Posted on 06/01/2007 4:10:19 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
PEGGY NOONAN
Too Bad President Bush has torn the conservative coalition asunder.
Friday, June 1, 2007 12:00 a.m. EDT
What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting down a historical marker--"At this point the break became final." That's not what's happening. What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future.
The White House doesn't need its traditional supporters anymore, because its problems are way beyond being solved by the base. And the people in the administration don't even much like the base. Desperate straits have left them liberated, and they are acting out their disdain. Leading Democrats often think their base is slightly mad but at least their heart is in the right place. This White House thinks its base is stupid and that its heart is in the wrong place.
For almost three years, arguably longer, conservative Bush supporters have felt like sufferers of battered wife syndrome. You don't like endless gushing spending, the kind that assumes a high and unstoppable affluence will always exist, and the tax receipts will always flow in? Too bad! You don't like expanding governmental authority and power? Too bad. You think the war was wrong or is wrong? Too bad.
But on immigration it has changed from "Too bad" to "You're bad."
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
First things first, George. Let's perfect our own liberty and make sure it's working properly before we start exporting an un-tried product. Looks to me like it's eroding more than it is being perfected. Besides, liberty is something that people claim for themselves when they decide they are ready for it -- not something you can hand to them on a silver platter and expect them to revere and treasure it.
Remember, we couldn't serve our own wine before its time either.
> President Bush every day does what he believes is the “right thing to do” not what the popular thing is to do. He is guided by his own princple, and by a Higher power. If President Bush believes this is the right thing for America, then I am with him.
If that’s the only reason you are supporting him, that he says he’s doing the right thing (that’s good enough for you?) and not looking at the dangers of what he is pushing (shamnesty), I have to wonder about your priorities.
Plenty of people claim to be led by a higher power, and many of them are mistaken or con men. Don’t be an easy mark.
Really? A neo-liberal? Liberals embrace terrorists. I haven’t seen Bush do the likes of that.
I have a few observations to make.
1. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito ... or Supreme Court Justice Charles Rangel.
2. CHIEF JUSTICE John Roberts ... or CHIEF JUSTICE Catharine MacKinnon. (Yes Virginia, both Rangel and MacKinnon are licensed attorneys. That's all it takes to be eligible to serve on the Supreme Court.)
3. Terrorist groups, sponsored by Saddam Hussein, go on killing Israeli and American civilians. Perhaps not as many as Al Qaida ... perhaps more.
4. Al Qaida operatives, rather than attacking American soldiers in Baghdad neighborhoods, are attacking American civilians in American neighborhoods.
That's the problem exactly! Bush "believes" the "right thing to do" is to shirk his duties as required by the US Constitution when he refuses to enforce the laws and the borders of the United States.
He's lost me as a supporter.
my husband was a staunch suppporter of bush til this immigration reform thing started. Now he is down. He cannot stand by and support the loss of the sovereignty of this nation.
“DeusExMachina05”
What we need : )
Keep your eyes closed on his now Bill with Kennedy. You make a good Sheeple.
bump.
bump to a very interesting column
True, but is it asking too much for it to last more than 18 months? The coalition Bush won in November 2004 was largely gone by mid-2006.
Name calling is all you got.
No one cares to look into this connection. It is right there out in the open. Just google "Council on Foreign Relations" check the membership and what they are up to. The Bushes have been the waterboys for this ORG.
The WH's statements of late and during the Miers fiasco certainly support her conclusion about the thought processes in the WH about the folks who walked precincts for him. I don't think she jumped to an impermissible conclusion.
Go wash your mouth out with soap.
My apology. I misunderstood it. In my defense, I’ve seen sillier posts on FR that were intended seriously.
Wow. So you think Bush is a prophet or something? Do you think he's infallible?
Sounds like you're founding a new religion.
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