“Its fairly well documented that W was no friend of the Constitution.”
Other than the Dems consantly throwing mud at Bush, and screaming about lost rights because he treated Terrorists as they should be treated....could you give us some “well documented examples?”
My College Football coach never told me to let the opposing team control the ball as a good way of winning the game....
The liberals hated him. Score one for Bush.
Bush went after the Isalmoterroists with a vengeance and set them back on their heels. Never heard from them again on our soil after 911, 911 being attributable mostly to Clinton's showing in the 90's of the typical liberal double-minded weakness inviting attack. Score another for Bush.
He was consistently a moral force against abortion, embryo stem-cell research, and the like, and a Christian influence for good in his openly holding Jesus as Lord.
His judicial appointments were a bulwark against constant judicial activism.
So militarily, morally, spiritually, and judicially, he scored.
Where failed IMO and proved to be no friend of the Constitution was politically and economically. Unfortunately, in those areas he was his father’s son. You don’t need me to tell you about his historic growth in government spending and growth, creating things like no child left behind without any constitutional authority to do so. The Homeland Security Act ran roughshod over constitutional rights in the name of security. But as Judge Napolitano points out, that’s an agreement with the devil. If today you allow your constitutional rights to be stripped in the name of benevolence, you’re leaving the door open for a tyrant later (now?) to seal the deal. This criticism is coming from an independent conservative (myself and others like me). I couldn’t care less what the idiot liberals say. But Bush’s distain for the Constitution (he’s been quoted as saying essentially it’s a worthless piece of paper – and his actions backed that up) in his domestic policies and unconstitutional growth of government hurt our country.