Newt is Professor Harold Hill
Posted on 02/28/2009 5:32:45 AM PST by Sub-Driver
All this apologizing and groveling about Pres Bush has produced defeat in 06 and 08, so why keep the same strategy?
You would NEVER see Democrat do that, never.
Have you forgotten or are you too young to remember how President Reagan was repeatedly attacked for his "irresponsible deficit spending"?
Newt? I'll tell you, that man had his head up Pelosi's backside, how anyone could call him a conservative is beyond me.
Too late. Unless conservatives learn to manipulate the news cycle like Liberals have for the last 8 years....too late.
Yep, he had little choice. He had to save his fight for the terrorists and ended up being "agreeable" because he had NOBODY guarding his back. Name more than one or two people who appeared on the TV talk shows who stuck up for him on anything. Who made a decent arguement on who was responsible for Katrina. Who got out there and pointed out his achievements on TV? Who fought for him here at home?
He was in the arena alone.
I disagreed with him on a number of things, but nobody could change his mind on things because there was nobody he could trust.
By the time we shoot all our wounded we don’t have any ammo left for the real enemies.
Newt is Professor Harold Hill
Well said!
IMO, we have been extremely fortunate on that count.
Nineteen men committed the 09/11 attack. Fifteen of them were Saudi nationals. We have over thirty thousand Saudi students on our soil right now. We have also allowed people from the Middle-East to continue to immigrate to the United States. We also allow Islamic Clerics to urge violence from the pulpit.
We have all sorts of people coming across our southern border. We have twenty to thirty-five million people here that we don’t know from Obama Bin Lauden. We just don’t know who they are period.
So I hate to say it. I appreciate Bush’s actions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and sticking to it, but when it comes to our homeland, that guy was one lucky son of a gun.
Oops... Osama Bin Laden... LOL
Fools. Bush was far from perfect, and in his second term he greatly damaged the GOP and capitalism. But in two years, we will be longing for a president as good as W, and in 20 years, when all the jihadist threats that we SURVIVED because of his actions are made public, he will come up dramatically in the eyes of many of these embarrassed people.
The GOP's problem, including Bush during the past three years is a complete unwillingness to defend what they did right. The Clinton team defended the impeached, disbarred liar to the death, but we as a team bought the left's lies hook line and sinker...and the party ended. I fault the GOP leadership in Congress and the White House for a terrible, terrible spending record, but beyond that, they were pretty consistently right on. Their buying the 'bush is terrible' sank the party, instead of defending all the good decisions.
Had Bush aggressively and (in my view, viciously) pushed back on the WoT, it would have actually enabled the GOP to separate from him on fiscal issues while supporting him on WoT.
The bottom line is as bad as the "big spending" was, it was the same compromise that was done under Reagan: spending in exchange for protection. You can have both, but it's unrealistic to think that Bush didn't provide one.
It's true people expect competence. But guess what? Competence can be faked until you get it. That's exactly what Obama did. What has he EVER been "competent" at except running for office?
No we do NOT need a technocrat Newt/Huckabee promising a more "competent" government, we need a CONSERVATIVE who can lay out the case for a SMALLER, LESS INVASIVE GOVERNMENT.
Yep. I’ll freepmail you something.
You’re on fire today, LS!
Can’t stand Bush bashing any more than I will tolerate half-baked conservatives criticizing Rush, the ONLY person in America with the cajones to say “I hope Obama fails.” I only wish I could have gone to C-PAC with the other profs and students from my university. I had another interview engagement this weekend, for an upcoming book on rock and roll!
Hi there .. glad to see we’re on the same page.
Limbaugh is the leading conservative - and being a conservative is not necessarily related to being a republican. Conservatism is FEARLESS! Republicans are moderates.
“LIMBAUGH IS THE ONLY ONE standing up to this moron.”
Rush “Its all about me” Limbaugh is a terribly flawed man whose personal baggage forms the basis of a very successful assault by the Left on the brand of conservatism Limbaugh has come to represent. Conversely, Limbaugh’s attempts to sway the populace now and in the past with tales of drug use and homosexuality by Obama, while calling him variously a Marxist or a Socialist have failed miserably. He may be the only one “standing up” to Obama, but he’s going exactly nowhere, except maybe to the bank, laughing at all of us with his $400,000,000.00 pay check.
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