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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.

I don't know how old you are, but I have a piece of advice for you from someone who has watched politics since the early 60's.

The fact is that you will NEVER get a president who agrees with you on everything. Never. If you expect that, you might as well find yourself another interest other than politics, and you will be a happier person.

George Bush did many conservative things: supported the military, prosecuted the war, lowered taxes, killed Kyoto, stood up for pro-life policies, appointed two great justices to the Supreme Court, promoted free trade, stood up for freedom.

The things he was NOT conservative on (No CHild Left Behind, immigration, Medicare prescription drugs) he CAMPAIGNED ON IN 2000. If these things were so terrible to you, you should have voted for Gore.

I don't know if ANY Republican can bypass the media. People are griping that he should have spoken out more; well, I don't know that it would have done any good, given the media's tendency to IGNORE him when it didn't suit him. Even getting Tony Snow as press secretary didn't help, and Tony was about as media-savvy as one could have wished.

Well, you can dance a jig at his leaving. For myself, I will always be proud I supported him and continued to support him through his last days in office. He will be judged as a great president, although it might take 50-100 years for historians to get an objective judgement.

a failure to find that veto pen that went all the way back to his first term, the failure to secure our borders,

The veto thingy (borrowing from his dad) bothered me to no end. But, the border thingy (in spite of an attack on our soil) still agravates. Somebody needed a flashlight to find all those 'points of light' streaming across the border but must have been out of batteries.

Hey, I'm all for more nuclear energy in this country, I just don't want it coming here in parts carried by coyotes.