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EternalVigilance wrote: Ah, calling more than 80% of the public racists becuase they didn't agree with you wasn't enough...Now they have some kind of mental disorder. Y'all really know how to make friends and influence people, eh?

What on earth are you talking about?

I haven't called anybody anything.

The 80% who were against the Dubai ports deal were uninformed and reacting to the blitz of demagoguery unleashed by the MSM and their yapping MSM lapdogs.

The Bush administration was caught flat-footed and didn't react in time to counter it.

I haven't called anybody anything.

No, you haven't, but the piece you posted from Wheeler, to boil it down to its essence, says: "Conservatives who disagree with the President have a mental disorder...the same one as the Left."

To which I say, "Jump in a lake, Jack."

I'd say worse, but it wouldn't be appropriate to the forum.

The 80% who were against the Dubai ports deal were uninformed...

Many disagree.

I, and many others, understand the deal quite well, and yet still oppose it.

Just because you claim we're ignorant don't make it so.

President Bush and the WH staff completely bungled this issue. Allow me to first apologize for not knowing all the facts, but work, family, and March Madness have seriously cut into my Freeping and research time.

I was in the camp with Mark Levin and Laura Ingraham: the additional 45 days would have been good to shed more light on the issue, while excoriating Democrats for making a political issue out of this. As more facts came out in the hearings, more support would have emerged for President Bush.

Instead, President Bush basically said, "trust me, it's a good deal", and that he'd veto any bill that overturned the DPW deal.

A very short time later, the deal is cancelled, amid statements that anyone who had opposed the deal was racist towards Muslims.

If my synopsis is generally accurate, then the WH staff needs to resign now. This country, and this President, is being ill-served by a staff that is out of touch with its base. I firmly believe that they are worn out and bereft of new ideas, and have lost the "eye of the tiger." I haven't seen them seriously engage the Democrats on policy issues since the election, and it looks like they're just trying to run out the clock.

Can someone out there tell me that I'm wrong? I need to start getting enthused about the 2006 election.

"The 80% who were against the Dubai ports deal were uninformed and reacting to the blitz of demagoguery unleashed by the MSM and their yapping MSM lapdogs.

The Bush administration was caught flat-footed and didn't react in time to counter it."

About as best a summation as any.
Bush PR is far from on the ball, but too many get so hung up on 'vox populi' poll-driven calculations in demanding Bush 'do something' they forget to ask: "Who's really right?" ... and the answer history will probably give us on this is ...

BUSH WAS ACTUALLY RIGHT ALL ALONG.

That's what history will say on other things as well - the invasion and liberation of Iraq; fixing Social Security; the global War on Terror actions such as Patriot Act (hated by ALCU) and program to intercept terrorist communications without warrants, etc. All these "scandals" over things BUSH IS DOING RIGHT!

And another thing: I hated the Miers nomination too, but anyone who brings up Miers now, right after the successful nomination and confirmation of Alito, is flogging a dead horse. They recovered from that, and to bring it up now is just Bush-hating for the sake of it.