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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You can speak for me!! The media pundits you mentioned don't represent me and I am proudly right wing.
Pres. Bush has done much for this country and gets no thanks. Imagine what Gore or Kerry would have done to our way of life by now
Wow. You join today just to tell us that you quit.
How disingenuous.
And bringing up the deficit and Tom DeLay?
You liberals will never learn how to blend in, will you?
That's for sure... I don't see many changes in Arizona in '06, though I'd like to think our Governor will lose, but I'm a little concerned about Texas and (all the money Soros is pouring into screwing up the state); I know Texan's are smart, but I'll breathe a sigh of relief when this Delay thing reveals the truth behind his indictment.
All I know to say, is W. We love ya.
Come back to West Texas for a few days, we will remind you of the man you have become. We will hug you, and laugh with you. When the going gets tough.... The Tough get going.
W is my hero.
I don't disagree with anything you are saying. But why do I keep thinking that much of this has to do with Bush feeling that McLean and company would have undermined any other nominee, and he and the democrats would have put the Bush Administration on hold for the next 8 months, like they did with the Clarence Thomas nomination.
Yeah, ole Bush is pretty dumb, ain't he?
Kernow, you're as petulant as an infant with a full diaper. Perhaps you ought to get some sunshine and get away from all the navel-gazing you've been doing the past couple of weeks.
Your paragraph above is the same stuff I was reading about Reagan in his second term after Iran-Contra. It was no truer then than it is now, but chicken-littles know nothing but doom, despair, and agony on me!
I still read Peggy Noonan. I know she left her post to campaign for the President. But I get the impression that she holds some bitterness for the administration. Did Rove and company or someone shun her, or insult her? All her columns have this hint of sour grapes to them.
All I can say right now is that I hope Andy Card, the enabler, is happy.
And just how many "conservatives" do you think are in the U.S. Senate?
That is like Michael Jackson saying that he has not heard criticism from other pedophiles.
C'mon! The true conservatives like Michelle Malkin, Peggy Noonan, Ann Coulter, Robert Bork, Charles Krauthammer, et al. are in the commentator ranks--"Conservative Senator" is a relic of the past.
Or winter 2004, for that matter.
They all had to change their names?
After they were banned.
I think since she is largely an unknown, there are legitimate questions about Miers's qualifications and judicial philosophy, but the irritating thing about much of the wailing I've seen on FR about her nomination is that much of the hot air is blowing in from the same old cohort of "My-Way-Or-the-Highway Conservatives" who have jumped on any and every opportunity since 1999 to poke GW Bush in ths snoot. Their bellowing is akin to crying wolf, and has become so predictable that they have pretty much lost credibility in any serious discussion. Their threat to "leave" the GOP or to sit out the next election has been repeated so many times it's become tedious and empty. These folks may have indeed sat out the '04 election, but who noticed? -- GWB still received 61 million votes. The "true conservatives" who fire upon Bush and Republicans more than they do the Democrats are apparently so few in number and so unwilling or unable to contribute anything of value to any political debate that they're virtually irrelevant. They make me tired more than anything.
[Notice: anyone who is truly offended by my comments...well, they must apply to you.]
That's why I said, "sort of like". I know there are only two, the fictional character and the real Miss Marple, yourself. Further, I only compared myself to the fictional one.
Actually, the fictional Miss Marple is the "real" Miss Marple. I only strive to emulate her!
Actually we have won quite a few, since most of the "red" states are probably composed of true conservatives, as opposed to the Whiney RINO Northeastern Rockefeller types. Think Snowe, DeWinne, Collins, Chaffee, Warner, Graham, and the special one, Insane McCain.
All of that still does not make the nominee more than mediocre, The Mediocre Miss Miers.
I think perhaps we should look at the Supreme Court as a position that requires someone of common sense, rather than someone who is some sort of a legal genius.
In that case, Miers isn't that bad.
I think we'd all like to see this, but "W" is a measured man, he thinks before he acts and his Christian values play a huge role in his life.
We live in very troubled times, socially, politically, culturally and morally. It's not just in America either, but it's spread all over the earth. I look at what's going on in our world from a spiritual/religious perspective more than a political one, and what I see is a massive spiritual battle going on between good and evil; like the world has never seen before. So to me it isn't all about political genius, brains, cleverness and the like, it's more about facing the relentless hostility to everything good with unflinching faith and conviction. I think today we need a leader like George W. Bush more than some great political strategist. Bush is indeed surrounded by genuis-types and political wizards, but as I said this is a spiritual battle more than anything else.
I have never, ever seen a media so contemptuous and so blatantly biased. I've never seen the forces of anti-religion, liberalism, socialism and communism so strongly united and so vicious. The assault against conservative/religious values and tradition is animated by a phenominal hatred today, and possesses an almost demonic energy. It's just one attack after another on Bush, on Christianity, on the family, even on the Truth. It's astonishing to watch this stuff unfold everyday.
I honestly don't think any one man out there could do a much better job of it than Bush is doing right now. I say this because the opposition to whatever he does is so powerful and aggressive, and comes from so many sources united in evil, that only a calm, faithful man could hold it all together and stay the course. I know he tries to please everyone at times, and I think that's dead wrong and it aggravates me no end. But who out there right now could do a better job?
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-BUMP-
I still have hope for Bush.
Don't give up the faith.
He can float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!
You can do it, Mr. President!
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