Posted on 06/08/2006 5:12:02 AM PDT by FerdieMurphy
As Carole King sang thirty years ago, “It’s too late, Baby.” She was referring to romance, but in this context it is too late for Team Bush to recapture the loyalty of the conservative GOP base.
Immigration/amnesty, Dubai Ports, Harriet Meyers, Katrina, deficits and Iraq have destroyed Mr. Bush’s credibility as president. The new federal effort on gay marriage is as transparent as the dispatching of “less than 5,000 unarmed national guardsmen” to our southern border: a cosmetic ploy in a vain effort to keep the conservatives in line.
This White House just doesn’t get it. Period.
Before - when Bush was in the 50's in all national polls - he could keep the GOP in line; and the GOP was happy to follow because they were winning.
But when your leader plummets to 29% - and is voted in the latest Quinnipiac poll as the worst president since WW II - there is no hope of enforcing party discipline. Thus you see the open defiance in the House on the Bush/Senate/McCain/Kennedy amnesty for illegal immigrants. And you see Speaker Hastert basically tell off the president over the FBI raid of Representative Jefferson’s Capitol Hill office.
The internal state of the Republican Party is one of total turmoil. They are floundering - and do not know what to do to right the ship of state.
So they are - again - trying to federalize a state issue: marriage.
Since when did we conservatives believe the federal government should usurp state’s rights? This is yet another example of the Bush Big Government philosophy changing the basic tenets of the Republican Party. The Bushes - believers in a Big Federal Government - have become the un-conservatives: a huge Department of Education, a bloated and ridiculous Department of Homeland Security, massive deficits, a new ‘entitlement’ - prescription drugs, a never-ending war that has morphed into the dreaded ‘nation-building’ and on and on and on.
After all of that, why would conservatives happily re-join Team Bush just because he mouths a few platitudes about an issue a close friend of his tells Newsweek, “He doesn’t give a s*** about”?
Both George Bushes - father and son - tried to portray themselves as conservatives; both were cynical manipulators who cleverly used symbols - pork rinds, country music, a phony ‘ranch’ with no animals - to hide their Rockefellerism belief in massive federal power, especially when they control that power.
But it is indeed “too late.” GW Bush’s credibility is shot; his power eroded; his ability to influence events virtually gone.
His own arrogance and ignorance caused his downfall. He was too arrogant to listen when warned about the impending fiasco in Iraq; and he was too ignorant - and lazy - to study history to see what lay ahead in a war such as this.
The result?
A presidency deteriorating right before our eyes. Never - even under the inept Carter or the corrupt Nixon - have we seen a self-immolation quite like this. And we still have 2 ½ years to go!
The Republican Party is a mess; the Democrats are horrible and should never be trusted again.
No wonder more and more people are calling for a Third Party. Or, as has been written in this space for more than a year, an Independent Third Candidate who runs against both parties.
That may indeed happen in ‘08. But that is a long, long way away.
First comes a major battle: where is the heart of the Republican Party? Is it for someone like McCain - a Teddy Kennedy in GOP clothing?
Or is there another Ronald Reagan true-blue conservative out there somewhere who wants to re-take our party and put it back on conservative principles?
That is the key question today.
LOLOLOL
Which chickenhawk at the WH 'got' Zarqawi????
Everybody knows the rich and their kids don't go into the military...especially in a time of war!!
ROTFLMAO!!
GW has two girls of draft age and a nephew also I believe...which branch of the US military are they serving in?????
LOLOLOL
The poor and steadily disappearing American middle class kids in the USAF are the ones that sent Zarqawi straight to hell with a 500 pound, made-in-the-USA, big ass BOMB, and don't you forget it!
You know the same folks GW has declared war on for his entire term!
Oh, like you never had a typo.
No. I haven't had a drink in 17 years when was the last time you were impared by alcohol?
I'm not making sense? Could you be a little more specific?
This last statement just shows how ignorant you are. TF145 got Zarqawi, the Air Force just delivered the package.
Check in when you have some idea of JWTF you're talikng about. I'll be here.
No. CWO W-1 Jackson. That was I haven't got time for DeWhine!
Keep on laughing out loud!
And where do you get off inferring that I, as well as concerned others on this website, am stupid?
You and MNJohnnie need to get together and start your own website where you could insult and belittle others until you pass out from "laughing out loud." Of course you'll be the only two participants.
I, for one, have had quite enough of your pointless comments that offer no intelligent discourse, but then next year you'll be a junion and then there'll be high school graduation.
I imply, you infer. if the implication fits, wear it. Otherwise relax and enjoy Zarqawis demise.
More obfuscation.
No dimwit, instuction in the use of the English language. Now don't bother me any more, I'm busy celebrating Zarqawis demise.
It never fails to amaze me that in the face of all experience the conservatives believe that keeping marriage laws on the state level will prevent the ultimate capitulation to the gay lobby.
The federal district courts will over turn (over throw?) every referendum and every state legislative act on this subject. Until we the people can reign in the run away judiciary the only defense of traditional values is through the long and difficult amendment process. Would that it were not so.
He's dead Jim.
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