In the meantime, let us 'Bots enjoy the present administration while we can:
BTTT !!!!!!!!!!
Upon reading my post, I saw it contained a far more sarcastic tone than I intended. I meant no offense, and gave it. I should have quit after comparing the media and social treatment of the Nixon and Reagan presidencies with our current president.
Those of you who support the president, please forgive my misguided sarcasm, and please accept my apology.
Your favorite blogger does not frequent FR or else he/she would have written:
The far-right gwwwwarks like a cracker-obsessed parrot: IT'S BUSH'S FAULT
I guess the fact that GW Bush has done so many fine things just makes it all the harder to understand why he would join the Democrats and some liberal Republicans in selling our country down the drain on immigration.
It's a little like finding out your favorite uncle, who you admired and respected and even thought was a hero out campaigning ardently for Ted Kennedy.
Certainly there are many admirable qualities in our President. But what does all this have to do with the fact that he is so wrong on protecting our borders and giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens? Bush is not a child. He has chosen the wrong path on a major issue. Are we all supposed to shut up and speak fondly of past memories and avoid mentioning the elephant in the middle of the room?
The issue is not whether or not Bush's feelings are hurt. The issue is what his pushing amnesty is doing to our country.
This is a great post..Thank you!
This is a great article. Thanks for posting it M. Thatcher.
Many people will say yes,BUT......To these ,I say this man has given us not only much better than what we would have gotten from Gore and Kerry,but much more than we would have gotten from McCain, Bauer,Forbes,Hatch,Alexander,E.Dole,Kasich or Quayle.[Yes ..those were our choices]
I will never agree 100% with any candidate.The only one I agree with that much is myself.
But to all you short sighted,I want everything,NOW crowd.An election is a choice between people.We got very lucky with the person we elected.
He has delivered in spades
We have gotten more from this president for the conservative cause than we could have expected.
He started during a recession,He had to deal with festering world problems avoided by his predecessor.He suffered through the greatest attack against our Nation's soil.He governed during the worst weather calamity to hit our country in modern times.He has been served by a hostile CIA.He has had to govern with a "supposed" majority in each House.[we know how the Rhinos have been barely more than an opposition controlled Congress and Senate]He DARED to try and attack tough long term problems like Social Security,The United Nations,Medicare,modernizing the Military,[with little help from his "conservative base"]
This MAN has stood and delivered.
And we belittle him because he didn't give of us all that we individually wanted.
I made my choice both elections,just expecting decency,honesty, and the best person available to us.I got much more than I expected.I refuse to cry over some of the "things" I didn't receive.
I will push in the next election for the person that offers the most of what I believe in.
I will pray that next President gives me HALF as much as I received from President Bush.
Excellent discourse, thanks for posting it.
I loved and admired Ronald Reagan, and he didn't have a 24-hr. news cycle, dozens of emboldened press and vengeful government and ex-government "actors," a devastating attack on the homeland and ongoing terror, the churning internet and bloggers, and the instant availability of opinion of every stripe.
This man is a perpetual target ..verbally, politically and physically (he WAS the subject of a blatant grenade attack on his visit to Tblisi), yet he listens to the morning threat matrix that would probably make us shrivel up in a corner, puts on his Kevlar vest, takes a stand and makes tough decisions, faces personal risk, rises above the fray and despicable personal crucifixion every day from his political and foreign foes (and now, unbelievably, his "own team") with optimism, good will and humor, and has more personal strength, grace under pressure, integrity and decency than all the swarming naysayers put together.
He lives his upbringing, faith and goodness, and it shows in all his dealings. But apparently he'd have to be God himself in his omniscience to be appreciated by the "yeah, but" conservatives among us. Too bad no one warned him in 2000 that he'd have to be a perfect quarterback in order to count on support and loyalty from his own team.
I never dreamt we would ever be in the world we have today since 9/11, and I'll never stop being eternally grateful that George W. Bush is our President in these times.
I shudder to think how much more hellishly worse we'd be had his opponents (in either election) won. God bless and protect President George Bush !!! I stand with him today, I'll stand with him until the last day, I'll thank God for time we've had him in the White House, and I'll deeply mourn the day he leaves. No one man is perfect, but no one man could've been more perfectly placed at the time he was most needed than he.
From the linked site on another post
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Losing, to win” - pretty shortsighted UPDATED
Filed under: Dumb GOP moves, America
"Jim Geraghty has a great response to Mark Tapscott’s unappealing idea that conservatives should desire a loss in ‘06 in order to “win” in ‘08.
Mr. Tapscott is a brilliant man, but honestly, when I read his piece, I thought: Lala land. He’s not taking into account the fact that the press will credit all of Bush’s successes to the Democrats and spend two years throwing confetti to tell the American public how great everything is.
And in those two years I wonder what sort of legislation we’ll get? Higher taxes? Fairness Doctrine? Regulation of blogs and free speech? How much backtracking will there be, undoing the good work of the last 6 years? And how greatly will our civil rights erode?
Geraghty says it better than I:
We can strongly suspect that voters would be repulsed by Speaker Pelosi and a Kos-style legislative agenda. But we don’t know for certain. Remember that a Democrat-controlled Congress is also likely to be getting astonishingly glowing press coverage.
You know that roaring economy? You’ll start hearing about it, and it will all be credited to the Pelosi-Reid Economic Stimulus Bill passed in January 2007.
Congressional hearings accusing oil companies of “illegal profits” will be welcomed by consumers frustrated by high gas prices. Bush’s approval rating will take another hit after he vetoes the “Every Voter Gets Free Health Care And Free Prescription Drugs And Rent Or Mortgage Subsidies And A Pony Too Act of 2007.”
Senator John Kerry’s summit meeting with French President Jacques Chirac will be credited with dramatically reducing anti-Americanism around the world. And so on.
Maybe the public will strongly oppose the Democratic agenda after two years. But then again, maybe they’ll like it, or find parts of it they do like, or maybe they’ll just get used to them. The “let’s lose this year” strategy hands a bunch of Democrats the handy tool of incumbency to keep those seats.
And in the Senate races, the candidates get to keep their seats until 2012.
dont count me in the "Bush can do no wrong" crowd. I regret voting for the man. BTW, we didnt abandon HIM...he abandoned conservatism
This just hits so many points dead-on, particularly the Meiers issue. No, I wasn't a fan of hers, but that was really the fork in the road, where as the writer points out the folks who like Bush when he picks "one of ours" took the turn-off. There were so many postings then that picked-and-chose bits from her record, something which could have been done to prove ANY conservative wasn't 100% on the same page with us, that I kept wondering "I don't care for this person much, but I don't get this picayune crap."
From that point, when Bush asked us to take him on faith for the first time--WE failed HIM.
I'd comment on the current big issue but I simply don't want to deal with 100 stupid "Bush is a traitor" posts.
Thank you for posting this.
A keeper. Thanks!
Thanks.
Ask your favorite blogger if they were surprised when he refered to the Minute Men as vigilantes?
I have made some life long friends from folks I have met here at FR. I know their kids, I know their Moms. Real folks I hang out with in real life.
None of them are exactly like me. No one is.
On political issues, even immigration, we have our differences. But, we have enough common ground that we stick together.
I have no problem with anyone having disagreements with some of the policies of President Bush and their other elected representatives. There are, though, reasonable ways to express those differences.
By design, American politics do not turn on a dime. Change is slow, difficult and requires a lot of hard work. We have the government we the people elected. We can change it, just not tomorrow.
With President Bush, as with those I choose to share my life with, I celebrate what we have in common.