The Bush legacy is bound to be more mixed than the sentiment on this thread.
Leadership after 9-11.
So far, no similar attacks.
John Roberts, Sam Alito
Tax cuts that produced similar to what the Kennedy and Reagan tax cuts produced, and pulled us out of the economic demise that Osama had planned for us.
Stem Cell policy
Partial Birth Abortion Veto
Very good pro-life record in general
Vision for freedom in the world’s deeply troubled, violent areas (whether you agree or not or care or not, it is a positive vision based on western religious and American values
Brought a sense of respect and decency back to the Oval Office after Clinton.
I know the Bush bashers well. I’m not talking to them or about their views when I mention the good things by this President. When I say legacy I’m being literal...what a legacy is, NOT what somebody says about someone while they are still President everytime something goes wrong.
The Republicans (so far) in this nation have NO EXCUSE for what they have done. The truth about McCain and Huckabee and conservative principles is out there and plain for all of them to see. They fell for the media’s template. Inexcusably.
I’m sad about Fred’s showing this evening, but I don’t want to give up hope. Only 5 of 50 states have voted. It’s time for a “PITCHFORK REVOLUTION” with the slogan TURN IN OFF (meaning the MSM). The press with their efforts to sway the election be damned. It’s time for some door-to-door, grassroots activism on the part of true blue conservatives. I’m not ready to give my country to the RINOs. As Mark Levin says, “It’s time to push back the liberal hordes.”
I hope Fred will stay in. without him, we have no real conservative in the race.
I understand and yes, he has maintained much in the face of the storm, but the shamnesty thing dissolved the glue. My biggest problem has been his seeming naivete on Islam and those inside our country he chose as the representatives thereof, which I tried to discount for a very long time. I tried to defend his lack of the use of the veto pen as a necessity to maintain votes for war funding. Maybe some of these things will need time and stepping back from. We’ll see.