I can’t argue with any of that. I do believe we might have dodged the guy we have now if we would have bitten the bullet sooner. Who knows.
Still, defending Bush by throwing up Gore or Kerry doesn’t exactly instill respect for him.
We should have elevated a man who understood what Conservatism was. Look, if you can’t beat Gore or Kerry to a pulp at the polls as a Republican, something is seriously wrong.
We can add Obama to that list. Imagine us picking a worse candidate to go up against him. Our guy said, “I respect the Democrats, and you have nothing to fear from an Obama presidency.” And he’s still in the party, LOL.
We put up the wrong guy for three elections. We put off the inevitable for 12 years. And during this time, we have slid right down the toilet.
In 2012, it’s a Conservative or I fricken give up. It will have been 24 years by then. If we’re serious about saving this nation, it’s time to put up or shut up.
I’m going to be screaming bloody murder about it if someone acts like a RINO in any manner whatsoever too.
“Still, defending Bush by throwing up Gore or Kerry doesn’t exactly instill respect for him.”
Sure it does. It perfectionism to compare Bush to some ideal that has yet to happen in our lifetimes and I guess never will.
“We should have elevated a man who understood what Conservatism was. “
Well, get 51% of the electorate to understand that and maybe we’ll get there some day.
“... We put up the wrong guy for three elections.”
It’s not like Ike, Dewey, Ford, Nixon or Wilkie or Hoover were any better. We put up the ‘wrong guy’ as a rule, and I suspect any of the 2008 top contenders would be ‘wrong guy’ by that metric. The only Presidents more conservative than GWB in my lifetime was Reagan ...
Merry Christmas.