But what gets a leader long lasting respect is that he/she stands for what he believes and believes what he stands for. Reagan was that man over and over. Respect is the key.
When you are a leader and the opposition blasts you and you say nothing, it gets difficult to maintain respect whether you are right or not.
A skilled leader can make fools of left leaning opponents time after time--just look at how Newt so skillfully makes the rats look like fools over and over again.
Once again however, its not that you have to be right on every single issue,few are, it's the respect that you garner. Respect from you side and fear from the other side.Those two ingredients create a strong leader.
Demorats are incapable of being strong leaders since they have no core. They have no principles except the policy of expedience. They will do whatever it takes to score/buy votes. It's all they have, all they do, all they ever concentrate their efforts on. Therein lies the difference between us and them.
They care nothing for the well being of the country only the advance of Socialism.
We care for the country, a free America,and Free Market Capitalism. Huge differences there.
This parady song conveys nothing that conservatives believe in...it’s racist. Rush should not have done it. He should know better.
When you are a leader and the opposition blasts you and you say nothing, it gets difficult to maintain respect whether you are right or not.
I don't think that's always quite true, rodguy911.
Take FR, for example, (in the micro) where everyone is his own leader, posting his/her thoughts. Sometimes saying nothing in response to a truly absurd post is best. That old axiom about wrestling in the pigs with mud..
In President Bush's case, it was already more than amply clear that no matter what the man said the press was going to go full charge in insulting him. Why waste the time and breath in response?
Not to take anything away from your own view of what constitutes a leader, but to have engaged in the endless negative rennaissancian (sp) "dialoging" the left wishes, meant a great many tasks would go undone. Which is, IMO, precisely why the left engaged in such verbal excess - they wished to freeze the President into being able to do nothing but respond to banalities and inanities.
Now then, the journalists and MSM during the Reagan years certainly were negative, but there were still some brain cells functioning, and a sense of a "even tho I hate Republicans, I still wish the best for our country" sort of thinking. Therefore, engaging in retorts and responses was more productive. The mood, the template, the factors which existed during the Reagan years has not been existent during the Bush years.