Posted on 01/16/2009 6:31:14 PM PST by Delacon
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH *gasps for breath* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!
Bush became the left’s national punching bag; he never fought back, even though he had experienced heavyweight brawlers in Cheney and Bolton that could battle with best of them.
It’s time to take the gloves off and slip the brass knuckles on, Mr. Milquetoast republicans. Stop being saps.
“It’s time to take the gloves off and slip the brass knuckles on, Mr. Milquetoast republicans. Stop being saps.”
The first step towards doing that is recognizing that Pres. Bush was not a good president. Not as a conservative and not politically. Politics is the art of convincing people to willingly do what you want them to do. Bush wasn’t good at that.
So, yeah -- this is kind of silly.
Was Reagan acting as a conservative when he signed on to amnesty?
What is conservatism anyway? Is there one definition everyone can agree upon? Is there no room for any debate on issues? Or must one perfectly tow the line at every single moment in order not to be expunged from the movement?
I agree with the previous poster. We need to put on the brass knuckles and attack the Bush haters like yourself.
You laugh because you have no counter arguments
Reagan ducked tail and ran from the terrorists in Lebanon.
Laugh some more.
“I agree with the previous poster. We need to put on the brass knuckles and attack the Bush haters like yourself.”
Couldn’t coattail another republican into the presidency. Lost both houses of congress. Leaving with the lowest rating since Truman. Republican party in obvious disarray. Made the republican party a laughing stock with his spending. But go ahead and give it your best shot.
But he stood up to and destroyed the biggest terrorists of all. Shrub is not fit to shine Reagan’s shoes.
Bush “polls low,” not because he was a rotten president, but because he did some things most folks on the Left disliked and he did some things that most folks on the Right disliked.
There aren’t too many people remaining, who saw things exactly the way Bush did.
> Bush did what he honestly thought was right.
That isn’t enough when you are leading the free world. You actually have to BE right for a majority of your decisions, and there were many times that W did not make a decision, just let things sort of happen.
Here are two examples of this that I noted at the time. There are many more.
1) 9-11 was a perfect opportunity to rally the nation to service and action. We were all ready! Our hearts ached to help this country. We could have been rallied to join public service, military or community service, develop energy independence, conserve oil to deplete the islamofascist source of income. Instead, he told us to shop.
2) NOT ONE veto of ANY pork bill. NOT ONE hint of leadership of HIS OWN PARTY when they were throwing chunks of money around and bloating up the government like a fat pig balloon.
Most recently, of course, Bush did not do what he thinks is right, unless at his heart he is a socialist. In a big way. What do you think the bailout was? A huge, whopping capitulation to socialism, giving 0bama the green light to go much, much further.
Does all the blame go to Bush? No. He was aided and abetted by the scores of traitorous RINOs infecting Congress. Together, they have turned the GOP into a party I no longer recognize from the one I knew in my youth, one riddled with corruption and lust for power, virtually indistinguishable now in so many ways from the America-hating Dims.
If the GOP hopes ever to be relevant again, it better take a good look at itself and do massive chemotherapy to rid itself of the cancer that has seeped into its very bones.
Murdoch is very apt in his criticisms. One thing however would be to opine how Gore would have done in the same situations. Perhaps for the protection and war against Islamofascism, W will be the good guy. Otherwise, I too see the credit and all the minuses that Deroy mentioned. They are point on and the destruction of the GOP will not be a loved item for its proponents.
NO, the history of Third Parties is woeful. The fact is, the GOP will fade, fade unless it stands up for its conserv foundations but the Dems will expand if the Messiah is anywhere near correct on his socialist pacifist views and stimulus. People nowadays want security over freedom. That means the real Socialist Party, the Dems will benefit.No Third Party is worth the powder you could blow them up with. Their votes this time was one of the worst % in history. Sorry , but no one is rising to be a new Messiah in that level so one must pray that the GOP grows some courage and communication skills with conservReaganism renewed or we fac actually a new tyranny that we have never really face, just one Party running the show. It is almost that now.
I admire George Bush for not selling out Christian principles. He may have been a bad politician, but he apparently understands that his standing before God is more important than the praise of men.
I also don't see the Christian values behind Please explain why he stole money from our children
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
and our children's children to give to those who had
already stolen from the taxpayers ?
inviting criminals to invade our country to
continue their crime and reward the criminal
behavior with citizenship?
Ours has been upside down since election day. It’s high on a pole smack dab in front of our house.
I pretty much agree with you, although Deroy makes some good points. I would have to say that Bush got the number one thing right, but he was a lukewarm conservative at best and his second term has been a disaster for the GOP.
“I think that we will never see another Republican President elected ... at least in my lifetime.”
I’m in my mid 40s. I don’t expect to see a Republican president again in my life time, and I fear that conservatives are about to become an endangered species.
About as fair and accurate an assessment as one could make.
One quibble, though. I wouldn't ascribe the turmoil in the GOP solely to Bush. The actions of the GOP majority and its leadership in Congress did much to foul the nest.
I recall our incessantly having to make excuses for them -- well, they don't really have a majority...well, there are some political realities they have to deal with, etc.
Next time, we should know better. Be merciless toward our elected officials. Hold their feet to the fire. And, if necessary, burn them in the primary.
“That isn’t enough when you are leading the free world. You actually have to BE right for a majority of your decisions, and there were many times that W did not make a decision, just let things sort of happen.”
I didn’t say it was; I just said he seemed genuinely honest about what he thought, and not simply a way to stay “on the good side” of voters and politicos.
I sure don’t think of W as even a Reagan or a truly great president (or Republican), but I do think he is genuine and not a sham artist. What you see is what you get.
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