Bush Recoils from Greatness

Townhall.com ^ | October 3, 2005 | Pat Buchanan

[HonestConservative]

Pat B summarizes conservative concerns quiete well here

[Huck]

It'll be fun to see the hearings. If she's not qualified, we'll find out.

[Rocko]

Where was Karl Rove in all of this? Is he so distracted by the Valerie Plame investigation he could not warn the president against what he would be doing to his reputation and coalition?

Yeah, sure.

[Irontank]

So cynical...the President said today...she was the best person he could find...and how can you doubt him? After all, she was the head of the Dallas Bar Association...I mean...with credentials like that....

[Rokke]

Well, if Pat still has relevancy on any topic it is the topic of recoiling from greatness. I used to respect him. But that was about 10 years ago...when he had potential to be something almost great...instead or irrelevant.

[Pondman88]

Last time I checked....W has won two Presidential election, Pat has a nice gig on PBS.

Hmmmmmmmm.

[Virginia Queen]

Sour Grapes!!!

[dfwgator]

Hey I'm pro-life too, so that's all it takes to be a Supreme Court Justice, cool, sign me up. Oops, I not a woman, so much for that.

[RebelBanker]

Posted yesterday with a different title:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1495924/posts

[marlon]

I agreee with you Rokke. Buchanan has become little more than the left's favorite conservative to quote, after John McCain that is. I used to respect him and I still think he's right on a few issues but I think his whole schtick these days is to try and bash Bush and other Republicans as if to say, see you should have picked me as your standard bearer.

I too would have loved to see a Janice Rodgers Brown or some such but I can't tear down Harriet whatever her name is since I, like everyone else, know nothing about her. I do trust that Bush does however and he's been pretty spot on with all of his other Judicial picks so maybe he knows a little bit more than all of us Monday morning quaterbacks.

[Dog]

Tony I think it's his staff...

[rightinthemiddle]

Pat has become a Tool of the Media, and the Left who wish to regain power for the Dims. If he supported Bush on anything, they'd ignore him.

The only reason the Media gives him any attention is because he bashes Bush. "Let put on "Crazy Pat" to show the big divide in the Republican party!"

He would rather win his little battles and lose the war. Let him have his moments in the limelight.

Pat, I agree with you on illegal immigration and spending, but you can kiss my hillbilly butt.

[RebelBanker]

Tony,

Please check out a different take on Ms. Miers:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1496346/posts

FReegards,
Reb

[Rembrandt_fan]

You wrote, "Pat B summarizes conservative concerns quiete (sic) well here."

Buchanan doesn't speak for the conservative viewpoint. While talking head cable programs often include him as their idea of a conservative, he quit being conservative several years ago. When not railing against the Israeli lobby, the 'neo-con conspiracy', or the prosecution of ordinary, law-abiding former concentration camp guards, he takes potshots at the President--sour grapes, I think, because the POTUS ignores him, as do most mainstream Republicans.

[cynicom]

Bush will be known as tough in war, weak kneed in all else.

[dfwgator]

Pat has become a Tool of the Media,

Actually Pat is just a tool.

[Bommer]

Wow! A whole article from Pat without the mention of "Jews" in it!

[rightinthemiddle]

That was going to be my last line, but I went for "hillbilly butt" instead.

Pat has become an Elitist. I, and Bush, have not.

If we didn't have a bunch of wussies in the Senate, we could have Janice Rogers Brown.

Bush trust Meirs more than he trusts Frist.

[JesseJane]

Deserves to be said again.

Reshaping the Supreme Court is an issue that unites Republicans and conservatives. And with his White House and party on the defensive for months over Cindy Sheehan and Katrina, Iraq and New Orleans, DeLay and Frist, gas prices and immigration, here was the great opportunity to draw all together for a battle of philosophies, by throwing the gauntlet down to the Left, sending up the name of a Luttig and declaring: "Go ahead and do your worst. We shall do our best."