Posted on 04/10/2006 8:45:19 PM PDT by rodeocowboy
Is Bush's Second Term Becoming a 'Harriet Miers Presidency'? by Jerome R. Corsi Posted Apr 07, 2006
Watching the immigration bill charade unfold in the Senate, many conservatives have begun to wonder if President Bush left his political compass back at Crawford?
Conservatives were very happy with Bush right through his second inaugural. But the Harriet Miers nomination was a shocker. There was so much conservative backlash that Miers had to withdraw her nomination. But, we were only some three months into the second term, and anybody can have a “Harriet Miers Moment,” trying too hard to thank a friend.
Then there was the State of the Union speech. There President Bush went “green” on energy, mouthing a line better than the political left or the radical environmentalists could make up, saying that America is “addicted to oil.” Wasn’t Bush an oil company executive once?
Someone should remind Karl Rove that conservatives like to drill for oil. What ever happened to the proposal drill in ANWR? Again, conservatives couldn’t believe what they were hearing. Was the Bush Administration’s solution to America’s dependency on foreign oil really going to be wood chips and switch grass? Bio-fuels were always a Democratic argument. What happened?
Then, the Dubai ports deal accomplished something most conservatives thought impossible. Defending Dubai, the President actually lost his ground on his major strength, the War on Terrorism. Bush actually allowed the Democrats to posture as hawks on the national security issue. Conservatives were beginning to get numb with shock.
Now, Bush is praising Senate Republicans for working with Teddy Kennedy and Harry Reid on the immigration bill. G. Gordon Liddy is right when he says the Senate “just sold America out to Mexico.” Bush and Sen. John McCain will probably never understand that for most true conservatives a “guest worker” program is just amnesty in disguise. Conservatives care about securing the border. For conservatives, “guest workers” are still illegal aliens. For conservatives, the illegal immigration threat is about national security, not NAFTA.
A strong conservative base voted for Bush’s re-election in November 2004. The President has made a series of decisions that suggest he wants to move more to the center, something the conservative base does not view with favor. Or maybe, as many have speculated, Bush is truly a CINO (Conservative in Name Only).
Still, there is one more explanation. Maybe Bush has decided to work secretly for the election of Hillary Clinton as President in 2008. Since the 2004 election, Bush has gone out of his way several times to talk warmly about President Bill Clinton’s budding friendship with his father, Bush 41. Surely the President realizes that most conservatives still cringe at the mention of Bill Clinton’s name.
But maybe the plan is to establish a Bush-Clinton dynasty? First Bush 41, followed by William Jefferson Clinton, followed by Bush 43, followed by Hillary Rodham Clinton -- that’s how the dynasty idea would go. From there, probably we are supposed to return to Jeb Bush, to be followed by Chelsea.
If that’s the plan, forget it. For most conservatives, even the mention of Hillary’s name is like the sound of scraping your fingernails on a blackboard. Conservatives might someday buy Jeb, but Chelsea? Probably never.
A “Harriet Miers Presidency” in which George W. Bush abandons his conservative base is a very bad idea.
If Karl Rove thinks the Republican Party will gain by pandering to all those illegal immigrants, maybe he should first worry about how many conservatives he is going to alienate in the process.
Right now, the 2006 midterm congressional elections are shaping up to be a major Republican Party setback. Maybe that will kill any thought that a “Harriet Miers Presidency” move-to-the-center is a good idea. It isn’t. Passing this immigration bill is probably a 2006 death wish for at least three or four Republican senators we can identify without thinking too hard.
Mr. Corsi is the author of several books, including "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry" (along with John O'Neill), "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil" (along with Craig R. Smith), and "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians." He is a frequent guest on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show. He will soon co-author a new book with Jim Gilchrist on the Minuteman Project.
The Harriet Miers Nomination was made on October 3, 2005. That was over EIGHT MONTHS after the inaugeration. Eight months is not at all like THREE MONTHS.
If you can't even get simply facts correct, it's hard to take the rest seriously.
Miers wasn't liberal. She was unqualified.
Here's where I am coming from. On that beautiful day in November of 2002, I told my wife, a political newbie, to wait and see what happens. We were so excited because the Republicans had gained 2/3 of all government (federal and local). But since then, they have never taken the fight to the dems. The dems have controlled the fight since and the only ones to stand up half-heartedly have been the reps in the House of Representatives. Bush, being the virtual leader of the party has been asleep at the wheel, always playing some back-door deal until the liberal press calls him on it, and leaving his constituents to constantly defend him. Well, I am fed up with Bush. We need a true conservative with a set of b@11s to stand up and lead! I have been embarrased in front of my more-the-wiser wife. Thanks a lot W.
It may be a while before we understand all the machinations behind the immigration story becoming so big just now, but it looks like a coordinated strategy between the Democrats, the media, and left-wing organizations. At this point it looks like the outcome may be amnesty, millions of more reliable Democrat voters, a deeply divided Republican Party, and new ammunition for the media to use against conservatives. The only hope is that the average American doesn't docilely accept what he's being told by the politicians, the religious leaders, and the media, and actually sorts things out for himself.
You want a president with balls, yet you're embarrassed in front of your wife?
Who has the balls in your family?
Are you calling John Corsi a Dem mouthpiece?
I'm still trying to figure out when Jorge II changed into Jorge I.
Human Events and Jerome Corsi are NOT liberal.
The fact of the matter is, largely contributing to Bush’s poor polling is the base of the Republican Party is really having enough of him and his salivating Bushies excusing and doting with applause his every bad decision, be it from Harriet Miers, to his goofy ecology spin and sell out on domestic oil exploration, his kow-towing to China and Fox, the stupid politically tone-deaf port deal, and six years of total sell out and betrayal of working Americans regarding the illegal alien invasion and his refusal to enforce current laws against law breaking employers who hire illegals, on and on - enough of this because we are tired of the “Viva Bushies” and their stupid “Viva Bush!” bumper stickers. We are being lied to by the Bush Administration in regards to this invasion from South of the Border – the left tells us “Bush Lied, People Died”, but what is really going on around here is we are being told by Bush we need to all wake up and smell the refried beans, the real lie isn’t about Iraq and WMD’s, it’s about this ture numbers regarding this invasion: Bush Lied, Beans Fried.
I'm sorry you can quit wasting our time DUer. You have exposed yourself from day one as a DNC mouthpiece. Anyone stupid enough to argue "ideas over party" as anything but a recipe for complete political irrelevance is either working for the other side or a wholly ignorant of political realities in a Constitutional Republic.
There are not enough people who agree 100% with your ideas to elect a dog catcher. You have to compromise on some things to build a party that can win. The only way to get anything done in life is via compromise. It is utterly childish to demand ONLY 100% of what YOU personally want in politics.
Adults understand this reality, children throw temper tantrums to avoid dealing with it. By spending all your time here advocating the Right commit political suicide, you are either knowingly, or unintentionally, acting as a DNC "Virtual Campaigner" so which is it? Ideological fool or Ideological traitor?
Please tell me you didn't just use a wikipedia as a source.
Be refreshing change if there was some standing to reason among the Freeper Fringers for a change
Cheap shot, and I accept it. I told her to watch and see how great the Republican revolution was going to be, and I was wrong! But, it takes balls to admit to your wife when you have been made a fool, which is what Bush and the spineless Republicans have done for years now. But, fool me once, shame on them. Fool me twice, shame on me. Therefore, the Constitution Party will have my vote (and my wife's) in 2006.
Maybe you feel like a fool because you are one, for expecting Bush to be Torquemada.
You'll vote for some nobody in the Constitution Party, he won't win, the Democrat will, and you'll be right back here, bellyaching.
It's what people like you do.
You are aware of what John Corsi did?
I love Bolton and what he's doing in the UN.
(I also love that we are not under Kyoto or the World Court, also thanks to the President.)
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