GFY Sam, your worship of GWB is exactly what is wrong with conservatism in this country. I voted for that now-revealed RINO three times, in the 2000 primaries, and in the general elections of 2000 and 2004.
This isn’t about ‘kicking Bush when he’s down’, Bush put HIMSELF down, by losing whatever vision he had, making common cause with the likes of Teddy Kennedy, and allowing himself to be diverted from his job responsibilities which is to ‘protect and defend’ the Constitution of the United States. His abysmal failure to secure our southern border, his naive and childish characterization of Islam as a ‘religion of peace’, toadying up to Muslims and showing weakness, not strength, and p*ssing all over the people who helped put him IN the damn White House, is why he finds himself a lonely man at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
And wise up smart ass, I have never claimed to be perfect, but I don’t have to be perfect to recognize that George W. Bush is on the wrong path, that despite his words about not cutting and running, about not allowing terrorism to claim Iraq, about not allowing Iran to go nuclear, about not allowing North Korea to go nuclear, etc., the only theatre of operations where he seems to be hanging on is in Iraq.
Try taking a look around and ask yourself what is wrong with the picture when a Democratic Senator (Joe Lieberman) is calling for military force to be used against Iran, and our own Commander-In-Chief is dragging his heels?
And let’s not forget that damnable ‘Two State Solution’ that the Bush Administration has been ramming down Israel’s throat, should that ever come to pass, the only lasting legacy will be a further ramping up of terrorist strikes against our only real ally in the Middle East. Bush will end up doing to Israel what Jimmy Carter did to our former ally Iran, when the Shah was still in power.
Your problem Sam, is that your own kneejerk support of George W. Bush has blinded you to the fact that many of the policies of our President can no longer be supported by any true conservative. Take your pick: CFR, NCLB, Failure to secure our borders, the recently attempted amnesty debacle, letting Scooter Libby twist in the wind and then issuing only a half-measure ‘commutation’ when he should have been firing Fitzfong and directing his alleged Attorney General Alberto VO5 to go after that scumbag Armitage who was the REAL source of the Plame ‘leak’. The list goes on and on.
I voted for, and I supported, and I will continue to support our President WHEN his positions are not in conflict with the Constitution, and are not detrimental to America’s national security, despite his claims to be so very much ‘aware’ of his job to ‘protect the American people’.
You apparently voted for the man, and that’s all you can see, true myopia in action.
Try educating yourself and have yourself a stiff cup of reality why don’t you?
I assume you mean "Good For You, Sam....."
I don't worship Bush. But I don't worship myself as a know-it-all, either.
I see clearly that the President had choices between bad and worse, given to him by a corrupt, broken government bureaucratic intelligence structure and state dept infrastructure that is completely unreformable, IMO.
I am not ashamed to say that I don't think I could do a better job of making the decisions he has made about what to do vis-a-vis the "axis of evil."
Unlike you, I don't even think there was a set of decisions that could be made back then, now with 100% hindsight that would put us in a better position today.
That's not worship, that's being smart enough to know I'm not omniscient.