Posted on 05/19/2008 5:55:34 PM PDT by Kaslin
The Presidency: It takes little courage — or brains — to join the mob vilifying President Bush. But the Democrats (and Republicans, too) depicting him as villain will one day regret it.
Barack Obama plans to reach the White House by claiming the presidency of Sen. John McCain would amount to a third Bush term. McCain, meanwhile, seems to think it a wise campaign strategy to highlight his differences with the president, such as outgreening the greens on global warming.
Rep. Tom Davis, former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, reflected the panic engulfing many Republicans in Congress last week when he called President Bush "absolutely radioactive" and warned, "They've got to get some separation from the president" if they want to win this November.
How about a dose of reality?
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I think Bush is a great man and President and one day history will treat him as such.
I was so proud this weekend when my 7 and 11 year old boys told their 16 year old stepsister (after she made a derogatory Bush comment) that she needed to respect her president.
I'm really tired of wimpy republicans but it looks like we're going to get more of the same.
I think Bush sold out the North Korean people for the sake of a ‘legacy’, he’s talking out of both sides of his mouth, telling the Israeli Knesset that on the one hand, they shouldn’t negotiate with terrorists, but he continues to push his ‘Road Map To Rest-In-Peace Israel’ which would end up dividing their land, giving it to terrorists, and pretending it’s a “Two State Solution”.
I also think that for all his prattle about “not allowing” Iran to have a nuclear weapon, he has failed to take effective action not only against the Islamofascist regime in Tehran, but to retaliate against proven Iranian forces and proxies that have been killing our troops in Iraq with impunity.
And do we need yet another reminder about how our illustrious Commander-in-Chief has failed to secure our borders, and has condoned the railroading of two of our Bord Patrol agents by a corrupt prosecutor?
Greatness is not achieved by doing a half-ass job and running one’s mouth instead of taking action.
That will be the judgment of history on George W. Bush.
Bush has done a great job in many ways. He should have vetoed more Republican spending bills before they lost the majority. The ONE issue that hurts the Republicans now is the high gas prices. Every day, when someone fills up, they think it’s Bush’s fault. They forget that in 1994, Bill Clinton vetoed a Republican bill to drill in ANWR. Bill said it would take ten years to get it up and running. That would have been 2004. Now it’s 2008 and everyone’s forgot what Bill Clinton did. The Republicans need to make their case for more drilling, more refineries, better gas mileage. People need to be reminded of what the Dems want to do. THEY are the reason for high gas prices with no alternatives for us.
When history is written, it will find President Bush as one of the greatest President of this century, if not all times. No matter what the left and the republican Bush bashers say
Thank you for posting this. I’m as angry at the spineless republicans as I am at the LSOS democrats. I don’t know of any of them I will feel as confident in as I have this President.
I have got say, for my Domestic Issues, there has never been a better President of the United States, from appointing Conservatives to the Bench and the SCOTUS, to protecting Firearms makers from crushing lawsuits, to Tax Cuts, to Federal Funds for Abortions, to creating the largest nature preserve in US History..
Now it can be said that in the political silly season, candidates will try to distance themselves from President Bush, that is politics and it is a rough business, butas for the “worst president ever” crap, his critics may whine, but he has accomplished a heck of alot for the American People and Conservatives who care about our Culture.
Right now, we all have seen so much of GWB, we maybe don’t realize what a good President that he is.
Thus endeth the sermon...
GREAT POST!!!! Why in God’s name doesn’t he, Bush, get out there and tell the public that things are not as bad as they have been made out to be...?
We had a Pearl Harbor attack seven years ago, Katrina, Iraq war etc etc. The democrats undermine him at every turn...
He’s been a great president...but a poor peeese poor communicator...
nick
If this was praise of Bush, if was faint indeed. I kept looking for something in this article that referred to what Bush did with those six years of congressional majorities and what legislation was passed that forwarded a conservative agenda.
Michael Savage says Bush is the worst CIC in history.
President Bush never said “Mission Accomplished” I wished you would read the whole transcript
I don’t care what Michael Savage says. He is wrong
These Repubs need to buck up; find their spine, if possible. . .look their Constituency in the eye; better the MSM and Lefties et al; and Rino's; and show some WILL and some pride that they are Republicans; and America IS better off now; than it was on 9/11.
Take a page from Obama's book; if nothing else. . .but mean it.
bush has been awesome
All of his detractors have done little more than aid our enemies.
You better be the one writing the history.
Ignoring and exacerbating the immigration situation (especially after the free hand he was given on 9/11) is an inexcusable guffaw. I could go on, but that one thing there is enough to torpedo your incredible claim.
Savage is an idiot if he said that.
“But he ended up doing the political equivalent of a fetal position on the floor for 8 years while he was kicked at from all sides. All the time he should have been fighting back - hard, dirty, and brutal.”
Wrong. President Bush isn’t a talking head, so he didn’t waste precious time fighting every slur that came his way. He has held firm on his key beliefs and has accomplished more than many Presidents could hope to (I think some Freeper compiled an amazing list a while back).
As someone pointed out here recently, for example, who would have thought Schroeder and Chirac would meet their downfall during a “cowboy” Presidency? Yet they’re gone, and their replacements are downright pro-American compared to them.
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