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Sorry. I just realized I was remembering someone else.

mkjessup, I do know that to my best recollection you have never said one nice thing about President Bush. For whatever reason, you had an intense dislike of him.

That’s ok. People often take irrational dislikes to people because of their personality, speech, mannerisms, etc. Just don’t pretend that it was his policies that suddenly changed your mind. You have never supported him.

mkjessup, I do know that to my best recollection you have never said one nice thing about President Bush. For whatever reason, you had an intense dislike of him.

Well Miss Marple, I submit that your memory is not quite accurate, and if you were to take the time (not that I expect you to), you would find that in years past, I was one of the most enthusiastic supporters of GWB on FR, I voted for him in the 2000 primary, and in the 2000 general election, before my current incarnation on FR in March 2003. And you can be sure that I voted for him in the 2004 election.

Unfortunately, 'a funny thing happened on the way to the end of GWB's second term', and that was an abandonment of any conservative principles, a failure to find that veto pen that went all the way back to his first term, the failure to secure our borders, the failure to exercise even the slightest modicum of fiscal restraint, his throwing Don Rumsfeld under the bus, then John Bolton, he talked some real big talk about North Korea and Iran, but let's be honest here: North Korea and Iran are actually more of a threat now, than they were at the beginning of Bush's second term.

I will be the first to emphatically say that George W. Bush most certainly restored a sense of honor to the White House after the depraved shenanigans of one William Jefferson Blythe Clinton and his crew, and I am grateful for that.

The reality however, is that our outgoing President failed to defend himself, and his Administration from a lying, conspiratorial media working hand-in-hand with the Democrat Party, and that failure to stand up for himself consistently was correctly perceived as weakness, and that is why his political fortunes began to plummet, and that is why the GOP lost the Congress in 2006, and the White House this past November.

The fact is, I supported George W. Bush for a long, long time before it became apparent that he was no longer living up to his Oath of Office.