Posted on 06/03/2002 10:04:46 AM PDT by hchutch
Just the headline
ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!
George W. Bush is a politician, and a good one. Moreover, he is unique as a politician in that he is among the very few who are persons of high character and integrity.
You are so right: this is gut-check time. People need to figure out what their end-game is and go from there. If they'd rather have Rats in power than support a good man who, right now, is the leader of the party of good ideas, so be it.
There's not a person on this earth who could meet the expectations of some of the people here. It's just not possible, not humanly, not politically, not geopolitically. And if an American president did have enough power to enact or impose every single policy he desired, without having to compromise with either the opposing party or world leaders or whomever, then Freepers would be very sad indeed. We'd be living in a dictatorship and, even worse, one in which a Rat as well as a Republican could be king.
Another brilliant Karl Rove strategy!
I think the president would have better luck just being himself. He's basically a decent guy, and people like him. He doesn't need to do all this "triangulation" garbage.
BLAM!!
Our agenda is in there. It is really a conservative using Bill Clinton's techniques AGAINST the Clinton party. The irony is quite delicious, IMHO. I have never liked CLinton's morals or politics, but I have ADMIRED his political skill, and felt that there were things we could learn from it. It looks like Bush has begun to apply some of the techniques.
[snort!] It'll take a hell of a lot of "global warming" to return Greenland to the idyllic farming country the Vikings found and settled! >:p
I note that many of the so-called scientists now screaming about global warming were, when I was in high school, issuing dire warnings of a new Ice Age by 2025! All of the global warming models are bullshit. Not one of them can "predict" the documented past! Taken in either direction, they all run off into catastrophic climate changes. They are bullshit, and the scientists who support them are spouting bullshit because that's what gets them all that nice grant money. The New Ice Age is out of political favor! Long live Global Warming, the new favorite!
I agree completely.
All Rush is doing is alienating many of his listeners and certainly marginalizing his former influence. When W has 70% approval ratings, is making historic inroads into traditionally Rat voter segments (soccer moms, Hispanics, et al.), do you really think some blather about, truly, the nuances and syntax of a stupid U.N. global warming report is going to cause the administration to even notice, much less change directions?
Maybe it's because I'm an inside-the-beltway type, but it sure seems like some folks don't know the definition of "politics." What does not work in politics is what Rush and gang are doing now (Sean included, although he often seems more reasoned).
All during the primary Rush, for example, was there exhorting people to take the long view, not to nitpick every little political detail, not to support someone who could not win (a change, BTW, from Rush's stance in the previous presidential election when he said people ought to support Pat Buchanan on principle and winning be damned!).
Maybe Rush wanted Bush to be Pat Buchanan. In which case---no offense, Pat---the world would be a very different place right now, and I don't think Rush & gang would be any the happier for it in the end.
Silence, silence, silence.
*dismantled that NAG-feminazi organization that used to ride PC-herd on the military, DACOWITS;
*has begun the process of reversing Bubba's dumb women in combat policies;
*axed unnecessary, pork-barrel weapons programs and is taking the heat for it;
I could go on . . . I am very sorry that we are not all rejoicing at what we got instead of bitchin' about what we don't got.
It wasn't long ago we had a pervert and predator in the Oval Office. But some people seem more in a tizzy about a dumb restatement of the obvious on global warming.
Someone mentioned this story was nowhere, zero on the establishment media today. Hmm, donchathink if Bush was truly caught in a Barnum-and-Bailey flip flop the talking heads would be foaming at the mouth today? Guess they read the report, not the NYT, and decided, nope, won't go there.
Excuse me, but do your 2 D's stand for 'Dumb and dumber?'
The reason that we support President Bush so fervently is that he is the polar opposite of Xlinton. Morality as opposed to debauchery, honesty as opposed to deceit. I think I can speak for a large number of so-called Bush-bots when I say that we are the group who hated what Clinton did to our country the most.
You seem to hate Bush more than you hated Clinton, and take it out on those of us who have respect for this fine man.
btw, if the DITL thread bothers you both, nobody's making you go there.
Further, Rush's value as an entertainer was that he brought optimism and hope. We are at war now and all he does is bitch. I'm not suggesting he not speak his mind, but I'm also not suggesting I have to listen to him moan over dumb doo-doo.
We have so much to be thankful in having a man of such high character as Bush to lead our country right now, why can't we focus at least some on the positive?
The Rats got slammed when they came out trying to attack Bush for dumb doo-doo---why does Rush think he can do it and not alienate millions?
Who is Sean Hannity? I love these guys who think because they have a mic in front of them or a camera on them that they have become political strategic experts. They don't even have a clue as to what information the administration had that was part of the decision-making, strategy process.
Sean is still more listenable than Rush these days, because his analysis is more reasoned and incorporates more of the true political context, but he should be careful not to go down the whining road.
One of the truest non-religious statements I've ever seen on the FR.
What is worse, having the Goron or Bush as President?
Is Bush out of his mind on this one? It is funny how a lot of you are covering for Bush. Bush, like his daddy is a NWO guy and if you all ever read about the NWO types you know what is going on. Everybody around Bush is a internationalist, NWO type.
We can now make the analogy that Bush is to Gore and all the other leftists as Socialism is to Communism. Similarities being, you get the same end result with either party, just with one you get there a little faster.
I live by Ronald Reagan's golden Rule that though shalt not speak evil of another Republican but what Bush is doing is really making me almost embarrassed to be affiliated with the Republican Party.
As a party, we have to get back to Conservative principles because that is what makes us stand above the Commies in the other party. We have to dispose of the Rockefeller Republicans in our party; out them for who they truly are and get back to doing what is best for our Constitutional, Representative Republic.
That I agree with 100% !
I think Bush at this point is cleaning off his desk. And I think that merely sweeping this "global warming" crap into the circular file would give the leftist goofballs ammo to say Bush "doesn't care about...", "won't address...", etc. They may have been too clever by half on this one, or maybe the Gray Old Whore is as devious an arm of the DNC as everybody always thought.
The stealth attack is working. I know people that are now watching FOX and seeing the politics in a very different light. They were totally unaware that the major media were do dominated by the democrats and the "hate" republican agenda.
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