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massive increases in deficit spending,

Have you ever heard of strategic deficits. That is one contribution of Reagan to conservative philosophy.

free trade,

If you don't know that free trade is conservative, ie, freedom enhancing, you don't know much about being a conservative.

and mishandling the early stages of the Iraq War. That’s conservative?

Liberate two countries with essentially minimal KIA. Did it ever occur to you that if in a war you miminize collateral damage and civilian casualties, the aftermath might be a bit more difficult. Your understanding of war and the history of war come right from the MSM apparently.

Bush is not blameless.

Nobody said he was blameless, I did not care for his first term steel tariff increase. What I said was that the Dims rallied around the indefensible to avoid taking big losses for their side. The conservative pundits and bloggers like you have allowed Bush's reputation to be torn to shreds often unfairly, hows that working out for you? Not surprisingly to me the GOP voters turned to the center after failing to get defense from the right, you satisfied with the nominee you got hanging Bush out to dry?

Theodore Roosevelt once said “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

One of the final straws with GWB was his sacking of the two Border Patrol agents as requested by his “good man” Johnny Sutton. Even if the agents should have been dismissed, where is the justice in their case?

“If you don’t know that free trade is conservative, ie, freedom enhancing, you don’t know much about being a conservative.”

You missed my tag line.