Posted on 10/29/2005 12:38:08 PM PDT by wagglebee
It is a characteristic that George Bush has in common with Lincoln. Since 9/11, his presidency has been focused entirely on the great challenge of defeating an ideology that uses depraved tactics in an effort to enslave the entire world.
Great observation.
Yep. Interesting that many of those who hail Reagan as the end all be all in Presidents would of been as angry with him in the late 1980s as they are with Bush now.
BTTT
Excellent read, Thanks for posting it
Excellent summary of the reality not the beltway mentality.
Ping for a must read
"At various times it was posited that Chief of Staff James Baker had hijacked the Reagan agenda."
I recall, actually it was written in a U.S. Government (the academic class, book by Lowe & Ginsburg), that Baker was a George Bush Sr. man, as was the appointed head of OMB (whose name I forget). I was totally astounded, and dismayed, when Bush was chosen as V.P. for Reagan. Recent history has not changed my opinion.
The walk on water conservatives were constantly mad at Reagan as a governor and as a president.
Like GW, he was savaged by the MSM and the real true conservatives. It seems that his approval rate in his second term at one time was about 30%.
Yet, like GW, President Reagan kept focused, kept the walk on water conservatives and the MSM from electronically lynching him. In the end he restored confidence and pride in America with over 50% of us and destroyed the USSR.
Everyone wants to know why Bush is so hated. The reason is because the leftists, socialists and media recognize that George W Bush is one of our greatest Presidents. Many of his own party do not even know it, but all of his enemies know it. To the left, this fact causes total fear. It is fear that creates the kind of hatred they display. It will be many years before his real greatness is understood by many; but the left know it now.
Focus. Attention to what matters most.......... These are the things that will put George W. Bush in the history books as a great President who was the right man for this hour.
(Good thing he doesn't waste his time reading most of the threads on FR.......)
He has expanded the federal budget, and created new and unnecessary entitlements.
He ignores a very serious border issue.
God bless him for being strong enough to take on the terrorists on their own turf, rather than waiting for them to come here, but domestically, I'm not impressed.
Reagan is more deserving of getting on Mt. Rushmore than GWB, IMHO.
Excellent read. Thanks. :)
Great opinion piece, the writer, for the most part, nailed my view on the importance of the WOT and Bush's role and beliefs. It was also good to see the admittance, that like all of us, Bush has flaws, I also agree with the writer that Bush has the big picture right.
The WOT is this generation's, and maybe the next's, cold war. It is one we can not afford to lose, it is one we cannot be distracted from by peripheral issues that would become irrelevant if we were to lose the WOT. It should be the one issue that stretches across the conservative/progressive divide, but sadly, the progressive left seems incapable of rising above partisan politics, which leaves the burden squarely on the shoulders of the conservatives. The public is behind us, and Bush, when it comes to leading the fight against global terrorism, 55% to 29% according to the recent Battleground Poll. Conservatives have the responsibility and duty to fulfill and live up to that trust. If we lose this war, conservative or progressive will not matter.
1 prosecute the war on terror zealously (declare an actual war) and hold nations immediately accountable for their actions/inactions
2 establish a national program to vigorously pursue energy independence: 50% in 10 years and 100% in 20
3 absolutely secure the border, expel all ILLEGAL aliens, and then establish a guest worker program to bring some back in an orderly manner
4 massively cut non-military federal spending and make his tax cuts permanent
5 nominate qualified constitutionalists to the court
Great reading!! Thanks!
LOL. Yup, too busy.
Amen.
Thanks for posting this outstanding article. How very true this is. If only most of our Senators and Congress people would realize what's at stake and begin to act like representatives of America vs their own selfish agendas.
God bless George W. Bush.
"Ronald Reagan helped form my conservative sensibilities. I am bemused now to hear conservatives speak as if Reagan could do no wrong. I remember, during his tenure, often harsh criticism from the right."
Did Reagan increase the rate of federal spending the highest it had been since the New Deal?
No. It took another "Republican," George Walker Bush, to do that.
Bush is a Great Society Democrat, like that other Texan, Lyndon Johnson. At *best* he's another Nixon.
Any way you look at it, he's a failure.
With Republicans like him, who needs Democrats?
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