Mind you I agree with most of what Ann says, especially the "Bush is no Reagan/no conservative" line of thought. BUT, have her columns completely descended into rambles?
I don't read her all that regularly, but I have no truck with this particular column.
I like GW and, all circumstances being the same, I'd vote for him again. But.......overall I do not consider him a conservative. Sorry folks. I had high hopes of a Reaganesque conservative in W, but that is simply not the case.
Two major things I wanted and feel we are all owed by Bush:
1 - Agressive, proactive action against terrorism. He's done pretty well, but the will to stand up to PC by profiling and leaving old ladies and babies alone (duh?) has just not been there.
2 - Firm and aggressive policy towards appointing constitutionalist judges to the federal courts (and publicly standing up to smears by DIMS). So so. He has time to redeem himself, but I don't expect any changes from what has been done thus far. My intuition says that the best we can hope for is that we don't end up with a *more* liberal court a few years from now.
Oh, and one other thing: How about some vetos for crying out loud?