We Need Bush's Courage Now More Than Ever

Jewish Press ^ | 1-5-09 | Ed Koch

[SJackson]

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[zook]

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. You're a great American!

[OldFriend]

If only there were more people willing to stand up and be counted in the President's corner.

We are not at a crossroads because the President is still in charge, but it's a pity that we have added to his burden by allowing the left to take over. I should say, the America hating left.

[areafiftyone]

Koch is one of the few honest Democrats around.

[jveritas]

We Need Bush's Courage Now More Than Ever

AMEN.

[My2Cents]

The enormous defeat President Bush suffered with the loss of both Houses of Congress has not caused him to retreat from his position that the U.S. alone now stands between a radical Islamic takeover of many of the world’s governments in the next 30 or more years. If that takeover occurs, we will suffer an enslavement that will threaten our personal freedoms and take much of the world back into the Dark Ages.

That's pretty much my take on all of this. And Ed Koch is one of my heroes because he's put partisanship aside in order to unite behind the President on the bigger issue of the survival of our civilization. Sadly, I can count other influential Democrats who hold this perspective on one finger. Now that the US government is divided, and the Democrats are opting for civilizational suicide, the American voters have set up a situation that parallels our disasterous endgame in Vietnam. I don't see things as having a loss of will in Iraq, but having a loss of will to defend our civilization. Political correctness has mostly blinded America to the threat, and our apparent moral exhaustion has sapped us of the strength to stand against a radical Islam on the march. It's ironic that we went into Iraq to depose a dangerous threat to the Middle East and to western nations, to set up a free and democratic society in Iraq to stand as a viable alternative to the nihilism of the Islamists, and yet here in America, we don't seem to have the vision or moral strength to make ourselves as a viable alternative to Islamic nihilism.

[Syberyenta]

Ed Koch nails it again. Thanks YerHonor.

[Irish Eyes]

Thank you Ed Koch. I can not believe that there have been so few speaking out like this.

[familyop]

"...asserting that the Saudis were prepared in the event of an American pullout to engage in a 'massive intervention to stop Iranian-backed Shiite militias from butchering Iraqi Sunnis.' Obaid went on 'suggest[ing] that Saudi Arabia could cut world oil prices in half … a move that would be devastating to Iran.'"

Then the anti-defense Fairy will stop us evil neo-cons from starting all the wars, and we'll all live happily ever after, will cheap oil, for ever and ever.

LOL! Koch did pour a lot of sugar on that one.

[CyberAnt]

Well .. I hope he finds it again. It's been sorely missing - at least for my money.

I liked the cowboy better.

[Howlin]

I will stand with him.

[onedoug]

This from same Ed Koch who called Dennis Prager "hypocrite" because Prager wanted Keith Ellison to at least have a Bible on hand while he took his (ceremonioal) oath of office to Congress on the quran (lower case intended).

[A Citizen Reporter]

I have never stopped standing with the President.

I wish a few more of our Congressional Republicans could say the same thing. As one example, Voinovich comes to mind.

It's roll call time again, and I'm paying attention.

[Peach]

I stand with him too.

But I will say this -- one of the reasons why we're where we are today is because both the administration and the Republicans were unwilling to stand up to the leftist's lies.

They let the left lie with impunity and people started to believe those lies and, in fact, it emboldened the Democrats to tell even more outrageous lies.

I know the president wanted to change politics of personal destruction in DC, but it didn't work, I knew it wouldn't work, and letting the ugly Democrats get away with what they were permitted to get away with just made it worse.

For instance, when the left said that AQ did not have a relationship with Saddam, that was provably untrue. All the president had to say was that Clinton's federal indictment of OBL mentions that relationship. That's it. And he didn't do it and it was a mistake not to do it.

It never, ever works to let an opponent, especially American-hating, military-hating, jihadist-supporting opponents, get away with lying. I've never understood why Republicans didn't have the courage of their convictions and why they thought that letting lie after lie after lie stand as truth was a good tactic, and I'll go to my grave not understanding it.

[ohioWfan]

I agree, Peach, but the President has convictions that he will not back down from, and one of them is that the office of the Presidency is above partisanship.

It is the Republican party that is to blame for not fighting the fight against the left.

They never stood up against leftist lies in support of the War in Iraq, leaving the President to stand alone in support of our troops.

I will have a very hard time forgiving them for their cowardice, and their role in handing the country over to evil.

[2rightsleftcoast]

I completely agree. The President is attacked every single day in every media outlet. It is beyond disgusting.
Not once, before or after the election have I heard His Party members on the Hill come out and defend him. I have lost so much respect for them as men. I believe we would have won the election if some of them had come out and spoke about what a good man the President is. But if a man is more concerned with being elected than showing true courage then it must be hard to look in the mirror now that the Dems are in power.

[ohioWfan]

Exactly.

I haven't heard any Republican stand up for the President either..........not one.

Not only does he have to stand up against an enemy in Congress and in the media, but he has to do it alone.

I'm not sure I will ever regain my respect for the Republican party.

[Nancee]

BUMP!!!

[livius]

Great article! I lived in NYC when Ed Koch was mayor - he did the best he could, but being a Dem, he never made much progresss, so I'm sure he knows very well what it's like to be abandoned by your party. When Giuliani took over, the Dems hated him, but he didn't owe them anything so he could go ahead and do what he did.

I think Koch is right and I think the way the GOP has abandoned Bush is disgraceful. He's not perfect, but nobody is - however, he's about 100% to the tenth power better than any Dem.