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I have nothing against Christians, but I am not one myself, so it neither impresses nor shames me that he prays, if that's what you were hoping for. This whole thread started with an essay that ended with the statement that Bush is Christian first, president second, and conservative third. Well, I could have told you that, and that is where our paths diverge.

Bush is conservative only insofar as conservative theory is compatible with his particular Christian beliefs. If he considers it to be a Christian duty to feed, heal, and education half the world on taxpayer money, he'll abandon conservatism in a trice, as we've seen. And you are fine with that because you are ALSO Christian first, conservative second (which is why it is so ironic when you start going on about pseudo-conservatives.)

Those of us on Free Republic who admire Bush for certain things but disagree with him on others are most often conservative first and that is simply that.

The point was not that you would be impressed, nor shamed by his being a man of prayer, but that you would recognize that your ridicule of him, and of those of us who respect him, would be seen for what it is..........wrongly based on your mistaken notion that respect equals worship.

None of us agrees with him on everything........the very point made in this article. But some of us choose to continue to support him, and the office he holds, in spite of differences. The degrees vary, but what we all agree on, is that leadership is not about doing what WE want, but doing what he thinks best for the country as a whole.

And on that, President Bush has been completely consistent from Day One.