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.
BRAVA! :-)
But apparently he'd have to be God himself in his omniscience to be appreciated by the "yeah, but" conservatives among us.
I honestly believe that if Jesus were among us today, the my-way-or-the-highway crowd would be the modern equivalent of the Pharisees. It's ironic that in its Hebrew form, Pharisee means separatists, or the separated ones.
(BTW, for those who insist on finding reasons to quarrel, no, I am not comparing President Bush to Jesus.)
Bravo STARWISE, BRAVO!
EXCELLENT POST!