You hear this from someone who kept supporting him while waiting for a truly conservative domestic policy to emerge.
Why can't we simply attribute it to the lack of principles. The man has been buying votes all this time. That's why the borders are open; that's why the government is bigger by 50%; that's why, after sending troops abroad, he has not exercised appropriate leadership at home. In his first campaign he kept saying he was a uniter. Not at all: he is an appeaser of opposition at home, a sell out.Of course you are right. I only said "he's on drugs" as an expression of my utter frustration with a President who I, like you, supported over many years.You hear this from someone who kept supporting him while waiting for a truly conservative domestic policy to emerge.
He 's not on drugs, but as you say, he has no principles.
He has goals. He has the goal of being finally accepted by the Liberal Establishment, the press, Hollywood, the UN.
And he has the goal of going down in history as being The Immigration President (though God alone knows why).
But such goals do not add up to principles, especially when those goals run counter to the years and years of promises he made to us, his loyal supporters, who he has now kicked in the face repeatedly over the last couple of years.
His goals also run counter to his duty, which he swore to, to protect the sovereignty of this nation. He has forgotten that duty, if, indeed, he ever fully accepted it. (All those years we screamed at our TV and computer screens "Bush why don't you fight back"... maybe he never wanted to fight back.)
If it ever comes out that Bush/Cheney/Rove made a conscious choice to throw the 2006 election to better enable an immigration bill, then the name George W Bush will go down in history as worse than Jimmy Carter, who at least committed all his blunders out in the open, and with the full agreement of the people who voted him into office.