Posted on 06/08/2006 5:12:02 AM PDT by FerdieMurphy
As Carole King sang thirty years ago, “It’s too late, Baby.” She was referring to romance, but in this context it is too late for Team Bush to recapture the loyalty of the conservative GOP base.
Immigration/amnesty, Dubai Ports, Harriet Meyers, Katrina, deficits and Iraq have destroyed Mr. Bush’s credibility as president. The new federal effort on gay marriage is as transparent as the dispatching of “less than 5,000 unarmed national guardsmen” to our southern border: a cosmetic ploy in a vain effort to keep the conservatives in line.
This White House just doesn’t get it. Period.
Before - when Bush was in the 50's in all national polls - he could keep the GOP in line; and the GOP was happy to follow because they were winning.
But when your leader plummets to 29% - and is voted in the latest Quinnipiac poll as the worst president since WW II - there is no hope of enforcing party discipline. Thus you see the open defiance in the House on the Bush/Senate/McCain/Kennedy amnesty for illegal immigrants. And you see Speaker Hastert basically tell off the president over the FBI raid of Representative Jefferson’s Capitol Hill office.
The internal state of the Republican Party is one of total turmoil. They are floundering - and do not know what to do to right the ship of state.
So they are - again - trying to federalize a state issue: marriage.
Since when did we conservatives believe the federal government should usurp state’s rights? This is yet another example of the Bush Big Government philosophy changing the basic tenets of the Republican Party. The Bushes - believers in a Big Federal Government - have become the un-conservatives: a huge Department of Education, a bloated and ridiculous Department of Homeland Security, massive deficits, a new ‘entitlement’ - prescription drugs, a never-ending war that has morphed into the dreaded ‘nation-building’ and on and on and on.
After all of that, why would conservatives happily re-join Team Bush just because he mouths a few platitudes about an issue a close friend of his tells Newsweek, “He doesn’t give a s*** about”?
Both George Bushes - father and son - tried to portray themselves as conservatives; both were cynical manipulators who cleverly used symbols - pork rinds, country music, a phony ‘ranch’ with no animals - to hide their Rockefellerism belief in massive federal power, especially when they control that power.
But it is indeed “too late.” GW Bush’s credibility is shot; his power eroded; his ability to influence events virtually gone.
His own arrogance and ignorance caused his downfall. He was too arrogant to listen when warned about the impending fiasco in Iraq; and he was too ignorant - and lazy - to study history to see what lay ahead in a war such as this.
The result?
A presidency deteriorating right before our eyes. Never - even under the inept Carter or the corrupt Nixon - have we seen a self-immolation quite like this. And we still have 2 ½ years to go!
The Republican Party is a mess; the Democrats are horrible and should never be trusted again.
No wonder more and more people are calling for a Third Party. Or, as has been written in this space for more than a year, an Independent Third Candidate who runs against both parties.
That may indeed happen in ‘08. But that is a long, long way away.
First comes a major battle: where is the heart of the Republican Party? Is it for someone like McCain - a Teddy Kennedy in GOP clothing?
Or is there another Ronald Reagan true-blue conservative out there somewhere who wants to re-take our party and put it back on conservative principles?
That is the key question today.
Since when did we conservatives believe the federal government should usurp state’s rights?
Unfortunately, too many conservatives in Washington are willing to usurp state's rights when they don't like what the states are doing.
come to think of it...he does ..
Coincidentally, it was just announced that the price of oil dropped in direct response to the President nailikng Al-Zarqawi.
Don't forget how he subverted the First Amendment by signing a bill he said he didn't think was consitutional - Campaign Finance Reform. He violated the oath he took to "Uphold and defend the Constitution" when he did this. He lost my support from that point forward.
Where's Osama?
From your lips to our ears!
Me too!
RE: your #26: we're exactly in agreement!
Right. We had eight agonizing years of that with the Dynamic Clinton Duo.
Which reminds me. This month is the month that Monica Lewinski turns 31.
It just seems like yesterday she was crawling around the White House on her hands and knees.
Please. If he does, than 90% of this country does. He's a very average human being who became President because he was fortunate enough to be born into a rich and powerful family . . . and he certainly doesn't "have what it takes" to lead the country. He has been a disaster as a President.
I believe he was sitting at his desk with his pants unzipped.
Meanwhile, under the desk was a thong-wearing little fatso....
BRILLIANT gambit to deflect attention from the Mexican border..
Simply.. BRILLIANT.. Probably will work too..
But not with the base.. Diversions from the real war are becoming NOTICED..
"The Mexican border INSURGENCY...
i.e. changing the voting demographics of the United States for the foreseeable future is the PLAN..
They are, to put it mildly, whimpering, snorting hogs.
CT has the best pizza in the country! Pepe's, Sally's . . . I sometimes find an excuse to fly to CT just for the pizza!
I see. So he is blamed for the hurricanes, for anything that someone can find a finger to point blame with, but when something like this occurs, he had nothing to do with it?
You make an ass of yourself with your words.
Does your mother know you're using her computer?
Baloney. Bush is not up for election. But, House and one third of the Senators are. The choices are simple. Elect Republicans because no Dem can be trusted to keep our national security.
LOL. Do you guys understand that there is no, none, nada, zip difference between your stupid remarks and the left wing loons on CSPAN?
A very simple illustration of profound ignorance. Thank you for your contribution.
"He's a freakin' liberal as far as domestic policy is concerned."
I would say that Bush is a lib with spending and certain issues but he is still mostly socially conservative as in guns - AWB is now gone, gay marriage and a few others. Domestically he has also reduced taxes
i look at it as a mixed bag
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