[Christian4Bush]

bump

[Darkwolf377]

I'm so glad FR is actually returning to being a Conservative/Republican site. Articles like this are too rare around here these days.

[bwteim]

And another bump

[zook]

Excellent piece.

[MikeA]

What I do want to argue is that, after Washington and Lincoln, Bush is the bravest of our presidents. He has faced the most intense fire, hatred, contempt, heavily moneyed and bitterly acidic partisan opposition, underhandedness, betrayal, of any president in the last hundred years.

Including now from within his own party from grassroots conservatives caught up in a dangerous and blinding absolutism over immigration. They look only at this one issue and ignore all the other ways in which Bush has advanced their favored agenda and now choose to jump ship on the man. A fair weathered friend in my book is always worse than a consistently hostile adversary. I have no use for the disloyal.

That's not to say it's wrong to disagree with the president. I happen to think he's not been strong enough in vetoing spending or even still done enough to get control of the border. But it's the level of rancor that comes from both the far left and the far right I find so distasteful. I may not see eye to eye with all Bush does, but I'll be damned if I'm going to abandon the man who has done so much to protect the nation and revive its economy and to do so when he most needed my support. Kicking a friend when he's down is just the lowest of low behaviors. I feel we owe him too much as a party and a nation to allow our loyalties to be so fleeting and capricious.

[stopem]

He has faced all the adversity with dignity and leadership yet in a compassionate way. Which are rare qualities for a President. He sticks by his convictions. And I would say he is loyal.
I admire and respect President Bush!!

[loreldan]

Excellent article! I agree.

[Bobbisox]

BUMP! I think his biggest problems are with RINO and weak Republicans in the House and Senate. You go to war with what you have. I am not proud of the congress he has had to work with. However, I am very proud of my President!

[steve-b]

possibly the most dangerous period of international warfare in our national history

Oh, puh-leeze. To compare this bunch of savages with the threat posed by the Nazis and the Communists is so preposterous as to fatally undermine the points the author is attempting to make.

[soupcon]

"In Iraq, civil society, nearly comatose under Saddam Hussein, is today alive and full of vitality."

[avacado]

Good article.

I was once listening to my liberal friends go off on all kinds of conspiracy theories and lies about Bush such as "war for oil," "Bush lied," "money for Halliburton," and all the other moronic droning that the left spews out. When they were finished I explained to them the intelligence from Russia, China, Germany, and the other permanent members of the UNSC detailed Saddam armed with WMD, and further explained to them that Halliburton held no-bid contracts in the Bosnia War under Clinton, and further explained that so far, there is no sign of the USA stealing Iraq's oil.

I then did something they were not expecting. I asked them if they had ever considered that President Bush and Vice President Cheney are honest men who are trying their very hardest to do what is right for this country?

Their jaws dropped and their stares became blank. I ended the discussion right there.

[Rennes Templar]

In contarst to Hitler and the Nazis, we'll never know the tribulation W has saved the world from, if the cancer of Saddams Iraq and collusion by sympathetic countries and the UN had been allowed to continue.

[slowhand520]

I am surprised National Review would publish an article like this. They are usually the first to clamor that the sky is falling. They spend the whole day on their Corner blog parsing CBS and ABC polls that have the president at 29% and predict definite gloom for the GOP. They truly have become defeatist and cowardice in their writing. National Review has become spineless since WFB let go of the reins. This article that Michael Novak has written is common sense.

[TAdams8591]

"But I do not want to argue here the question of his greatness (I have heard voices call him the worst ever)"

The President is neither.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Bump and continued prayers for our C.I.C. for courage, strength and Divine protection, in Jesus' Name.

[SevenMinusOne]

The best CIC this great Country has seen since Lincoln - He serves this nation proud day in and day out.

Those who constantly look to put their personal politics above all else are simply lesser men / women.

It is an honor to have such a man in office as our POTUS.

[Artemis Webb]

Damn straight !

[ZULU]

"What I do want to argue is that, after Washington and Lincoln, Bush is the bravest of our presidents."

I think that after Washington and Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and then Ronald Reagan were the "bravest Presidents".

[Chena]

Spreading a great article with a BUMP! God bless President Bush. :)

[Pippin]

Y'all gotta read this!