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A few hours before the last speech I told my wife that I’d lost all respect for Bush. Then I read his speech (I can’t bear to listen to him mangle the language), and I thought -- this could work. If they are truly aggressive and go after Syria and Iran as he says, this could work.
Then I hear Tony Snow on the radio explaining to Hugh Hewitt that going after Syria and Iran doesn’t mean any raids, attacks, or bombing of Iranian training sites, bomb makers, and so forth. Same with Syria. Snow insisted that they weren’t prepared to go that far against those countries with direct hits on them.
I threw up my hands. Game over. We lose. These people haven’t a clue. They will not fight the enemy. Bush always talks tough and never follows through. Here we go again. I’m done with him. I despise him.
He may have single handedly destroyed the Republican Party. Rarely has a party had the opportunity Bush had in 2002 to reform the government. What a God awful failure he and the congressional Reps. accomplished.
We may need a new party now. The stink of the Repubs is so great, their cluelessness so ingrained, their fecklessness so supreme that the base is indeed disgusted.
I share Mark butterworth's disgust. It is interesting to hear the Republican "true believers" admonish people like us for "abandoning the cause." I've gotten this a few times, of late.
I couldn't bear to watch or read the speech. And to think that right after 9-11 I felt such pride watching our resolute president declare his unwaivering commitment to protecting our security.
The bad seed was, I think, planted early. Bush and co. came in with dreams of a "Palestinian state." A bad idea that just gets worse the more you think about it. They never quite understood who we were at war with, or what, minimally, would constitute a reasonable strategy for success.
Were I a Jihadist, I'd be absolutely giddy right now.
Ditto to both of the comments above. What I truly sometimes wonder is whether we are beyond the possibility of a democratic solution to our mounting problems. Islam, Mexicans, judicial tyranny, prosecutorial misconduct, congressional cluelessness, mounting debt, declining literacy and morality, outsourcing of everything, and ingrained PC liberalism all around: Is it time to reboot the system, or even perform a complete reformat and reinstall?
The details of the incident in question are absolutely repulsive. Bush puts our guardsmen in a position that invites their humiliation by common criminals. Their uniforms might as well be Halloween costumes, or the pretend apparel of weekend warriors. The greatest disgrace of his presidency may not lie in Iraq - in which conflict he shows nothing but adulation for our troops' bravery - but in these 'smaller' conflicts (at the border) in which the adulation transforms into a willingness to toy with their lives, and in the airports, where he toys with ours.
I hear you, gentlemen. What's amazing is that so many of the party loyalists, God bless 'em, just can't quite comprehend that former supporters of the President have been driven to this despondency. They really doubt the sincerity of our conversions against Bush.
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