Posted on 12/20/2007 3:43:24 PM PST by Romneyfor President2008
For the past year, Republican presidential candidates have kept a distance from their politically hobbled leader, criticizing President Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina, his immigration overhaul, his spending habits, his democracy promotion agenda and, at times, his leadership in Iraq. They wrapped themselves instead in the mantle of Ronald Reagan, often going through debates without mentioning the name of their incumbent president.
Now comes former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney voicing something not heard before in the campaign -- a full-throated defense of the president. Ever since last weekend, when former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee published a scathing critique of what he called Bush's "arrogant bunker mentality" when it comes to foreign policy, Romney has jumped all over his chief rival in the Iowa caucuses by backing up the president.
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I believe Thompson and Guliani are defenders of President Bush. So is McCain, some times.
Bush has a base?
I guess he’s going for all 12 bots left on the ‘daily dose’ thread.
He sure does.
You don’t deserve a President the caliber of George Bush.
Does that mean we can expect Romney to continue Bush's agenda of artificially depressing the wages of the American worker by importing cheap labor?
“You don’t deserve a President the caliber of George Bush.”
You’re right. We all deserve better. Maybe next time!
And amnesty for illegals
You’re gonna have a lot of whining to do to former Bush supporters on this thread!
I have the feeling it’s going to be a real lonely thread for you.
I predict 5 posts before you descend to calling us bashers who “never supported him to begin with,” which while being a flat out untruth, will give you the level of self-satisfaction you’re looking for.
“Spin it however you want to, you know what I mean.”
Of course I do. You worship the man and therefore he is beyond criticism in your myopic eyes.
Right...former Bush supporters. LOL. If you supported GWB to start with, you still support him, because he’s done what he has said he would do.
I know a lot of people don’t like that. Too bad.
Wrong. He just hasn't done anything for me to criticize him over. I might have done it differently, but I don't have his perspective.
That's not worship, that's respect. I remember when people generally had it for a President (pre-Nixon days).
Does Romney mean the base that Bush has routinely pissed on for the past several years?
“Right...former Bush supporters. LOL.”
Right on schedule - so predictable. Did I call it or what?
“If you supported GWB to start with, you still support him, because he’s done what he has said he would do.”
He promised no nation-building.
He promised to move the US embassy to Israel, to Jerusalem.
During his stump speech and RNC acceptance, he promised to reform education Instead he grew the Dept of Education and gave us No Child Left Behind.
He promised to reform Medicare on the 2000 stump and in his RNC acceptance. Did you really think he meant a multi billion dollar prescription drug giveaway plan for seniors?
He promised to lower taxes. Well guess what, they will go back up on their own. It was never made permanent.
On the 2000 stump he promised to reform Social Security. I didn’t realize that this meant making illegal mexican aliens eligible to collect from our so-called trust fund.
I could keep going and going, but it doesn’t matter. You drank the kool aid.
“That’s not worship, that’s respect. I remember when people generally had it for a President (pre-Nixon days).”
Respect is earned, my FRiend. It can also be un-earned.
He responded to 9/11 on matters of foreign policy. Even a kindergartner should know that.
For the rest of it....blah, blah, blah.
Kids can read and write, Saddam is gone and Al Queda bloody, seniors don’t have to choose medicine or food, and we have not been attacked in six years.
What he hasn’t accomplished, he at least tried. You remember his attempt to do something with Social Security?
I cannot in my lifetime remember a President that has done so much for this nation. That’s not koolaid, that’s reality.
You should try some.
You don't fault a man for sticking by his guns.
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