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?
I don’t hate Bush. I disagree with him strongly on some things and that’s it. I would like to go fishing with him when his job is over. I can show him how to fly ultralights also. His old dad jumped out of an airplane with Brit Hume.
What I really meant was he was generous with other people’s money. I was tryinng to be PC
The amnesty bill debate should have demonstrated to you that ACU ratings are meaningless and easily manipulated. Many of the architects of the bill actually voted against it.
The bills in the senate are all hammered out by Kennedy, Lott and company. Then they figure out who is going to be the "face" and who is going to be the "heel". Kennedy votes for it and gets kudos from his liberal base and Lott votes against it and it placates his base.
Seriously, it is just like professional wrestling - it's staged, it's theater.
I thought it might be sarcasm, but around here you never know.
This president demands 100% absolutely loyalty from those who work directly for him, yet he show no loyalty to those who made him president.
The Iraq War IS LOST. WE NEED TO ALL STOP PRETENDING OTHERWISE. Our military is nothing more than a mercenary army for the middle east. Been that way since Gulf War I.
This president needs to stop lying about our enemy, as if TERRORISM can be a real enemy.
This president needs to the truth that HIS P.C. war policies are in place so that we can create a New Palestine in the the middle east.
This president and his two or three remaining reporters who support this war need to stop pretending that we are creating a SECULAR DEMOCRACY in Iraq. This is utter B.S. and they know it.
When the hell did Republicans start supporting the notion that our military is to be used for NATION BUILDING?
Thanks for everything George Bush. I’m so glad I voted for you.
I was almost killed by a couple of illegal aliens that ran a red light. No arrests even though their car ended up at a 45 degree angle up a tree. I almost got addicted to opiates because my legs and back hurt really bad.
Now I drive something big. And if they hit that, there will be death for them. And I will drive away feeling good. Because their necks will be broken.
“Are you really this stupid or do you have another agenda?”
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Are you really this miserable to others all the time in real life, or just on the internet where you don’t have the danger of someone coming to your home and cleaning your clock?
I won’t bother answering the rest of your post until and unless you calm down.
BS. The ACU ratings are not meaningless. They are computed on a basket of critical votes. The votes selected fall into three categories: (1)economic and budget matters; (2) social and cultural issues; and (3)defense and foreign policy. Votes are selected on the basis of whether the vote refelcts a "clear ideological distinction among Membes of Congress." As a member of the ACU, I find your claim without substance. The amnesty bill is just one of 25 votes that are used to compute the rating.
Specter's lifetime ACU rating is 45, Imhofe and Coburn 98. Clinton's is 9, Kennedy's 2, and Obama's 8.
Seriously, it is just like professional wrestling - it's staged, it's theater.
Look, I am not a political neophyte. I understand "I voted for it before I voted against it." That said, voting records are indicative of where people stand on the political spectrum. As Sessions said about John Kyl, someone I admire and have always believed was a true conservative (ACU lifetime rating: 97), "I would have signed the immigration reform bill without even reading it if John Kyl was the only one writing it."
I put a lot of time and effort fighting the Senate bill thru my local grassroots organization on immigration reform. To me, the future of this country was on the line with that bill, which would have finished us a nation, at least as we know it. That said, I would rather have John Kyl as my representative than Janet Napolitano.
Illegal aliens have killed more people in the usa than terrorists and cost the hard working US citizens more money. Which is the worse enemy? Which one does Jorje Bush love?
Bush may think his base regards his pissing on them as “Hey, its raining lemonade!”.
But to his pissed on base, its just piss.
Actions have consequences.
>> Conservatives Shouldn’t Abandon Bush
That ain’t right.
Neither Conservatives nor Bush should abandon Conservatism.
Immigration was never an issue and the word should never be used to describe those in this nation illegally and the amnesty plan for them.
Good troll bait thread!
If you understand the first sentence I quoted, then you wouldn't have written the second one. Explain to me how Saxby Chambliss and Johny Isaakson were recorded on the amnesty vote? They were two of the principal architects of the bill and pushed for it hard. They voted against it because their votes wouldn't make a difference so now their ACU ratings will go up.
How about Voinovich who changed his vote after the outcome was known? Another trick is to vote for cloture but then against the bill. That way the senator makes sure the bill gets passed but then can say he tried his hardest to stop it.
Do you think the amnesty debacle was the only time that the senate has decided to do whatever the hell it wanted?
I know the ACU tries to do good work with it's rankings but they are being played as patsies since they are so easily manipulated.
Again, all Kennedy and Lott have to do is hammer out a bill that they know they can get 51 corrupt senators who would not take a political hit at home by voting for it. It's theater.
ROFLOL! Let me get this straight. You joined back up, were an old freeper, and now you want someone to remove you so you can go back where you came from and complain how you were treated because not all people on here are Bushbots but you already knew that when you joined back up on this site? Unbelievable!
Thanks for the laugh of the day!
Very well said and I agree.
Yep, and I have a long memory.
Thanks for the laugh of the day!
It's a real Howler, ain't it...
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