[pissant]

True, silence is not the answer. Defending oneself by being aggressive, confident, AND civil is what he does best.

I still think his silence in defending the war over the summer was a strategy to embolden the defeat/retreat/traitorous democrats to come out and say what they really think. Now he's got them on the Ropes and only Murtha, Pelosi and a handful of others are still clinging to the idiotic retreat rhetoric of september.

[Jeff Chandler]

I still think his silence in defending the war over the summer was a strategy

I disagree. I believe that W thought that the truth would be obvious to the American people, and that he had more important things to do than to constantly campaign. He seems to have finally realized that he has to constantly "sell" his policies to the public to counter the Marxist Media.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

I still think his silence in defending the war over the summer was a strategy to embolden the defeat/retreat/traitorous democrats to come out and say what they really think.

Now he's got them on the Ropes and only Murtha, Pelosi and a handful of others are still clinging to the idiotic retreat rhetoric of september.

You're right. Bush and Rove are Texan turkey hunters. When hunting turkeys you hide in the bushs (no pun intended), make turkey gobble..gobble..calls....wait for them to come out of hiding....then at the exact right time you unload on them. Works everytime.

..I'll give you a "back side five" when the time is right. When you see it...you come out and demand the filibuster.

[Siena Dreaming]

I still think his silence in defending the war over the summer was a strategy to embolden the defeat/retreat/traitorous democrats to come out and say what they really think. Now he's got them on the Ropes

I agree totally. Engaging on their level is a waste of energy. Wait until they are over-confident that they own the field, then come in with full guns blazing.

God bless President Bush. When he was quiet, I knew he was just holding his fire.