Exactly what part of "... to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" confuses you?
Posted on 07/13/2007 5:15:02 AM PDT by Kaslin
Watching a steady stream of Democrats like Harry Reid, Dick Durbin, and Chuck Schumer each take their turn delightedly pummeling President Bush over the war in Iraq today, I couldn’t help but think of fellow conservatives who are starting to give aid and comfort to these Democrat Party loyal oppositionists.
According to Byron York of the National Review, the Republican Party base has simply decided to throw Mr. Bush under the wheels of the bus. Since so many of us disagree with him on things like illegal immigration and Scooter Libby, York opines that a whole bunch of Republican loyalists are practically counting the days until Jan. 20, 2009, when a new commander-in-chief takes up residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Other conservative voices are jumping on the Bush-bashing bandwagon. The other night on Fox News, I saw a radio host proclaim that the president’s soft stance on illegals has cost him support for the war in Iraq.
Just what, precisely, is the point?
Why do conservatives believe that trashing the Bush Administration’s efforts on everything from this complicated war to a commutation of a vice-presidential aide will accomplish anything but give Democrats more ammunition against the GOP in 2008
Look, I’m as disappointed in this administration’s attempted amnesty for illegals as anyone. But I looked President Bush in the eye in the Oval Office and saw a man who truly believes in his heart that giving illegals a “path to citizenship” is the right thing to do.
I believe he’s wrong. But I know that this good and decent man believes he’s right.
So because of this issue, I’m supposed to abandon my president?
I’m expected to go on radio and TV and give miserable attack dogs like Dick Durbin more ways to say, “See -- even Republican supporters of Bush are defecting!”?
From the day the bombs started dropping on Baghdad, President Bush kept telling us that nothing about this war would be easy. Our nation has never attempted something as bold as installing democracy in this troubled part of the world and attempting to make a country like Iraq stable enough so that they can handle their own terrorists without our intervention.
Simply put, the vast majority of Americans supported our country’s pre-emptive strike. The longer this battle rages, the more we see impatient Americans start complaining. I guess that’s what a society in a Tivo/Iphone era does.
And I certainly expect that from Democrats who blame George W. Bush for everything from hurricanes to health care.
But I think it takes some guts to stand behind a president who is doing what he believes to be right, even in the face of enormous opposition.
Liberals are emboldened by Republican-fueled criticism. And if good folks like Byron York aren’t careful, we’ll be handing over the White House on a silver platter to Hillary or Barack. After all, just how far can Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney or Fred Thompson distance themselves from the Bush Administration?
Liberals are emboldened by Republican-fueled criticism. And if good folks like Byron York aren’t careful, we’ll be handing over the White House on a silver platter to Hillary or Barack. After all, just how far can Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney or Fred Thompson distance themselves from the Bush Administration?
Besides, who really wants to be on the same side of the political fence as Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy…or Betty Williams?
Betty Williams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976 for creating a group that helped initiate peace talks in Northern Ireland. This week, she was the keynote speaker at The International Women’s Peace Conference in Dallas. According to the Dallas Morning News, during her speech she told the thousand or so attendees, “Right now, I could kill George Bush.” The paper said she went on to demand his impeachment since “the Muslim world right now is suffering beyond belief” as a result of this administration’s foreign policy.
What a woman of peace. That’s some “peace conference.”
I’m not sure what would happen if an American traveled to Northern Ireland and expressed a desire to kill Mary McAleese, the current President of Ireland. I doubt that such an opinion would be met with cheers and a standing ovation, as was reported had occurred when the Nobel laureate said what she said in Dallas.
And when we tracked Betty Williams down and put her on my radio show, I was shocked to hear her claim that any published report that quoted her as saying, “Right now, I could kill George Bush” was lying. I reminded her that according to numerous published reports, she used the exact same phrase in a July 24, 2006 speech to schoolchildren at the Brisbane City Hall. At that point in the interview, she sounded totally defeated and said she not only “regretted” saying it, when I asked her if she was sorry for saying it, she said she was. In fact, the Dallas Morning News sent me the audio of the speech which confirms their reporting of Ms. Williams comments about the president.
You can hear my interview with this awful woman at www.mikeonline.com.
People like Betty Williams and Michael Moore and Nancy Pelosi and Keith Olbermann and so many others on the left have made it quite clear what they think of George W. Bush. They teem with hatred and contempt.
They sure don’t need to get any assistance from us. Now, more than ever, we ought to stand behind President Bush.
But if people on the left OR right don’t want to support him these days, I have a heartfelt reminder: November of 2008 will be here soon enough.
Until then, how about getting off the president’s back?
Bush abandoned the Conservative base that elected him twice to the presidency.
Yeah,! When the president was first elected to office and, he did not clean house with the Clinton era, we should have had a hint to what was in store far conservatives.
If this wasn’t bad enough, he (president), had to go to bed with Kennedy, “the swimmer”!!!
That’s what you must conclude for your statement to make any sense.
It seems that is what you've concluded for me.
You took a quote that is often used by liberals to claim why they don’t support the war on terror and to explain why they hate Bush.
I was not aware of that. Got link?
It’s a pre 9/11 mentality.
And here I was thinking nation bulilding was a bad idea no matter the time or place...
I’m not going to waste my time finding you the specific statutes, we all know Bush’s administration is choosing not to enforce immigration law.
Hell one need only look at that illegal trash hiding in a church in Chicago who is ignoring a deportation order with impunity.
Exactly what part of "... to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" confuses you?
And their mission.
I must not have been listening when he promised to grant amnesty to 20-30 million criminal invaders and allow millions more to walk in at will. Does anyone here besides you and Laurie D remember him making that promise? Because if you did you're correct, he has certainly done his best to keep it.
Adios and don’t let the door hit you on the way out. OBTW many if not most of us here have worn the uniform of this great country.
I guess that helps to explain why we have so many RINOs. Quite a few people don't pay attention and vote straight ticket no matter what sort of liberal fool they are putting into office.
I cannot stand phonies.
And either those of you here with internet longevity are the biggest phonies on earth or you’re DUmmie plants.
And you just know that you hate Bush.
You don’t know why.
Just like the liberals you are.
REAL Americans don’t abandon a President just because the media tells them to.
I’m ashamed that most of you are Americans.
You didn't ask me, but if I may:
GWB has not changed, and many of us tried to warn the Bush supporters, but to no avail.
IMO, it was a case of a politician fooling the voters.
Now the voters are waking up.
A “good and decent” man would DO HIS JOB, no matter how he felt about it. He has done everything possible to make sure that law enforcement efforts were unsuccessful.
He has done NOTHING to rid the country of illegals, he has had less worksite enforcement than Clinton, he forced the Border Patrol to stop highly successful interior operations, he is trying to destroy the United States constitution by merging us into a “political, social, and economic entity” with Canada and Mexico, and he had the NERVE to say that *I* don’t want what’s best for the country.
He has NO RIGHT to destroy the United States, he is NOT a monarch. He wants to guard MEXICO’S borders, instead of ours!!
He broke his Presidential oath. Period.
Uh huh.
You wear the uniform and yet you align yourselves with people who claim that the Commander in Chief should be ‘impeached’ and that he’s not really engaged in this battle until he sends his daughters to fight.
So, WHICH uniform did you wear, again?
Phonies.
Hi Howlin
Most of you don’t deserve the title you’re given by birth, Americans.
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. FYI: I served my country in the military during a war as well as in other difficult, life-threatening circumstances in other official USG capacities. What have you done for your country that gives the right to decide who deserves the "title" of American? A pox on you.
LOL!!!!!!!!
Cognitive dissonance gets tougher when the world around you agrees more and more with the little voice in your head.
People have tried, civilly, to answer your questions. Yet you name call and provide tirade instead of civil discourse over disagreements.
You are either a Harpy or a troll.
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