Posted on 10/19/2005 9:49:50 PM PDT by freedomdefender
In 1986, George W. Bush reached a crisis point in his life and changed what wasn't working. He dug deep and got serious. He got humble. He questioned himself. He can do it again, and should.
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This may be the truest thing that Peg has written in the last few years.
Once again there's a family in crisis, and it's conservatism. He can let it break up, or let it wither under his watch. Or he can change. Just as he learned at 40 that to keep his family he had to become part of something larger than himself, he should realize as he approaches 60 that he has to become part of something larger if he is to save his administration. And that "something larger" is a movement that has been building for half a century, since before Barry Goldwater. The president would be well advised to look at the stakes, see what's in the balance, judge the strengths and weaknesses of his own leadership, and get back to the basics of conservatism. Which again would take humility.
LOL at "let it [conservatism] wither." He's shooting at it. Hitting it with a shovel. Insulting it. Filing for divorce. Pick your metaphor, it does not resemble "letting it wither."
Look at the acrimony and insults on this board. Those are the voices of the GOP lashing out against conservatives.
Humility? HUMILITY??
Don't make me laugh.
ping
HUH? I've watched the same "voices" you have on this board. Those voices of conservatism who line up with PEG don't represent me.
Now might be a good time to dump Rove and replace him with Peggy.
He questioned himself. He can do it again, and should.
Now this reads just like a Maureen Dowd column. But since I've been reading Noonan for about 12 months, I know that she doesn't have much more to add.
I think Rove is way to distracted because I can't believe he would let this kind of stupidity happen if he was calling the shots on this one.
Don't make me laugh.
Exactly. My observation, cynical though it be, is that the GOP power base is miffed at those who object to the Miers nomination. The WH and the GOP have been insulting those who object to the nomination.
So, the GOP can adopt the label "conservatives," and I'll be content with being a far right, cynical, elitist, sexist religious bigot.
I apologize for misusing the label "conservative." I'm apt to lapse into misuse of the label sometime in the future, but that will just be an old habit dying hard.
You ignorant fool.
First Post?
Welcome to FR!!
LOL, nice try.
You responding to post #6 or #7 ?
LOL.
This emotional stuff is a real rush. I hope I'm not addicted or anything.
Whether it's the mass media or the obstructionist Democrat Senators, the Islamic terrorists or natural disasters, the leaders of the various 'minority' groups or the homosexual lobby, the abortionist fanatics or the RINOs, even leftover Clintonites in the Pentagon, FBI and CIA, there is always something standing there, furiously attacking or opposing the President at every turn. Yet he stands up and faces it all with courage and tenacity. Where will anyone find a better man out there?
When you consider the state of the world, troubled as it is today, and the great moral decline in America that has led to the legalization or fostering of every 'deadly sin', the Clinton messes left for him to clean up and the terrorist attacks on the WTC, the Pentagon and how they adversely affected our economy, how can anyone realistically expect one man to turn it all around or to never make a mistake while trying?
I think Miers was a mistake and I've said so a few times on FR, but so what? Every man is entitled to mistakes; and for all we know Harriet Miers could turn out to be a great Supreme Court Justice.
This emotional stuff is a real rush. I hope I'm not addicted or anything.
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