Posted on 06/15/2004 5:32:12 AM PDT by Mia T
winning recipe for Bush: add a dollop of New York street fighter...
he Bush camp could use a dollop of New York street fighter... that is to say, Giuliani, with McCain -- geography notwithstanding -- the backup....
Bush must drop Cheney. (Notice how the Left, these days, is uncharacteristically mute on the matter of Cheney. That should tell you something about The Cheney Effect.)
Bush is asking the wrong questions about Cheney... and about winning....
The overriding issue is not about matters personal. Bush's personal ambition (or lack thereof)... or personally loyalty... must not cloud the calculus.
The overriding issue is this: Will President George W. Bush remain loyal to the Constitution?
Preserving, protecting and defending America is the president's only charge.
We are facing annihilation now because, frankly, Dubya's dad, similarly indisposed to the notions of the street fight and a larger collective loyalty, allowed the election of clinton, profoundly, dysfunctionally, self-servingly dangerous in much the same way Kerry is profoundly, dysfunctionally, self-servingly dangerous.
George W. Bush must put aside the personal... and all conservatives must put aside the provincial. Winning this apocalyptic war is all that matters now. |
Achieving a low soldier mortality rate with a policy of artful battlefield-and-responsibility-avoidance is hardly the measure of commander-in-chief success.
UNFIT: taking the measure of a would-be commander-in-chief |
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ohn Kerry says the war on terror is less about military might than about law enforcement.
Even if we allow for his characteristic flatulence and opportunism, John Kerry's demagogically tortured parsing of President George W. Bush's war-as-the-last-resort pledge and the fact that Kerry's list of the "real issues facing Americans" does not include the one issue, namely terrorism, that renders all other issues moot -- (health care, education and money have very limited utility to the dead)-- reveal a fundamental--and fatal--misunderstanding of America's situation.
When terrorists declare war on you and then proceed to kill you you are, perforce, at war. At that point, you really have only one decision to make: Do you fight the terrorists or do you surrender?
Contrary to clinton/leftist-media spin, this war waged against America by the terrorists did not begin on September 11, 2001. The terrorists--bin Laden--had declared war on America repeatedly, had killed Americans repeatedly, throughout the clinton years.
Remarkably, the same terrorists hit the same WTC building in 1993, and clinton, 15 minutes away from the devastation, didn't even bother to visit the site, preferring instead to add his old bromides on the economy to the pollution along the Jersey Turnpike. (Ironically, the legacy clinton would desperately, futilely seek throughout his life was right under his nose on that day in 1993; but he was too self-absorbed--too stupid, some would say--to see it.)
And as for the September 11 attacks, they were planned in May 1998, on the clintons' watch, in the Khalden Camp in southeastern Afghanistan.
The terrorists declared war on America on the clintons watch and the clintons surrendered.
Democrats, from the clintons to Kerry, reflexively choose "surrender."
President Bush chooses '"fight."
Andrew Cuomo didn't call the Democrats "clueless" for no reason. |
COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004
Yep...Cheney's become an integral part of this Administration, and to shed him now would smack of desperation at a time we have no reason to feel desperate!!
FReegards...MUD
That was "a few years back." I would be interested to know if attitudes have been Halliburtonized.
FReegards...MUD
What do you mean by "naively" believing? Are you saying that they can't rely soley on the truth being on their side without publicizing that fact more, or are you saying that the truth is not on their side and they have to grease the gears of the spin-machine and compete with the Dems?
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