The Essential President Bush [Bush did not abandon us; we abandoned him]

The Anchoress ^ | 05/22/06 | The Anchoress

[wizardoz]

Reconciling those two wishes is going to be difficult.

Not at all. You get the federal government out of education, where it doesn't belong AT ALL, and you put it on border protection WHERE IT DOES!

[nopardons]

I am NOT one of the president's drooling sycophants, who claim that he can do no wrong. I have commented and yes, complained, about things that he's done and said, which I am not in agreement with.

OTOH, I DO always talk about the good things he's said and done, when the unceasing bashers try to hijack a thread.

BTW...there are FOUR borders and airports, which need tending to; not to mention overstayed visas. But give the man his due...he is THE first president, since Ike, to actually try to get something done about the illegal problem.

[wizardoz]

Well, I'm not sure what it is you want from me. I've said he's a great guy, I just wish he was more into border protection. What's your beef?

[nopardons]

Two things...your post to the other poster and that you decided to use this thread to trash the president on.

And thank you for proving my point, once you were called on it all. :-)

[CWOJackson]

LOL! So in other words, you want the government to defund a program other people think is essential in order to pay for a program that you think is essential.

[redhead]

Whoa. (wiping tears...)

[wizardoz]

I think you have me confused with someone else. I did not "trash" the president. I said in the mildest terms I want more border control and that is not "trashing" the president.

As for "where I did it," I'm truly sorry. I really never knew that Free Republic would become a place where it is forbidden to wish that the president were more fiscally conservative. This is quite a surprising development to me. I thought this was a political forum, not a fansite.

But obviously it's become a fansite. Let me just shut up and order my autographed picture of Dubya now. He's so dreamy!! Is there one with a halo around his head?

[wizardoz]

Yes, because those other people are wrong.

[jla]

RR was adamantly against any pardoning of illegals in this country. He, unlike our current Pres., did not have majorities in both houses of Congress.
RR took the route that would, in his judgement, avail to change on this issue. He made a deal with Congress, to give a one-time amnesty in exchange for our borders being secured, in actuality, not talk.
RR kept his part of the bargain, the U.S. Congress did not.
An alike episode was played out when RR bit his tongue and agreed to raise corporate taxes, with the promise that spending would be cut four dollars to one. Again, it was RR's faith that others would be true to their word that proved to be his 'Achilles heal'.
Surely, you folks like to use this as an example of Reagan 'abandoning the cause', yet you all never mention that it was he, and no one else responsible for cutting individual tax rates to their lowest level since the inception of that tax.
Not to mention that "Saint Ronald Reagan" can be attributed to bringing about the dissolution of this world's most horrific terror...the former USSR.
I won't bother enumerating RR's benefactions to this nation, and the world. Those are easily found as well as documented.

As for your remarks regarding Mr. J:

You obviously know nothing about him...and I'm being polite in that assessment.

Stick to pithy comments, Pardons, it seems to be what you're most adept at.

[CWOJackson]

"Yes, because those other people are wrong."

LOL! Pork is okay as long as it's your pork. I've got it now.

[wizardoz]

You think defending the border is pork??? okie-dokie...

[CWOJackson]

LOL! Nope, I'm just having a good chuckle over the people who are insisting the government do more on the border AND spend less.

[wizardoz]

Well, you're easily amused. I'm saying cut the social programs and defend the country. I'm amazed that this sounds odd on a conservative website...

[CWOJackson]

"Well, you're easily amused."

You're easily entertaining.

[luvbach1]

There's a big difference between conservatives pushing him to keep him from going soft, or making a huge mistake[especially on illegal immigration], versus the DNC Left savaging him for precisely doing the right thing.

That is a huge distinction that is often lost on Bushbots.

[A message]

I doubt many people here at FR would be happier with the results of a Gore or Kerry presidency.

I wouldn't be. I shudder to think if either of those jerks had made it into the Oval Office.

Overall this President, President Bush, has been an effective and consistent President who believes in the greatness, goodness and spirit of the United States of America.

A man who whether we agree with him or not has displayed the courage to lead by conviction and has remained faithful in defending our nation.

[OKIEDOC]

As I have posted on many occasions I am a Bush supporter.

I do not agree on some of his immigration stances but I do agree we need strong border security and a workable guest worker program that does not lead to amnesty.

The problem I have is with the Senate, John McCain and the RINO enablers doing McCains and Kennedy's water bucket duties.

Here is a list of the sell out RINOS that have stirred my anger:

McCain voted right only once -- on the Sessions fence. Here are his Republican minions that voted in lockstep with him:

Arizona
McCain (R-AZ)
Indiana
Lugar (R-IN)
Kansas
Brownback (R-KS)
Nebraska
Hagel (R-NE)
Ohio
DeWine (R-OH)
Pennsylvania
Specter (R-PA)
Rhode Island
Chafee (R-RI)
South Carolina
Graham (R-SC)

[Shelayne]

Thank you for posting this. I have this huge lump in my throat now that is making it difficult to swallow.

Dear God, please watch over President Bush.

[Gunslingr3]

Sorry,but something happened on 9/11/01 that kind of changed the outlook on nation building.

I love the circular logic of the White Man's Burden. "We put troops over there, so they attack us, so we put troops over there because they attacked us..."

[nopardons]

Please read what you posted in your reply #58.

This thread is about many things, yet you began by talking about how you wish he was more interested in the border. Mild or not, it was hijacking. then, in post#58 you personally attacked a poster and through him, others.

When called on it, you have been all over the place, and now, you're snarkily play the victim.

Once upon a time, long, long ago, FR was a place to debate and few threads were ever hijacked. That is no longer the case. Now, emotions are thought to trump facts, by some and a thread's topic is something to be avoided, at all cost, by the likes of you. Whinge away...obviously true debate is something you are incapable of doing.