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.
In truth, we are a democratic oligarchy. We are ruled by an elite class of (mostly wealthy) career politicians. This is not what was envisioned by our founders but it is most definitely what we have become."
Isn't really isn't a Conservative at all. Don't think your opinion on this issue really matters since you clearly have no interested in limited Govt or the Free market. You simply resent the fact that the Govt is not to impose what you cannot win at the polls.
No it doesn't. You have just actually posted propaganda from the enviro-nazis. The only people that are still saying that are those who want us to get rid of cars.
For the most part, even the oil companies have given up on that old saw...which hasn't been factual for years.
Why waste your votes on the Constitution Party? Go out and get involved in the primaries. That's the most productive thing that you can do.
When you put conservatives on the ballot, their odds of winning are pretty good.
As any real Conservative knows, actions have consequences. Conservatives don't hoist the white flag and run away because things are tough. That ALL you are advocating. Rationalize it, dress it up, spin it, the only outcome your actions have is to elect Democrats.
That makes you Howie Dean's Patsy or Howie Dean's Ally. Which is it?
Well, I don't know who Torquemada is, but I am sure a dork like you does; so I won't try to defend myself on that one. However, it's people "like me" that continually wakes the party back up to return it to its roots so that simple, stupid folks like you can enjoy a conservative, Republican party without knowing why it is that way after all of these years. But, your too stupid to even understand what I just wrote, so your friends can thank me if they want to.
How can you wake up a political party when you cringe in front of your wife because Bush didn't do everything you wanted him to do?
You better go back to ridin' bulls, because I ain't buyin' the bull you're slingin' here.
Ok. I'm very updated on the PreWarDocs.
Maybe you can lend me your thoughts on this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1604529/posts
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>>>Is Bush's Second Term Becoming a 'Harriet Miers Presidency'?<<<
No, a Jimma Carter presidency.
It is people like you with your vitirol and elitism that drives away voters from the GOP. You are the fool.
"Miers wasn't liberal. She was unqualified."
THANK YOU!
Judicial Appointments. 1 seat from Controlling the US Supreme Court for the 1st time since since the 1930s.
Chief Justice Roberts, Asso Justice Alito, Judges Luttig, Pickering and Brown. etc etc etc.
So like I pointed out. This hissy fit is nothing more them the latest 100%er temper tantrum. Nothing in life is perfect. Only children and fools think it can be.
Squeal all you want. The facts don't change just cause you scream louder and longer. Your actions are those of a Howie Deaniac. Knowingly or unwittingly, those are the consequences of your actions.
"Well, I don't know who Torquemada is..."
Torquemada WAS an infamous torturer of the Spanish Inquisition. He did not use "the comfy chair".
You are very very close to trolldom, if not there already. Tread carefully in the disrespect you show those of us who have been here far longer than you have and have an actual record of supporting conservative causes to prove our genuineness and sincerity. You are so eager to hammer the wedge that I am of the mind that your purpose for being here is exactly what you accuse others of being.
"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)"
SwiftVets.com :: View topic - **** Swifts' ~ Transcripts from TV, radio & audio
BLITZER: John O'Neill, I want you to respond. Over the past 24, 48 hours, there have been some serious questions raised about your co- author, Jerry Corsi. They have discovered some comments he's written on various Web sites which appear to be anti-Muslim, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic. I could read some of them, but we don't have a whole lot of time.
I wonder if you want to disassociate yourself from what he has written.
O'NEILL: Oh, absolutely.
Jerry Corsi acted as sort of an editor of our book. And so instead of attacking the facts of the book with all these people who were in Vietnam with John Kerry, 60 of them, the attack is now on this guy who is an editor. His remarks were inappropriate. He shouldn't have made them. He's a devout Catholic, as a matter of fact. But Jerry Corsi was not in Vietnam, doesn't claim to be. He simply helped us in editing the book.
The 60 people who were with Kerry in Vietnam, this is their book.
BLITZER: All right, but he's listed as the co-author of the book, isn't he?
O'NEILL: He is. And he performed in the same way as Douglas Brinkley or anybody else a function in editing, in -- particularly in the second half of the book, in historical research, because he had done a great deal of research on the anti-war movement, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, but not in the Vietnam section of the book.
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:jZJwydNZQY8J:horse.he.net/~swiftpow/phpBB2/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D1726%26postdays%3D0%26postorder%3Dasc%26start%3D0%26sid%3D70b8a96c25e4c634f710f5f961c389d7+%22simply+an+editor+and+not+really+any+sort+of+co-author%22+corsi&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=25&lr=lang_en&client=firefox-a
Corsi's "research" was largely borrowed from posters at FR.
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