“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.
I think you throw up a guy like McCain to make him look better. If you’ve got to go clear down the Gore and Kerry, you’ve really lowered the bar to do it.
I don’t need to remind you, that Bush could barely eek out a win over these two.
I agree that we have put many people where were not the Conservative they should have been. And in those days, perhaps it wasn’t quite so bad.
Today, we’re barely hanging on to our nation. We either start moving back to the right, or we’re going to be no better than the U.S.S.R.
Folks can laugh at that if they want, but this health care bill is going to bring out the demons in the government. Good luck.
I agree about Reagan.
Merry Christmas to you too. Hope you and your family have a great time.