Peggy Noonan and The WSJ Editorial - It's Time to Revolt!

Red State ^ | June 1, 2007

[Clintonfatigued]

However, now I do not feel alone. Peggy Noonan has a new column up in the Wall Street Journal Opinion Journal. She has clearly said what has been getting me down. I think I knew what was up, but couldn't put a finger on it. I knew it centered around the immigration debate, and the way our congressional leaders are behaving. That sentiment especially includes Mr. Bush too, but when I read this column, I felt like Charlie Brown yelling at Lucy at her Psychology booth when he yells, "That's it!" when trying to identify why he can't get into the Christmas spirit.

Try this clip on for size :

The White House doesn't need its traditional supporters anymore, because its problems are way beyond being solved by the base. And the people in the administration don't even much like the base. Desperate straits have left them liberated, and they are acting out their disdain. Leading Democrats often think their base is slightly mad but at least their heart is in the right place. This White House thinks its base is stupid and that its heart is in the wrong place.

For almost three years, arguably longer, conservative Bush supporters have felt like sufferers of battered wife syndrome. You don't like endless gushing spending, the kind that assumes a high and unstoppable affluence will always exist, and the tax receipts will always flow in? Too bad! You don't like expanding governmental authority and power? Too bad. You think the war was wrong or is wrong? Too bad.

But on immigration it has changed from "Too bad" to "You're bad."

The president has taken to suggesting that opponents of his immigration bill are unpatriotic--they "don't want to do what's right for America." His ally Sen. Lindsey Graham has said,

[WalterSkinner]

The Democrats must be in hog heaven

..oh I hope so. I really hope they underestimate the power of a revived and angry conservative movement...

[TomGuy]

Then think of staying home next November.

If you vote for the same, don't expect a different result.

If the GOP continues to put up big-business globalist candidates, and if the loyalists continue to vote for them, they can't call the elected RINOs.

None of the so-called RINOs got to their positions by default -- they got elected. They got elected because the other loyalists keep saying VOTE R - any R is better than a D.

Well, we see that isn't true.

If the GOP continues to put up the level of candidates they have in the last decade, the voters have little choice -- stay home or vote for a 3rd party. That and financial contributions are the only tools the voters really have.

Because, if you elect a globalist R, don't expect him to suddenly turn into a conservative.

That being said, I sincerely hope those jumping on the FThompson bandwagon look close at his record. I don't see the staunch conservative others do. I see a moderate who leans toward the globalist agenda. I think too many are projected what they want Thompson to be, not what he actually is.

[Gideon Reader]

It’s GOOD to be the King.

[GinaLolaB]

The Republican Party is the Titanic and it has hit a bush-berg and Bush has thrown us an anchor and he has turned off the pumps.

[FreedomPoster]

While I generally agree with the concept you push, more and more, GWB is revealed as “not a conservative”.

[BurtSB]

You have said it all.
I wish they would just leave now before they do anymore damage.

[Paperdoll]

>I want to know if Fred is going to be with us or not.<

Check out Immigration Profile of Sen. Fred Thompson and decide for yourself.

[jveritas]

You people who hate the President are going to twist his words even if he says Hello. Here comes Laura Ingraham made a stupid lie on Foxnews and accused the President of questioning "our" patriotism, and now come the people on our side who hate the President and they are singing this lie and repeating it.

[kevao]

And you equate this as being called "UNPATRIOTIC"???!!!

Again, I ask you, who, other than an unpatriotic American, does not want "to do what's right for America"?

[Gondring]

To think of all those Sore-Loserman signs I printed out and painstakingly taped together. Well, at least next time I can get a Z-visa holder to do the drugergy for me.

LMHO!!

But :-/

[jveritas]

This is difference of opinion he is referring too, and not saying that you are UNPATRIOTIC! It is unreal what is going on with you Bush haters, just unreal.

[ckilmer]

“Where in the hell was Newt when he had control of a conservative House? It was not a priority for him!!!! Why is Newt getting a pass? Congress in 2002 to 2006 could have sent an immigration bill to GW to sign that included border enforcement first with a fence, punishing employers severely and than somehow dealing with the illegals here. They did not.”

Ummm, perhaps because Newt had left office in 2002?
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Newt left the congress in 1998 after completing the contract with america.

[WalterSkinner]

I think too many are projected what they want Thompson to be, not what he actually is

..good point TomGuy

On the other end of the political spectrum, there were a lot of people who did the same thing to Rudy--created a candidate in their mind with total disregard for the record.

Having said that, FDT is still a lot better choice than any of the 3 so-called "Frontrunners" IMHO...

[PeterFinn]

When did the President call you UNPATRIOTIC. Here. This is where. Now WAKE UP and PAY ATTENTION. Geez. http://www.dailynewstribune.com/opinion/x537528480

[Gondring]

This White House thinks its base is stupid and that its heart is in the wrong place.

I disagree. They haven't had a bad thing to say about illegal immigrants.

[org.whodat]

And this bill, passed under Dems that the “conservative base” helped elect,

What kind of glue are you smelling??

There is no passed bill.

And also the california dingbat told jorge she would need him to deliver about 70 rino,s for her to bring it up.

Keep up.

[PeterFinn]

Excerpt from http://www.dailynewstribune.com/opinion/x537528480

McFeatters: Bush and Kennedy - friends at last

WASHINGTON - President Bush had had enough. His last chance at another legacy legislative achievement, immigration reform, was in peril, and from his own people, conservative Republicans. He wasn't going to take it any more.

At a training school for border agents, the president ripped into his own people for opposing his bill. Bush did so indirectly, so a guided tour through the speech may be in order.

The opponents, he said, "haven't read the bill," a polite way of saying they're ignorant.

They are opposing it with "empty political rhetoric." They're vacuous, too.

They worry the bill "would make somebody else look good." They're selfish.

They call it an amnesty bill. "That's empty political rhetoric, trying to frighten our fellow citizens." And they lie.

They "need the courage to go back to their districts" and fully explain the bill and then they need "the courage necessary" to enact it. They're more than likely cowards as well.

OK, vote against it then "if you don't want to do what's right for America." They want al Qaeda to win.

He accused opponents of immigration reform of using distortion and scare tactics "to frighten our citizens." That's exactly what the Democrats accused Bush of doing in 2004 and 2006 but, hey, it worked for him then and it might work for him now.

[jveritas]

Stop distorting what the President says, stop lying, stop being so hyper sensitive like a PC liberal, and stop your hate for President Bush. Hate is going to destroy you, it is already destroying. Hate has blinded you heart, your soul, and your mind and you cannot think straight, you cannot talk straight, and cannot write straight. You hate the President so much that if says Hello you are going to say he saying evil stuff about us.

Shame on you Bush haters, shame on you.

[PeterFinn]

LOL!

[PghBaldy]

I have supported this President since the election of 2000. The funny thing is, I voted for Gore! I was a liberal then,. but Gore’s not conceding angered me to no end. I decided to give Bush the benefit of the doubt. My anger at my party (Dems) increased during the Inaugural, when they protested. After 9/11, I decided to give Bush my support, as I felt he was doing a great job, under terrible circumstances.

I voted for him in 2004, and wore buttons and t-shirts daily. I was shocked by the visceral hatred of the left and supported Bush even more, even when increasingly he let me down. I now just wish he could try talking TO us and not AT us. I guess I am a Bush Democrat, and have gotten more and more conservative as the Republicans have gotten more and more liberal. It really is bizarro world. Now, I cringe when he discusses immigration. I am sick of Spanish everywhere, and criminals marching by the thousands demanding things I don’t even have (amnesty for crime). It would be better if he stopped talking about immigration. He just upsets the base more with his arrogant smears.