Bush congratulates Obama on 'awesome night'

Obama’s, the Kenyan’s, reply: Thank you Mr. President, you have the right to remain silent.

I think George better head for that ranch in Paraguay.

Laura and I called to congratulate you and your good bride.

"Good bride?!" An unusual choice of words. What does that mean? She is his wife of many years, not his "bride."

Regards,

Bush was always a “thank you, kick me again and again” kind of person. I lost it with him when he gave that over-the-top speech at the Clintoon Library opening and he’s done it yet again. My screenname is not what I feel for the most part now. There’s a whole lot of naivete and blame to go to him.

That sums it up quite perfectly.

Perhaps you should read this article:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/06/04/fraud/

I don’t like liberals, but he’s right. George Bush is a Reaganite and, I’m sorry, but St. Reagan (to many of his followers) whored the party out in the name of victory and then ran it into the ground. G.W. has simply continued this trend. Heck his daddy was more of a true conservative. When is the party going to learn to kick the nuts out of the party and run as conservatives again? Kick the religious wack-jobs that won’t compromise to the curb. Kick the “greed is good” supply-side pimps in the rear out the door. Time to toss the Neo-conservatives out like the petulant children they are.

I put the blame on this loss plainly on US. Conservatives whored themselves out in the name of power, and just like Newt, became petulantly overconfident. We allowed idiots to label disagreement as dangerous. We allowed talking heads to call others traitors in our name. We tried to rule this country not on principles, but on fear. Many foolishly deified Reagan as the “winner of the Cold War,” when he was simply the lucky guy the USSR went broke to. This was as idiotic as following his unholy trinity down the path to ruin. I can’t tell you how many liberals mock us for wanting the morals of the 1950’s without the tax code. I can’t tell you how many point out the cognitive disconnect of our own candidate embracing TR and then cutting at income tax. I can’t tell you how many pointedly talk about the difference between free and fair trade.

I experience a very good conversation with a reasonably sane liberal talking about how he’d love to change trade laws to effect “sectoral reciprocity.” Asked to explain, he told of how S. Korea limits our car imports to a certain number every year, and how he’d like to limit them to the exact same number until they removed it. Exact, mirrored, trade laws. This, from a liberal no less. He wasn’t afraid of trading with China, but he doesn’t want the Maoists manipulate their currency and markets to keep American companies out! He calls Chavez a blanket Fascist dictator. He called Iran a waste of time, but we do have differing opinion there. He’s all for sending in SpecOps anywhere to kill Osama. He thinks that allying with Pakistan (a known terrorist supporter prior to 9/11 with many hints it still supports the Tigers) was a mistake. He thinks we should trade with Cuba, because it’s idiotic to trade with China thinking it will turn them Capitalist while acting the opposite way with Cuba.

I’ll leave you with these words. They’re from a liberal, but resoundingly accurate. Call G.W. names all you want, but he wasn’t the first person to whore out our party, and we let them get away with it.

Rush Limbaugh, November 8, 2006 (Bush approval rating — 31%):

Liberalism didn’t win anything yesterday; Republicanism lost. Conservatism was nowhere to be found except on the Democratic side. . . . Conservatism did not lose, Republicanism lost last night. Republicanism, being a political party first, rather than an ideological movement, is what lost last night.

Rush Limbaugh, July 7, 2004 (Bush approval rating — 55%):

Reagan was right just as George W. Bush is today, and I really believe that if Reagan had been able he would have put his hand on Bush’s shoulder and say to him, “Stay the course, George.” I really believe that.

Bob Novak, March 26, 2007 (Bush approval rating - 32%):

With nearly two years remaining in his presidency, Bush is alone. In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party in Congress — not Jimmy Carter, not even Richard Nixon as he faced impeachment.

Bob Novak, March 24, 2003 — (Bush approval rating - 65%):

[Bush is] a president who may be more basically conservative than Ronald Reagan.

The newfound storyline that Bush’s failure is attributed to the fact that he was never really a conservative (and, all along, was really liberal) — and that movement conservatives are thus his disappointed and betrayed victims — is pure fiction, the most transparent form of revisionism. And this deceitful purge — whereby movement conservatives would suddenly turn on Bush and claim he was not a “real conservative” once his popularity collapsed — has long been predicted, particularly in the blogosphere, the most classic and precise expression of it offered by Digby long ago, in February of 2006:

“Conservative” is a magic word that applies to those who are in other conservatives’ good graces. Until they aren’t. At which point they are liberals.

And Digby again:

George W. Bush will not achieve a place in the Republican pantheon. Conservatism cannot fail, it can only be failed. (And a conservative can only fail because he is too liberal.)

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Conservatism failed because we let it become enthralled with a power lust. Power attracts the corruptible, and we keep electing corrupted idiots. While it’s funny to point out when the Democratic party does it, we should not tolerate ourselves. We should swiftly remove ANY purported conservative with even a whiff of impropriety. Only by showing the rest of the country that we hold ourselves to what we believe will we truly be worthy of leading.

Not surprising he has done everything humanly possible to get him elected. His last major salvo was nationalization our banking system!

Insane!!!

“Awesome.” The perfect word for a puerile mind. Hopefully, this is the last we will hear of the name Bush in American politics.

Jeb was OK as FL Gov, but I agree after this the Bush family is through.

Good for Bush...sore grapes would be pointless. I’m also relieved Obama won a large enough margin, so we wouldn’t be tortured with a narrow loss. It’s time to move on.

Obama;s campaign was a well oiled machine...he stayed on message, and learned from Reagan’s use of lofty language which gained him an optimistic halo. Regardless if the rest of us on the right see it as BS.

It didn’t help that conservative talk radio attempted to destroy McCain during the primaries. It’s hard to regain honest support for our candidate when he’s been called McLame etc. The point is, we tend to ear our own.

Now that we are in the absolute position of minority status...we no longer have to worry about compromising the message.
It’s time to unleash the hounds....

Interesting that you have been a member of FR for less than one day and every single one of your posts calls Ronald Reagan a ‘whore’ in one form or another. Very interesting indeed.