Posted on 11/09/2005 2:11:49 PM PST by MAKnight
Good day Mr. President,
With all due respect, sir, what in the name of the Almighty is wrong with you?
And when I ask you this question I do believe I am speaking for the vast majority of those people who walked the precincts, sent down the checks, who cheered loudest when the Ohio results came in last year in November. I am talking about your supporters. Those of us who have and most likely will continue to stick by you until the day you finally return to Crawford three years from now.
We are the ones who have kept your poll numbers up when everyone else expected and hoped for them to go down. We are the ones who have remained your staunchest supporters even as the world mocked and insulted you. More importantly, We are the ones who got you elected, re-elected and provided you with majorities in both Houses of Congress, not just once, but twice.
We are the ones who hope and pray that you succeed.
So, again, with all due respect Mr. President, listen and take heed; we're tired. We're sick and tired.
We're sick and tired of seeing your poll numbers descending into the twenties. We're sick and tired of watching attacks by the other side and their Press allies on your Administration being met with only impotent and cowering silence. We're sick and tired of reading far better arguments on behalf of your own policies from the keyboards of anonymous posters on a myriad of websites than we hear from the mouths of your Administration's spokesmen (and this includes you). We're sick and tired of watching so many good men and women being slandered by the Democrats and their Press allies simply for being your nominees, without your Administration standing up to defend their honor. We're sick and tired of watching your administration compromising on the principles that got you elected, avoiding necessary confrontations, refusing to criticize even the harshest and most mendacious of your opponents, all in order to pander to an audience that hates you beyond the scope of reason.
And at the end of it all, what does your administration have to show for it? A torrent of anger, hate, lies and attacks from the other side and the Press that cannot have been any more than what you would have gotten if you had gone all out for a truly Reaganite Republican agenda and defended yourself and your administration, instead of listening to so-called "moderates/centrist" demands that you triangulate and turn the other cheek. Your continued dedication to cowering from your opponents in order to enamor yourself to the Left (or the so-called "Center") has only yielded continuously declining poll numbers for your administration and disastrous portents for your party's future as the majority party in Congress.
For goodness sake, why is it not yet obvious to you, Mr. President, that this dogged adherence to this "new tone" fantasy is actively harming you and your party? How much longer is your administration planning to continue imitating a punching bag? When, in the name all that is holy, are you going to start fighting back?! You are being overtly accused of deliberately sacrificing the lives of American soldiers in Iraq for personal gain by the Senate Democrat Leader and his Press allies, and yet you remain silent!
Why should I, or anybody else, continue to fight for someone who lacks the fortitude to defend his own honor and principles? Why should I continue to take the time to defend you when you refuse to defend yourself?
Mr. President, once again with all due respect, I implore you, stand up and fight. You were not elected to get along with Democrats or to make them like you. You were not elected to just get "things" done, but to get the "right things" done. You were elected because the American people trusted you more than the other guy to know what those "right things" are. Stand fast and fight back. Not just because you owe it to yourself, but, more importantly, because you owe it to your party, which made you their standard bearer and do not deserve to be dragged down along with you. Because you owe it to us, your supporters. Even more, you owe it to the soldiers fighting in Iraq, because you sent them there and yet they still gave you over 70% of their votes last year. And, finally, you owe it to the country, which looks to you for leadership, which needs to know that you did not send the best of its sons and daughters to die in vain.
Stand up and fight.
That is all.
Sincerely Yours
MartinAKnight
"Well at this point, will be sitting at our keyboards in 2008 wondering how the hell hitlery became president."
I won't be wondering. I will know full-well that it was the product of backstabbing "true conservative leaders" who accept thirty pieces of silver from liberals in return for trashing less-than-perfect conservatives, all in return for the opportunity to sell doom and gloom to gullible "true conservative" sheeple.
I like her a lot... smart woman. I get a kick out of her sidekicks too.
If they end up doing to Iraq what Clinton did to Somalia, what do you think?
Anyone who thinks that the Democrats would be better than the Republican party and our President, is probably posting on the wrong forum.
Someone HAD to say it...it was only a matter of time.
Watch out, cause here come the Viking Kitties and the Defend-Everything-Bush-Does-At-All-Costs people.
You can hypothesize all you want about whether a Pres. Kerry would have gotten Kyoto and the ICC passed. In your opinion there was "NO public support" which I disagree with. Fact is, the debate is now over and I believe Pres. Bush did have something to do with it.
And not to mention Bushbackers who responded to such criticism with absolutely nothing but ad hominem. If only they had responded with intelligent rebuttals, maybe things would have been different...
I have a friend back home who voted for GW, and said to me (knowing that I'm a member of FR and pretty solid Bush supporter): "Oh, by the way, 70% of Americans think Bush lied about Iraq. I'm beginning to think that way too."
The administration MUST make the case.
Looks like hes gonna do nothing and dribble out the clock , kinda like his tonedeaf father.
Again, I couldn't agree more.
Love your post! You put in print what I've been thinking for months now. This administration is woefully inept in the communication department. A shake-up is due alright and Scott McClellan should be the first to go since he should have been replaced after his first week on the job.
My favorite and TRUE line of yours is:
"How much longer is your administration planning to continue imitating a punching bag?"
See post #113. It's nowhere near 70%, but it's a plurality.
Looks like the MSM caught you hook, line and sinker. I realize there are issues that we wish President Bush had done a better job with. However, there is also a LONG list of GOOD things this man has done that many here seem to be ignoring. It is frustrating enough to have the Dems and their MSM cohorts painting this man as a failure, but when I start to see it on a Republican, Conservative, forum, it is sickening.
You can see it in his face... and the way he carries himself now. I keep thinking of Lincoln... and how he aged so quickly with the tremendous burden placed upon him.
Would be music to millions of ears. You have a link?
That's the mystery: He's so nice to them and so rude to his supporters
lol...I always appreciate a faux realist. Your survivor mentality of..."today's a good day- because it could have been worse"...is a dim light, as compared to..."today's a good day, because we have the surpassed expectations." Our fools never suffer their decisions- it is the Brave & the Bold, who withstand the onslaught, as presented- by Our enemies and Our fools...
Nevermind my earlier request. I checked out your link. Too bad some big mouth has to alert CNN before they even get the wheels on the wagon.
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