Posted on 11/09/2005 2:11:49 PM PST by MAKnight
Good day Mr. President,
With all due respect, sir, what in the name of the Almighty is wrong with you?
And when I ask you this question I do believe I am speaking for the vast majority of those people who walked the precincts, sent down the checks, who cheered loudest when the Ohio results came in last year in November. I am talking about your supporters. Those of us who have and most likely will continue to stick by you until the day you finally return to Crawford three years from now.
We are the ones who have kept your poll numbers up when everyone else expected and hoped for them to go down. We are the ones who have remained your staunchest supporters even as the world mocked and insulted you. More importantly, We are the ones who got you elected, re-elected and provided you with majorities in both Houses of Congress, not just once, but twice.
We are the ones who hope and pray that you succeed.
So, again, with all due respect Mr. President, listen and take heed; we're tired. We're sick and tired.
We're sick and tired of seeing your poll numbers descending into the twenties. We're sick and tired of watching attacks by the other side and their Press allies on your Administration being met with only impotent and cowering silence. We're sick and tired of reading far better arguments on behalf of your own policies from the keyboards of anonymous posters on a myriad of websites than we hear from the mouths of your Administration's spokesmen (and this includes you). We're sick and tired of watching so many good men and women being slandered by the Democrats and their Press allies simply for being your nominees, without your Administration standing up to defend their honor. We're sick and tired of watching your administration compromising on the principles that got you elected, avoiding necessary confrontations, refusing to criticize even the harshest and most mendacious of your opponents, all in order to pander to an audience that hates you beyond the scope of reason.
And at the end of it all, what does your administration have to show for it? A torrent of anger, hate, lies and attacks from the other side and the Press that cannot have been any more than what you would have gotten if you had gone all out for a truly Reaganite Republican agenda and defended yourself and your administration, instead of listening to so-called "moderates/centrist" demands that you triangulate and turn the other cheek. Your continued dedication to cowering from your opponents in order to enamor yourself to the Left (or the so-called "Center") has only yielded continuously declining poll numbers for your administration and disastrous portents for your party's future as the majority party in Congress.
For goodness sake, why is it not yet obvious to you, Mr. President, that this dogged adherence to this "new tone" fantasy is actively harming you and your party? How much longer is your administration planning to continue imitating a punching bag? When, in the name all that is holy, are you going to start fighting back?! You are being overtly accused of deliberately sacrificing the lives of American soldiers in Iraq for personal gain by the Senate Democrat Leader and his Press allies, and yet you remain silent!
Why should I, or anybody else, continue to fight for someone who lacks the fortitude to defend his own honor and principles? Why should I continue to take the time to defend you when you refuse to defend yourself?
Mr. President, once again with all due respect, I implore you, stand up and fight. You were not elected to get along with Democrats or to make them like you. You were not elected to just get "things" done, but to get the "right things" done. You were elected because the American people trusted you more than the other guy to know what those "right things" are. Stand fast and fight back. Not just because you owe it to yourself, but, more importantly, because you owe it to your party, which made you their standard bearer and do not deserve to be dragged down along with you. Because you owe it to us, your supporters. Even more, you owe it to the soldiers fighting in Iraq, because you sent them there and yet they still gave you over 70% of their votes last year. And, finally, you owe it to the country, which looks to you for leadership, which needs to know that you did not send the best of its sons and daughters to die in vain.
Stand up and fight.
That is all.
Sincerely Yours
MartinAKnight
YES!
Better than the loyalists that ask no questions.
Also telling is the fact that the most conservative commentators in our country had to fight the President for 3 weeks on the Miers nomination before it was rescinded. It was the last thing any of them ever wanted to do.
But Americans who believe in principles over persons need to fight harder during this administration than they/we anticipated.
You need to work in the WH PR office.
You did a far better job of highlighting Bush's success than any of his minions to date!
Congrats and hope your job offer comes soon!
Politics is a poker game. And if you think Bush doesn't know what the heck he's doing by not responding to the hysterical, conspiracy-minded rants of the dems, you ain't paying attention.
Ever hear of "give 'em enough rope"?
Defend socialism all you like..I know I'm right.
Speaks for me. Good job!
That was a lot. I hope I can ping this for later.
Bush Accomplishments ping
I'm with you on both, Paul.
I thought we didn't negotiate with terrorists ....?!
Condi Rice, on O'Reilly, said, point blank, that Bush was most concerned about how "history will treat him". What a disgrace. He really DOESN'T have the will, or desire, and it's an absolute DISGRACE.
I know. I guess if its the PA then they get a 'get out of jail free card' *sigh*
No bloodshed, no bribes. He just paid room & board for the crew and had to chop the plane up and take it out on a ship.
The other stuff is what the Dems would have done.What is the point of voting for the Rs?
Wow
And after all that, to not fight back? To allow the possibility of Hitlery as our next president, by not fighting back.
Sorry. You make excellent points of progress. But he needs to fight back, not that I'm saying you're not imploring the fight.
Thanks for the post. It's hard to remember the good stuff when the bad is so glaringly bad.
It's not just him. It's Cheney, Frist, Hastert... Especially CHENEY... For all of Gore's faults, he was Bubba's attack dog, defending him against one and all... And he did a GREAT job at it. Cheney's been an absolute disaster the past couple of years... I wish he would be replaced by Condi.
That's exactly the point IMHO. His minions are NOT talking him up, not reminding us of his accomplishments, not fighting for this administration, instead they are wimps. The point about our sons and daughters hits home the hardest with many of us who have sons and daughters fighting in this war. That's why I'm mad as hell about W not fighting. Allowing anti-American legislators to get away with treasonous and seditious remarks that can cost lives during war is inexcusable.
Come on W, QUIT BEING MR. NICE GUY!! Your are endangering our sons and daughters by not fighting. They're fighting for you--FIGHT FOR THEM!!
Yeah it's hard to defend him on Katrinia when he gives them the "I take responsibility" sound bite.
It was so obvious who the idiots were, and it was easy for people like us to cite that information and send a lib running with his tail between his legs.
But no matter how much you defend him, and how well you do it, it's defused when the President caves.
My prayers are with him.
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