Posted on 03/08/2008 5:55:24 PM PST by fkabuckeyesrule
“The Bush presidency is going down in history as one of the greatest”
You are absolutely correct. He’ll be right up there with the Hoover administration, another misunderstood, yet highly successful presidency.
Yes, I got that much. But then he got so bogged down in excess verbiage that I gave up on it.I wouldn't worry. It's not directed at FReepers anyway. It's more of position paper for the RNC crew and figuring out strategy for the general. They might be trying to soften up the diehards too, for a coming McCain repudiation of Bush.
I don't know how American Standard can print such garbage.
You are absolutely correct. He’ll be right up there with the Hoover administration, another misunderstood, yet highly successful presidency.Nope. Jorge will go down in history as a guy whose administration had great ideas(stabilizing the ME, fixing social security, etc...) and through a combination of hubris and incompetence managed to screw up each and every one.
Jorge's legacy died the minute he listened to Rumsfeld over Shinseki.
Yes, thank you President G W. Bush, millions time millions.
We have been blessed to have you as our president for such a time like this. May the Lord grant you long healthy life.
The Democrats and the MSM are only engaging in their normal tactics. To prevent scrutiny of their own failed policies they create an enemy at the gates. Internationally it is the USA. Domestically it is their political enemies. In this case, George W. Bush.
Remember “The Worst Economy in 50 Years”? Then “The Republican Culture of Corruption”, then “This Failed Administration”, etc. Bush’s “failed administration” is made whole cloth from repeated assertions by the Dems and the MSM. Period. Cased closed!
The refusal of Bush and his supporters to stand up to his detractors and correct this misinformation is a mystery and frustration to us all.
"F" you and the donkeys ass you rode in on Bell.
In war, sometimes language is the most important factor in the final Victory.
The men below snatched Victory from the jaws of defeat by using their language to keep the Home Front from being demoralized by battlefield defeat after defeat.
George W. Bush almost succeeded in snatching Defeat from the jaws of Victory by his failure to use language to keep the Home Front from being demoralized after some of the greatest battlefield victories in military history.
Nope. Bush has won every fight that he's picked with Congress, from tax cuts to banning partial birth abortion to funding our troops in Iraq to missile defense deployment and use to the Patriot Act.
With less than a year remaining in his time in Office, President Bush is so successful, so powerful, that Democrats are passing his wiretap immunity for telephone companies and have already passed his Economic Stimulus plan (without so much as offering one of their own...a striking failure for the current Majority Party).
Where Bush "fails" is only in the minds of hyper-left-wing news media fanatics, who can't let a day go by without an anti-Bush article or TV program.
"It has driven every facet of Democratic political strategy since early 2006, when Democrats settled on the campaign themes that brought them their takeover of the House and Senate in November 2006."
Nope. Democrats eeked out ultra-narrow 2006 victories in the House and Senate *only* because the news media hyped a single GOP Congressional scandal about a gay Representative and a "minor" (turns out he was 19) House page boy (while simultaneously ignoring a Dem Senate candidate's gay boy porn book that he authored).
Moreover, it is instructive that the current Democratic Congress has vastly lower public approval ratings than does the President...and is choosing to run for President exclusively from that Senate.
In short, the author is clueless...easily debunked per the above and more.
For example, the idiot author of the article for this thread thinks and says that the dominant theme for Democrats is anti-war and anti-Bush, ignoring or failing to grasp Hillary Clinton's famous 3 AM "who do you want answering the White House phone after a national security crisis" campaign ad.
The guy is a friggin' lightweight. The author simply does not grasp American politics.
Agree. This is a lesson in how not to write an article.
ANYONE who starts a piece citing an opinion as a “dominant fact” doesn’t deserve my time....
Please spare me anymore such successes...
Remind folks of the activities of violent islamo-fascists all over the world. Makes sense to me.
I agree that the president should have made the tax cuts permanent before trying to fix social security. Now we have neither.
He lsot me when he compared Bush to Reagan.
Anys such comparison is wholely superficial.
Bush’s Presidency IS a failed one. But it failed because it failed to deliver its promise and because it betrayed its core constituency - conservative and right of center Americans who put this fraud in office twice.
This kind of post-mortem is to be expected from Liberals who will do everything they can to associate the idiotic policies of this man with the American conservative movement in an effort to taint us all with the same brush.
“Compassionate conservative” = “Rockefeller Republican” repackaged.
I do not accept the premise. The Bush Presidency has not failed, far from it. The so-called Republican “leadership” failed to grasp it’s moment because it was so busy covering it’s a$$, and so, from judges, to policy, to taxes this great President was left to fight alone in the wilderness of lies, manipulation, propaganda and treason that has become the culture of this country as represented by those in control of the corridors of “information”.
What are we left with ? The contrast will soon become clear and like Reagan and Truman, W will be fondly remembered as the last of his kind.
Reading this is more of an endurance contest than a brain exercise... trust me.
I think it was all recalled, wasn't it? But serously, Jeffrey Bell simply chimes in with DBM in affixing the "failed" label to GWB's presidency thereby overlooking the most destructive force by far during this administration: the media itself.
I don't call it a failed presidency knowing the esteem in which our Armed Forces hold this Commander in Chief. The real failure in this nation is that so many voters, the vast majority, have forgotten September 11, 2001. That is the failure facing us in this election year.
“Thank you George W. Bush. For having the fortitude to fight the Islamics. For having class. For ignoring the low class attacks against you. For discerning the truth when you were surrounded by yellow dogs shouting lies. I am proud to call you my President. You have inspiered me with your true courageous leadership.”
Well said.
If McCain should indeed win the election, I'm counting on his temper in one respect. I'm hoping he will clear out the leftist holdovers from previous administrations, and really become the conservative he claims he is. I also hope he names a strong healthy vice president, because of his age.
Isn't it the rule that we should excerpt long articles like this from prominent publications?
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