Posted on 01/16/2009 6:31:14 PM PST by Delacon
Neither of these men has done 1/100 what Bush has done for conservatism.
How many justices have either men placed on the Court?
Oh wait, they probably put Sandra Day O connoer on didnt they?
Reagan ran up bigger deficits than Bush— he showed far less fiscal restraint. So Reagan was not by any measure fiscally conservative.
He nominated and placed Sandra Day O Connor on the Supreme Court. That was an unmitigated disaster.
He placed 300 peacekeepers in Lebanon to appease Israel Bashers. Those soliders were murdered. When prompted to retaliate, he refused. He pulled out and ran from the terrorists.
Please understand. I think Reagan was great. But if this is how it is going to be for Bush, then I will destroy Reagan with exactly the same logics being used against Bush.
It is not even close. Bush fielding more than 200,000 volunteer soldiers repudiates the soft post Vietnam era America in a way that puts him light years ahead of “I conquered Grenada” Reagan.
I'll never understand why he didn't veto some pork barrel spending.
I’m hanging my flag upside down as of Monday and Tuesday I have rifles that need to be zero checked and sighted in from 11 to 1 eastern time.
We still fly our flag 24/7 - lighted all night. I still believe in the USA and its also a hint to prospective burglars that they might want to go someplace else. Don’t give up on our great nation - fight for it! ;-)
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Maybe Mr. Bean might compare to Carter, or Kramer from Seinfeld, but those guys are fictional characters.
We ain’t seen disaster yet. We will be so wishing we had Bush back.
Derbyshire, Bartlett, and Gertz put O'Connor on the court? Yeaaaaahh....
Thanks for the poem. Listen I voted for the guy like most cons out of necessity. He never inspired me. FDR and Kennedy inspired the dems. One was a socialist and the other could arguably be called a con in this day and age so its a wash. It wasn’t until Reagan that cons had an inspirational leader. Now the dems have one. We need one.
Oh my bad.
They offered something much more valuable and useful:
Criticism.
You make some good points but Reagan did so well for the republican party and cons that he managed to get Bush Sr elected. If you want to count the mistakes of a presidency thats fine, but it took Lincoln 4 generals before he could win a war and he could have lost his presidency to one of his own generals for his 2nd term if it wasnt for Sherman burning Atlanta to the ground. My point is that the country forgives their presidents mistakes so long as they inspire. The dems now have an inspirational leader. Ideologically and politically. What do we cons have?
Obama sucks. Having said that, is Bush your Messiah? Thou shall not criticize the Bush in anyway, shape, or fashion?
Many Freepers are no different than lefties when it comes down to stifling debate.
And I do agree that W will fill the history books, just like Hoover.
I couldn’t agree with you more....I’m sick at heart and fearful for our nation, our way of life.....and to have to sit by and see what’s been done over the past few generations by our so called leaders and not be able to do a darned thing about it sickens me.
This One World Order be damned. Everything that has happened has been deliberate, including the financial debacle...all to wipe out our middle class, which has been the backbone of our country.
“Too nice by half, his “new tone in Washington” unilaterally disarmed Team Bush against critics who devoured them like piranhas.”
They ‘devoured’ him so much that he won re-election. These anti-Bush articles are a dime a dozen.
Murdock is usually a thoughtful writer. Thus is beneath him.
For AM bump! ;-)
I would never equate Bush with Jimmy Carter.
Any president who is in office for 8 years will make mistakes, little ones and big ones. In some ways W was too nice of a guy to be Prez. For example, why did Iraq drag on for over 5 years under his watch? The left would have hated him even more than they did, if that is possible, but after Saddam Hussein’s regime was toppled, and the insurgents took over Mosul and Fallujah etc, we should have given the women and children 24 hours to leave those cities and then carpet bombed them into oblivion along with the hateful scum within. If WW2 had been run like Iraq, Nazis would still be in Dresden, Munich, and Berlin sniping at our troops. The same goes for Japan. W would have never dropped the A-bombs on the Japs and our casualties would have been huge. Nixon and Reagan would have dropped the bomb to their credit. I still admire W but as Prez he earns a C+ from me.
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