Posted on 11/18/2008 10:29:58 PM PST by Yomin Postelnik
An overwhelming majority of conservatives understand that we must not emulate the Bush haters. Liberals believe in a cult of personality. Conservatives believe in ideas. Our support of President Bush is linked first and foremost to policy. Likewise, our opposition to President-elect Obama is based on policy. But for those who will soon join us as they see the harm of liberal policies and become disillusioned: your opposition to Obama must be based on the issues and on what he does.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Bush is the reason we are in this economic and political mess dumbass.
Reject Obamunism ... in all it’s forms.
What is Obamunism, as described in Obama’s book he supports a collectivist world view. For a definition of collectivists, just look up Communism.
America is a country of individuals, with freedoms, not a country of brain dead Democrat drones managed by the head collectivist.
I agree.
IMVHO...BS
Sorry, but this is more close to the truth at the moment.
I blame Bush only because he followed the lead of Greenspan and/or anyone else who pushed the weak dollar. It was crazy to drop the rate to 1%, which allowed ordinary people in California to finance houses that were worth 10 times their income.
I blame Bush only because he followed the lead of Greenspan and/or anyone else who pushed the weak dollar. It was crazy to drop the rate to 1%, which allowed ordinary people in California to finance houses that were worth 10 times their income.
Agreed.
And sadly, America will have to learn (relearn really) about libearalism the hard way too, and I have no problem with saying “I told you so”.
Yeah, the Democrat controlled congress with people like Barny Franks, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid have nothing to do with the economic downturn.
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The difference between us and liberals is that we don’t worship slavishly of our politicians no matter what they do, e.g. Clinton, Obama.
We rightly praised Bush when he was right and we pummel him when he’s wrong. I don’t belong to a political cult.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32cxf_yuri-bezmenov
Which policy? Appointing or attempting to appoint family buddies with no qualifications to important office? Conspiring with the Mexican government to evade the immigration laws he took an oath of office to uphold?
I support Bush when his policies are correct and oppose him when they are not. So do Hannity and Mark Levin and other conservatives. You run that article implying that we should look at policy and not personality, then proceed to defend Bush on personality.
Sure, he was right to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. There were very good reasons for doing so. But Bush was totally incapable of conveying those reasons to the American public because he is the worst commincator I have ever seen in a higher political office. He can barely frame a paragraph. He was right to set up Guantanamo and use forceful methods to press terrorists to release vital information. His efforts to prevent another terrorist attack on American soil, his opposition to abortion and appointment of conservative judges are to be praised - although in some cases - Alitto - it was done under compulsion.
But his attempt to contract out with Dubai to run our ports, to appoint somebody with NO related qualification as head of FEMA, to replace Ashcroft with ALBERTO GONZALES, to refuse to take any steps to slow down the invasion of America by Mexican nationals, to oppose English as an official language, to switch his views on global warming, to pander to the Saudis, to persecute American border guards, to fail to acknowledge ISLAM as the root cause of terrorism, to ignore the plight of persecuted Christians in Islamic countries, to support a Democrat initiative to bail out corporations with $750 Billion of Taxpayer money with no apparent strings attached to make sure where that money went, to work towards a North American Union, all bespeak a man who is hardly a conservative and barely a Republican.
Why now, when the fruits of his flawed presidency have come to the fore in the form of an elected Marxist Isalmophile, is it suddenly necessary for Bushbots to come swarming out of the woodwork to defend this guy?
I despise what Bush has done to the Republican Party, to America and to the conservative movement by his many flaws.
Does that mean I am not a Conservative? Hardly. check my posts.
The less said about this man and his Presidency the better and the sooner he walks away from the Presidency into the pages of history the better off the Republican Party and the conservative movement will be.
Conservatives are forced with trying to take back those congressional seats Bush came to office enjoying, trying to decide whether or not the Republican Party is any longer an effective vehicle for promulgating traditional, patriotic ideas in the American political forum and finding a candidate to oppose Obama in 2012, not to mention figuring out an effective policy to handle the inevitable adverse fall-out of an Obama Presidency - a Presidency Bush's own record low popularity ratings helped create. We don't have the time or luxury and certainly shouldn't have the incliniation to rescue Dubya from his own actions and inactions.
He was an even WORSE President than his father. NO MORE BUSHES!!!!
Bull Shit
Guess McCain lost the election because the public felt he was not close enough to Bush or because they didn’t like Palin’s hairstyle. I imagine the Dems swept COngress because the American felt Bush’s party didn;t support him enough.
There is only one group of people throwing Bull around here and it is the Bushbots.
Hey Lone Ranger, now I don’t like the left wingers or Bush. Bush has proven to us in the last 6 months he did everything he could to get Obamanation elected and destroy the Republican brand.
Why dont you name one specifific thing Bush did to cause the credit meltdown....or do you subscribe to the deregulation myth? ( Reagan,s Fault)
The point is rather that as much as we were never worshipers of any politician, nor were/are we blind haters like liberals of them. What is despised is the sheer evil, stupidity and transfer of Obama burden on our shoulders, as well as us being threatened into making co-promises with liberals to murderers, terrorists, liars, thieves, communists, redistributionists and dangerous aborters and other assortment of creeps who will murder anyone disappointing them.
Let the electorate disappoint Obama, not us.
At the begining of his term, Bush came out and proposed corrections to Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae to address the problems generated by the prior adminstration and a Democrat Congress. He was aware of those problems. So was McCain.
When the Dems and some people in his own party resisted, he collapsed like a cheap deck of cards. As the PRESIDENT and a man presumably aware of the consequnces of that situation he should have fought them tooth and nail and let the American public know the consequences of what Barney Frank et al had done and were CONTINUING to do AND the implications for the future.
KNOWING that 70% of the American public OPPOSED a bail-out, to pursue and support a Democrat concocted initiative on this subject right before the election, ESPECIALLY when economic advisors were clearly split on the efficacy of this approach was the hgiht of stupidity. Enmeshing McCain in it ws not very bright either, but McCain was to blame for so DRAMTICALLY engaging himself in it while Obama stood in the background and whispered his support for it.
I wouldn’t equate Ronald Reagan with Dubya - in no way are they equivalent. Reagan was a great President, a great man, and a great communicator.
Bush, like Obama, is an empty suit.
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