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Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Your attempts to refute my specific points of contention with Bush's policies shows how unbiased you are. I think people will judge fairly who is unbiased here.

My reply was about all this argument is worth at this point which is: ridicule.

Your 'points of contention' have been raised, debated and often refuted too many times to count on FR but the anti-Bush people just keep putting the same 'points' up over and over and then try to claim that if one specific member doesn't waste his time debating the whole gang then this somehow 'proves' the anti-Bush gang victorious and correct in every assertion they care to make as they attack our President.

Wrong, but clever in a smarmy, Clintonian way.

Of course people will make judgements. In fact, they already have. President Bush has 75% of the American people that are satisfied with his performance, an unheard of number in modern politics. Bush has near total support from registered Republicans, like me. You can say what you wish and complain until 2004 for all anyone really cares, but you are part of a distinct, whiny minority that never liked, wanted or accepted G.W. Bush as President, just like the liberals. No matter what the man does, you would still whine and name-call. That's crystal clear from the debating we see on these Bush-specific threads.

I'm totally out front with the fact that I'm pro-Bush, pro-Republican. I have reservations about some policies and programs Bush has pushed or bills he's signed, sure, but I also do not expect any politician to follow my personal agenda 100%, as you clearly do. That's naive.

I - and many others - can comprehend that politics is the art of the compromise as well as a ton of PR in this day and age. It's also gamesmanship, which G.W. Bush has proven to be very, very good at. The political 'purity' you demand from Bush or any politician will never, ever arrive. Get over it. That you insist on having this perfect president, always pleasing you 100% is absurd but then to insist that anyone who doesn't share your personal worldview is beneath you somehow is just ego-fed arrogance and often a cloak for someone who is really anti-everything and a sourpuss about life, in this case translated to politics.

Go for it, sport, but don't think you can post this junk on FR and get away clean with the never-ending anti-Bush rants. As I stated in my original post on this thread - ignored by you but what the thread was about - the O'Reilly 'story' was simply slander with no basis in fact and you use it as a club to beat the man you love to hate, President Bush. You should be above this but clearly are not. So be it.

Yes, let the readers decide, indeed.

Again, you have not refuted any of my claims. It is becoming very endemic to the whole Bushiban crowd. For the ten billionth time, I don't care if Bush follows my personal agenda a 100% of the time. It is impossible to ask for any politician to do that. I just want Bush to stick to his pre-election agenda, when he claimed he was a free-trader, when he claimed he was against racial quotas, when he claimed he was against big govt spending, when he was against CFR, when he was opposed to funding stem-cell research, and the list goes on and will go on in the future. Don't give me the stupid old whining excuse about the Senate. It only makes Bush looks weak. If he had a 75% approval rating, then why is a Senator from a po-dunk state yanking him around?

Yay! Bravo! You did better than I, in all my ranting at these people! But you're too kind, I sometimes think these people are liberal plants, posing as 'pure, unspoiled, true conservatives'. Why? Because of some of the things they post. It's the same stuff, just like you said. I can't prove it; but some things they say raise red flags.

But it's true that someone needs to answer them, and put them in their places. Not all of them, but many I believe, are plants. But I sure admire how you put them in their place! They need a verbal "smack in the face", once in awhile. Particularly when they get insulting, and forget their manners!