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What the heck is wrong with you, Mr. President?
MAKnight | 11/09/2005 | MAKnight

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


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KEYWORDS: bush; fight; patriotletter; president; republican; sleepertroll; stand; term2; vanityvanityvanity
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To: Southack
Yeah, sure he did all that, but what about ________________.

Fill in the blank for the pet peeve of your choice.

Great post.

21 posted on 11/09/2005 2:22:20 PM PST by 11Bush
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To: traderrob6

you mean as opposed to the Bush bashbots?


Amen, those Bush Bashbots are a dime a dozen.


22 posted on 11/09/2005 2:22:25 PM PST by JFC (W, I am with YA)
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To: Southack

Thank you for that list. I will bookmark that.


23 posted on 11/09/2005 2:22:51 PM PST by JFC (W, I am with YA)
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To: HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath

AMEN!


24 posted on 11/09/2005 2:23:08 PM PST by Battle Hymn of the Republic
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To: MAKnight
I'm fine with your rant up to this point:

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.

Its no secret why we are at War. Terrorism anyone?? 9-11, years of attacks with no response...

Only anti-USA dems continue with talk like that. Dont be a mouthpiece for them.

25 posted on 11/09/2005 2:23:16 PM PST by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com)
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To: Southack

You need to update that list with one of these :)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1518385/posts
Iraqi's Thank America (Wow, this is moving!)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1518791/posts
KURDS SAY THANK YOU--AWESOME AD ON FOXNEWS!!!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1518877/posts
Iraqi Kurds thank the United States for liberation in New T.V ads (From MoveAmericaForward)


26 posted on 11/09/2005 2:24:30 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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placemark


27 posted on 11/09/2005 2:24:51 PM PST by adaven (http://www.red-dawn.net (The Man Show of forums))
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To: MAKnight

The President has accomplished much. His only really major failure is his administration's ability to communicate all the good he's done. If only he would come out fighting the Plamegate and WMD charges with the same energy and determination he used right after 9/11...


28 posted on 11/09/2005 2:24:58 PM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: JFC

Very sorry state when supporters have to implore the President to show some fight. I dont think he has the stomach anymore. But Im sure Andy Card is telling him things are ok with the base.


29 posted on 11/09/2005 2:25:21 PM PST by samadams2000 (Nothing fills the void of a passing hurricane better than government)
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To: MAKnight
He did a lot of great things. But he also has his flaws. Refusing to protect our own borders and supporting the Palestinian Authority Animals are his two major shortcomings.
30 posted on 11/09/2005 2:25:39 PM PST by Paul_Denton (The U.S. should adopt the policy of Oom Shmoom: Israeli policy where no one gives a sh*t about U.N.)
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To: Southack

Great Post, Southack!!!!

Facts versus my-way-or-the-highway.

I'm leaving this post before the rest of 'true conservatives' start their schtick/baiting.

Your sane, reasoned post has been copied and saved elsewhere (with proper credit given) so I don't have to return to this thread.


31 posted on 11/09/2005 2:26:22 PM PST by Kitten1 (12/23/1898; 12/25/1901; 3/6/36; 6/25/39; 9/11/55; -- Your sacrifice is not forgotten.)
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To: Iron Matron
Republicans who support Bush and his Unconstitutional Union of the Americas

LOL.

32 posted on 11/09/2005 2:26:32 PM PST by 11Bush
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To: MAKnight

Beautiful and amen.


33 posted on 11/09/2005 2:26:56 PM PST by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: Southack

Thank you, thank you.

Actions speak louder than words.


34 posted on 11/09/2005 2:27:21 PM PST by Jedidah
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To: Calpernia

Another great post.

Thank you Calpernia.

I've saved your post elsewhere also.

I'm outta here.


35 posted on 11/09/2005 2:28:09 PM PST by Kitten1 (12/23/1898; 12/25/1901; 3/6/36; 6/25/39; 9/11/55; -- Your sacrifice is not forgotten.)
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To: Southack
That is a mighty fine list of accomplishments but I think the point of the letter was to quit taking $hit from the Dems. I actually agree with the point of the letter, it may be harsh, but sometimes you need to be blunt (he's a Texan, he can handle it).

As for your list, I wish we could add "closing the southern border, and deporting illegal aliens". That would make me happy, that and terrorist heads on stakes on the south lawn of the White House.
36 posted on 11/09/2005 2:28:10 PM PST by A Texan (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: 11Bush
LOL.

Yeah. You're lauging now....

37 posted on 11/09/2005 2:28:30 PM PST by Iron Matron
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To: Kitten1
:)
38 posted on 11/09/2005 2:29:13 PM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: MAKnight
Your post makes me wonder why any Conservative would waste their vote on a Republican.
39 posted on 11/09/2005 2:29:44 PM PST by Burf (We'll all be drinkin that free Bubble Up and eatin that Rainbow Stew.)
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To: MAKnight
Looks like you've just blown your chances of being invited to the next White House Iftar dinner.
40 posted on 11/09/2005 2:30:15 PM PST by dagnabbit (Vincente Fox's opening line at the Mexico-USA summit meeting: "Bring out the Gimp!")
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