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That a lot of name calling all rolled up into one rant. I reported your post.

It is inappropriate to call Bush a 'neocon'. He is not. Furthermore, this is a defamatory term used by libs.

It is inappropriate to call Bush 'stupid'. He clearly is not.

It is inappropriate to denigrate other Republicans as 'cronies'. Who do you expect him to appoint - Progressives? People without experience?

I completely disagree with your assessment of GWB as a "horrible communicator and a horrible leader". He has done a magnificent job through very difficult times.

You regret helping to elect Bush? Why? You would much rather have had Al. Gore or John Kerry as President? Your taxes raised rather than lowered? An immediate surrender to the islamists rather than 6 years of fighting them? Bill Clinton and friends on the U.S. Supreme Court and in all the lower courts?

I certainly don't think that the GOP 'sat on its laurels' for this election. I saw a lot of hard working people putting in a lot of extremely good effort. One of the stars of the campaign was George Bush. He was out there every day pushing our position. He did a great job of explaining it too.

"That a lot of name calling all rolled up into one rant. I reported your post."

LOL! Sometimes describing someone in a negative way is TRUE! Good report THIS post too! Isn't that what all liberals do when their precious feelings are hurt or soemone disagree with them?

"It is inappropriate to call Bush a 'neocon'. He is not. Furthermore, this is a defamatory term used by libs. "

It fits. Get used to it!

"It is inappropriate to call Bush 'stupid'. He clearly is not."

Not only STUPID but he LIES. Just the other week he clearly stated Rumsfeld would be with him to the end of his term. Then after the MASSIVE defeat NOATIONWIDE, STUPID, VERY STUPID BUSH gives them Rumsfeld's head on a platter. VERY STUPID!

"It is inappropriate to denigrate other Republicans as 'cronies'. Who do you expect him to appoint - Progressives? People without experience? "

Name someone on his staff with authority that is NOT a crony of George Bush Sr.? Perhaps Daddy is working things behind the scenes since Bush Jr. is incompetent? Surely you can't believe that only the Daddy's old cronies should serve GWB?

"I completely disagree with your assessment of GWB as a "horrible communicator and a horrible leader". He has done a magnificent job through very difficult times. "

Obviously! You're behaving like a hurt liberal. He can't communicate worth a darn. He stutters, hem and haws - even when announcing the giving up of Rumsfeld to make the Demoncrats happy. Bush is a disaster.

"You regret helping to elect Bush? Why? You would much rather have had Al. Gore or John Kerry as President? Your taxes raised rather than lowered? An immediate surrender to the islamists rather than 6 years of fighting them? Bill Clinton and friends on the U.S. Supreme Court and in all the lower courts?"

My complaints about Bush should tell you WHY I am disgusted with Bush and why i regret doing ANYTHING to help elect him twice. I will be looking more closely at Independents. Surely you are not so blind to not know that there are other parties out there. We really don't know what the Supreme Court will bring. Thankfully Bush's FIRST CHOICE of Harriet Milers did NOT happen - another disaster that was thankfully avoided. What na IDIOT, Bush is - Harriet Miers? Good grief!

"I certainly don't think that the GOP 'sat on its laurels' for this election. I saw a lot of hard working people putting in a lot of extremely good effort. One of the stars of the campaign was George Bush. He was out there every day pushing our position. He did a great job of explaining it too."

Apparently you don't THINK. You FEEL. Yes, there will always be blind sighted partisans trying to spin disastrous people and supporting them. Sure George was pushing his neocon positions. Apparently YOU like those positions. Good for you. Rejoice now that the Demoncrats have BOTH the HOUSE and the SENATE and forced Rumsfeld out of his position. Be happy!!!

Here's a guy that properly expresses just SOME of my sentiments. You're out of step with reality.

Like many Americans, I’m really angry. It was bad enough to watch Republicans fall like dominoes this week. Hearing liberal Democrats claim that the election was all about the war when they didn’t offer a single alternative plan was infuriating.

But receiving the knock-out punch of Donald Rumsfeld being fired the day after the Democratic Party windfall election is making a lot of us about as mad as we’ve been in a long, long time.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld listens to a question Friday, Sept. 29, 2006, in Portoroz, Slovenia. President Bush says Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is stepping down and former CIA Director Robert Gates will take over at the Pentagon and in prosecuting the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) I’m doing my best to try and understand what message my president is trying to send us. Last week, he told reporters that the Defense Secretary would be in place until the very final day of the president’s term. Turns out, that wasn’t true at all – we now know that President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld made the decision “a few weeks ago.” Yesterday, the president admitted to lying to the reporters with a mischievous grin. While I’m not going to shed any tears for some Associated Press reporter being given wrong information, I wonder why a simple “no comment” wouldn’t have been a better answer last week. At least we would have been spared watching this honorable man try and explain why he didn’t tell the truth.

And I suppose people can understand how reluctant the president was to appear to make Rumseld’s dismissal look like a political move. But isn’t firing him the day after the mid-term election just as political? Let’s face it; President Bush is giving Democrats just what they demanded: Don Rumsfeld’s head on a platter.

It’s disgusting.

I guess I just don’t understand politics. I try too hard to establish right from wrong. I want to hold true to my values and principles. I don’t understand why President Bush or Karl Rove would give a rat’s rear end about what Democrats would think about the decision to go in another direction with the Secretary of Defense.

And here’s the reason for my anger: If the decision to remove Rumsfeld came a few weeks ago, I wonder how many Republicans would have been able to hold on to their jobs if he had left then?

Every single poll suggested that the GOP would lose the House and maybe the Senate. They were right. As this campaign season was nearing the election, our president decided it was time for another Defense Secretary. Fine. So how about throwing a lifeline to George Allen or Rick Santorum? If this election was, indeed, about America’s dissatisfaction with the direction of the war, don’t you think that a number of these razor-thin victories by Democrats might have gone the other way if Rumsfeld had stepped down a few weeks ago?

Of course they would have. It couldn’t have hurt. Instead, we’re now left with a bunch of good Republicans like J.D. Hayworth being voted out of office and Rumsfeld being sent packing the day after the mid-term anyway.

I support and admire George W. Bush. I support this war and frankly, don’t think the mid-term was about dissatisfaction with this effort. Conservatives feel abandoned over issues like illegal immigration and out-of-control spending.

And I feel abandoned by my party when I see a defense secretary thrown out to the curb the day after the Democrats’ “thumping.”

We all worked too hard during this campaign season to see this happen and not feel angry. The stakes are high, the downside too great.

Now we’ll be treated to a couple of years of gloating Democrats who will raise our taxes, give amnesty to illegals, and, God forbid, wave the white flag of surrender in Iraq.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld listens to a question Friday, Sept. 29, 2006, in Portoroz, Slovenia. President Bush says Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is stepping down and former CIA Director Robert Gates will take over at the Pentagon and in prosecuting the war in Iraq. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) I know that many of my colleagues are putting up a brave front. They’re spinning this by suggesting that this will all energize the base. Trust me; what they’re saying privately is not quite what they’re saying publicly.

And I, for one, won’t play that game.

We blew it. And I’m furious.

I know I’m not alone.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=a_double_thumping&ns=MikeGallagher&dt=11/10/2006&page=1

No, Mike Gallagher, you're not alone. Anyone with ANY sense can see this.

If you can't see the obvious, there is NO POINT in continuing this exchange. Rejoice in the victory of the Demoncrats. Spin it any way you like - whatever makes you FEEEWWWLLLL good!