Just shortsighted. Those who are concerned about America's future need to rally around the President who is under unparalleled attack from enemies foreign and domestic because of his fight against international terrorism. Weakening him weakens conservative principles of patriotism.
Lincoln faced the same hatred fueled by the RATs of his day but at least he had no real opposition from the rest of the world. Our allies today are just a few. Bush does not need unprincipled attacks upon him.
Your weak and absurd personal attack against me implying that I am unpatriotic and unprincipled will now be laid to rest. In addition, I will demonstrate your distinctly compromising shortsightedness and the danger therein of losing the future to the DemWits.
On the war against radical Islam, Bush has done a fine job. So far, on taxes he has done an outstanding job. On the U.N.'s utopian nonsense, he has alternated between fair and poor, in spite of unleashing Bolton to cleanse and thus shore up respect for this consistently anti-American enormity.
On the border, he has been worse than the Democrats, and I will believe Chertoff's words only when accompanied by sustained and longterm action. With Congress' help, he has swelled the government beyond any Socialist's wildest hopes. On spending, again with Congress' assistance, he has been horrible--even worse than Johnson--while yet excluding defense spending. Printing all this paper will, of course, bring disastrous inflation when the private owners of the Fed are ready to harvest; and who will the people elect then but populist kook or Fabian Democrats?
You seem to view politics as a professional team sport where, indeed, it does not matter who plays on the team as long as the team is winning. Even if this is your realpolitik, recall that conservatism works on all levels. Hence, not practicing conservatism will lead to failures as history itself attests; and, the problem of inflation gutting the economy will be just one problem among many that will propel DemWits to election in 2008. Furthermore, inconsistency of policy attracts chaos. On social conservatism, Bush alternates between fairly good and poor. This isn't triangulation at work. Do not fear to practice conservatism even if you fear to preach it, lest avoidable disaster ensues and the DemoNuts recapture power. Triangulation can only succeed with massive AND accepted misinformation allowed by public lack of interest and by public lack of focus. Today's public is not the public of the 90's. Information about, interest in, and debate over political direction and ideé has intensified greatly and overwhelms all attempt at triangulating the social nexus. Not being sure where in the chaos the GOP leadership is to be found on social conservatism is no longer good enough as this, to many, surprising unease over Miers confirms.
Therefore, no! I will not just shut up and take it as long as America is a Free Republic under God. Tack Bush to the right or lose the fight.