I'm sorry Dick Gregory, maybe poker's just not your game. I know, lets have a spelling contest.
Posted on 04/27/2006 5:59:41 AM PDT by teddyballgame
I have always seen George W. Bush in a different light than almost all of his opponents, and even many of his supporters. He is a trained strategist, an MBA graduate of Harvard Business School, where he learned that the point of having a strategy is to win when it counts, not just to feel good about yourself at every moment of the process.
When it counts, right at election time, Bush tends to come out much better than his enemies assumed he would. The positions they embraced when they thought he was down and out turned out to be not such a winning hand
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
The Crawford Kid learned long ago that his enemies' greatest weakness is their inflated self-regard, lethally combined with withering contempt for him and his embrace of evangelical Christianity and Texas.
His enemies are, in a phrase, Hot-Lipped Hoolihans.
I never do
Excellent post.
I like hearing good news. I think you'll see Bush hit his stride as they get into the campaign cycle for the '06 mid-terms.
I'm sorry Dick Gregory, maybe poker's just not your game. I know, lets have a spelling contest.
I don't agree with everything he's done, but unlike some folks, I'm loyal to Bush because in terms of what I and other conservatives stand for, he's been loyal to me. I just think the record needs to be examined clearly.
I don't know. Unless Bush does a Kerry-like flip-flop and changes his stance on immigration and spending, he's made his positions on those subjects pretty clear already.
that should be David, however dick works fine too!
Since President Bush is not running for anything and is not in an election - what is the value of this?
All of these President Bush election columns remind me of the old question: What is the sound of one hand clapping?
The outcome of our confrontation (and, make no mistake, there WILL BE a confrontation) with Iran will define his presidency. He's up to it, as he's been up to every foreign policy issue he's faced.
Just wait, Rove & Co., will find a way to put the Dems on the defensive in the Fall. There will be a clear cut choice over a couple major issues. The Dems will be reeled in and make some stupid comments. The convential wisdom that the Democrats will win back the House and Senate is way, way too premature.
Bush, Rove & Co., had them vote for the War and put the same-sex marriage on the ballots in '04. Watch for somthing similar in the Fall, either the tax cuts being made permanent or drilling in ANWAR.
I think that was Val Kilmer's very best role. Ever.
Pro:
WOT
Supreme Court Nominations
Tax Cuts
(JMHO)
It has already begun. Democrats want rebates on gas prices. Republicans have already attached ANWR to the bill.
Obviously, you've never done a Political campaign from closer than putting up a sticker.
This "rope-a-dope" crap has debilitated his Presidency and killed his agenda. There's nothing to admire about it, imho. If he comes back, great! I love the guy. But it will have been in spite of a stupid strategy, not because of it.
When you break from your party's base on immigration and spending and then wonder why your polls are at 36%, you need to get a clue. We are not the "Throw the Mexicans Out" party, but Americans want the laws of the United States followed by all immigrants, not just by some immigrants. In an age of Qaedist terrorism, allowing Hillary to get on your right on the borders issue is inexcusably stupid.
Spending speaks for itself.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
They make it seem like a choice, but really there is none.
CFR?????????
Immigration??????????/
Spending?????????
There is no choice, only suicide slow or suicide fast.
You never saw Topgun?
I'm going to have to agree on this assessment. I'm a social consevative (fiscal, too, but it carries a little less weight with me) For the voter who votes strictly on social values he's been a good pres. I have my disagreements with him and am sometimes frustrated but when I consider that he's put 2 conservatives on SCOTUS (the real legacy) I'm pretty happy.
Points taken. It's hard to defend the guy at times. I just hope Republicans prevail in '06 and Bush gets the wind at his back for the rest of his term. As bad as things have been, seeing the Dems regain either House would be a nightmare.
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I was one of the few who didn't care much for "Top Gun".
I saw Top Gun, but not the movie that the posted Val pic is from. What was it? I'm watchig fewer and fewer movies as my list of H'wood No-No's keeps getting longer.
On immigration, I, too, just want the laws of the land followed uniformly.
vaudine
I'll be yor Huckleberry...
The Dems and the Lamestream media are ripe targets for the "Rope a Dope Strategy". The strategy is basically this, give your enemy enough rope and they will hang themselves with it.
Prime examples so far is the Dem's crying about "Domestic Spying". The President is not calling them on it even though the Dems are saying, in essence, not to listen in on Bin Laden and henchman's phone calls. I think the president wants them to try to impeach him over it and then thrash them with it.
In the press, the media are praising Mccarthy for leaking about terrorist prisons abroad. The President did not take them on about it, and the press fell for the "Rope-a-dope" and gave the reporter involved a Pulitzer. A trial of McCarthy and the reporter will apply raw egg to the face of the lamestream media and wake up Americans to the presses perfidy.
How do I know about the Rope-a-Dope strategy? My wife is a Registered Nurse and she uses it on Doctors all the time. When you are up against someone more powerful than you, the Rope-a-dope strategy is extremely powerful.
ping
I couldn't understand your comment -- the left is still focused on "downing" Bush, and before his term ends. If you have indeed been in politics, as you assert, then certainly you might be able to comprehend why he's still "standing" in the ring of fire?
"I was one of the few who didn't care much for "Top Gun"."
Same here, but all my buds hated it too so its more of us then you think. And not just because we hated Crooze before it was cool either! LOL
I was hoping for a real good movie about naval aviators, we got MTV pop drivel instead.
Personal hatred and focus. It is not rocket science. BTW, the left has never been right (correct).
I'm praying that he will be able to make one more SCOTUS
nomination before his term is up.
If he could leave office with the SCOTUS being unquestionably "right", interpreting laws, not writing them, then I'll be happy with his presidency regardless.
Every one of the crooks from the corrupt Clinton administration should have been purged from their jobs when Bush took over. Their loyalty to the Clintons and the Democrats seems to outweigh their loyalty to their country. I'm sure there are still many there and they need to go before Bush leaves office for the good of the country.
Actually, that is when you've made your point and they have to agree.
A Dope when the ropes been pulled usually goes "Urk!" or a stunned silence.
"But they will never learn. Contempt for the President and their own ego-maintenance demands will not let them recognize reality when they are outsmarted."
Doesn't this describe most DUers to a tee?
Who cares if Republicans have a majority in Congress if they are scared little bunnies when it comes to enacting a conservative agenda. The only thing they are passionate about achieving are SCOTUS appointments.
Yeah its funny to watch the Dems go wacko and sputter when they are out of power, but that gets old eventually. If Dems promised not to start any impeachment nonsense, I might even be in favor of them taking the House. Maybe that would make Republicans remember they are conservatives again.
How true.
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