too seriously bozo.
It is getting too late to keep posting--at these hours most of those reading this are those who have already posted; those committed, not really considering. But I will take the bait, one last time. It does not excuse the Administration for adopting a wrong-headed, unConstitutional program, because Newt or some other former political leader, proposed it. That is the same foolish argument that little kids use to justify doing "what the other kids are doing."
If indeed you are a conservative (which I seriously doubt) AND you consider Reagan to be a great as you say you think he was, then you are soiling his memory by violating his eleventh commandment.
If you have an argument, make it. Otherwise, at least develop a better way to avoid it.
"There shouldn't be any comparisons"
Why?
A: Oh, I'd say about four pounds.
Ridiculous. Reagan wasn't the perfect being you make him out to be and Bush is certainly not the "brain damaged...DUNCE" you make him out to be either. By the way, despite your self-proclamation of conservatism, I find it hard to believe that that kind of extreme rhetoric could come from an American conservative about this president. I think you must be confused about what you believe.
Glassman's overall thesis has merit. The two men share certain character traits and a certain common outlook on American politics. The major distinction is that Reagan didn't have to deal with 911. Bush did. Many of the foreign troubles that were recognizable when Reagan was in office but were not as acute have had fifteen years to fester. At long last the infection came to a head. GWB had to lance the boil in the interest of the security of the American people. I would be willing to bet that Ronald Reagan, had he been in office these past three years, would have done the same.
Pompous self-inflating prose, totally devoid, despite your claim to the contrary, of any substantive argument, always makes me want to hurl, bozo. Retire to the drawing room, puff on your pipe, and discuss these weighty matters with your peers, the boys from the Elks Lodge.
I love this, you claim to be this uber conservative Republican yet you use a DNC sound bite.God, I must bow to your intellectual honesty and superior wit.
President Bush is a conservative but isn't willing to risk political immolation for the sake of principle. He did promise voters a prescription drug benefit in 2000. Apart from that, I don't see where he's added a major new social program. And he's cut taxes and presuming he wins in November, we'll see tax reform in a second term. The enemy of the good (especially conservative good) is insistence on the perfect.
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