[lonestar67]

Honestly, I think you have— and many maybe most conservatives do— have a weak rationalization for why you don’t defend this President. The nice thing in my own mind is that regardless of who wins, I think you will get clarity on how foolish you were to indict this man of great character. McCain is going to throw you under the bus so much you are going to be more familiar with the transmission than the seats on his straight talk express.

Bush took the hit on bailing out the banks. McCain could have gone either way on that and Bush would have accomodated him as he has throughout this election.

Here again I ask all the Bush bashers. Where has all the Bush bashing by McCain and Palin done any good for us. Why has it not sprung McCain more clearly into a lead? McCain and Palin agree that the economy is horrible— which it is not. McCain and Palin agree that Bush’s foreign policy is highly flawed— which it is not. All of these things are gifts of a man with character and wanting his friends to thrive at his expense.

This won’t have to last much longer and I have little doubt that history will vindicate him. History really has no choice. We will either live as free people aware of history or we will be radically subjugated under forms of fanatical statism that make history and meaningless concept.

Bush has won. He took the side of freedom at incredible cost.

[paudio]

You missed my point. I never said history will never vindicate him. I'm 100% sure it will, and Dubya knows it. Precisely because of it, I resent him for not fighting back when the media defines him and conservative movement. I'm not bashing him for what he did for the country. I am faulting him for what he did (or more precisely did not do) for the conservative and Republican causes--which I will argue below, might have negative effects to the country in the long run.

Yes, he has done good things for himself. And perhaps, for the country during this time. However, by not defending himself and the ideas that Republican hold--even worse, by absorbing blames for somebody else's mistakes like in the case of Katrina, he let the the image and brand of conservatism and Republicanism tainted. This, in turn, prepares the way for 0bama to get elected. If 0bama get elected and he succeeds in fundamentally change the United States, like he promises, whatever good thing Dubya achieved might be swept away by 0bama.

I cannot blame McCain for separating himself from Bush. Because Dubya didn't do anything to defend conservatism and Republican brand, the brand is tainted, at least for a short run. McCain has no choice but separating himself from him.