El President is giving me moonbat fever (FR mentioned!)

Boston Herald ^ | 6/3/07 | Howie Carr

[EverOnward]

"This is not immigration reform. It is the deliberate introduction of chaos into American life and there will be no 'cost benefit.'"

You are very perceptive. Who will benefit most by this chaos and in what way will they benefit?

[chrisser]

Its sad because I really like the President and admire him on many things.

Like many here, I also am absolutely opposed to the President's immigration policy choice.

However, I admire George Bush the man. Yes, I disagree with him on many of his political and policy decisions. Frankly, I don't understand a lot of them.

That said, I am grateful he was President on 9/11, and we really got some fantastic SC judges under his watch - better than I had even hoped for.

His tax cuts, although not going far enough or long enough, have produced pretty remarkable dividends for the economy.

I'd like to think he could have done more had we put a solid conservative Republican majority into the Congress for part of one of his terms. Someone with b@lls like Delay heading both houses, along with a conservative majority, might have tempered the President's liberal-leaning tendencies.

I don't regret my vote - the alternatives both times were far, far worse for the country.

I'm disappointed with both the President and the party right now. IMHO, the best course of action (other than making our feelings known to our representatives) is to concentrate on getting solid, conservative representatives and a president to match elected in 08 so we can reverse some of these mistakes as quickly as possible. And along those lines, if we don't get our spending under control, we're not going to be able to secure our borders, or those of any other country, in the not-too-distant future.

[LadyNavyVet]

I filed my final divorce papers when Jorge said those of us opposing amnesty didn’t want to do what’s right for America. I wore the uniform of my country for many more years than Jorge did, and in more dangerous places. HOW DARE HE say I don’t want what’s best for America?

I won’t vote for him or any other RINO for dog catcher! I can hardly believe I was so misled.

[chrisser]

Frankly, I don't understand a lot of them

I should say, that by this I don't mean I don't understand the policy, but rather that I don't understand why he sometimes chooses the policies that he does.

[sgtyork]

And shame on the FBI and our political leaders for not having statistics about illegal alien crime to help us make this decision.

[Liz]

Do you have Bush Derangement Syndrome?

Symptoms (courtesy of Howie Carr):

(1) You see Dick Cheney and immediately think “neo-con chicken hawk” and "yeah sure, those are roses liberated Iraquis are throwing at the feet of US soldiers.....not IED's."

(2) You see Homeland/Secy Michael Chertoff and you think “bearded little weasel.”

(3) You see Kenny Mehlman and Lindsay Graham and think (&*$^&$^&# expletives deleted).

BDS infection spreads every time Bush goes out to the Rose Garden and calls his own voters “vigilantes.”

[mad_as_he$$]

Just ask any cop who is responsible for violent crime.

[ZULU]

“OK, we got two good Supreme Court appointments, but one of them was over the objections of the inept, tongue-tied goober.”

Great one!!!

We have all been Bush-wacked. NO MORE BUSHES!!!!! EVER!!!

[wgflyer]

The votes are in the middle and you need them to win.

We see the results of compromised, watered down, conservatism. We don’t need to win with such candidates. Better to let the libs screw it up so badly that a real conservative can get those “middle” voters. I will no longer vote for the “lesser of evils”. It makes me feel dirty. I want a conservative leader, not a compromiser, and no socialists need apply.

[Recovering Hermit]

I don’t even know what to call him anymore.

Burned out would be my guess.

It happens.

[Mo1]

I don’t support this immigration bill and think the President is wrong on this issue

But to be compared to the loons over at the DU and Daily Kos and saying we have BSD ??

Well that is over the top and insulting

[blam]

"We have all been Bush-wacked. NO MORE BUSHES!!!!! EVER!!!"

DITTO.

[dforest]

Do you have Bush Derangement Syndrome?

Howie nailed this one.

Seems like the infection has spread nationwide.

Get ready for the Bushwhackers. Do you have you insult armor on yet?

[raybbr]

And shame on the FBI and our political leaders for not having statistics about illegal alien crime to help us make this decision.

Excellent point. They probably have the stats but are not allowed to reveal them.

[RetiredArmy]

My BDS is very deep. There’s nothing El Presidente Jorge could do to regain my trust at this point. If he were to announce that he was abandoning the Immigration bill today, I still would never ever trust him again, and I still would never vote for any member of his family for anything (I voted for Jeb 3 times and would have voted for him again).

Bush has done even worse on me. I not only do not and will NEVER trust him again, but he and his RINOcrat party caused me to not renew my membership in the weak spine party, and I will vote now for a conservative. Whether that conservative has a real chance of winning or not. I am tired of voting for lying, leftist's kinds, who lie and rely on fear for our votes. I am tired of voting for republicans, simply as a means of not letting a dimocrat get in. The damage Bush has done to the conservative movement is as bad as what a dim president would do to the country, so not much difference. He has caused such a split in the party, that I doubt they can win the next dog catcher's election. Bush has been a total waste and total bust. He was a waste of 8 years of hope. 8 years of hope gone down the drain. Klinton lost the congress under his watch. Bush has equaled him. Bush lost the congress, the nation, the conservative movement, the people, and ME under his watch. He is a bust. I now sadly have to agree that he is a below average president. Maybe as low as Carter. George W. Bush, you simply are not my president any more. I no longer support nor follow you. I DO NOT TRUST YOU WITH MY LIFE AND MORE THAN THAT, I DO NOT TRUST YOU WITH MY COUNTRY.

[weef]

Wow - perfectly said, exactly what I’m thinking. Probably exactly what most conservatives are thinking right about now.

[BurtSB]

Exactly , the dirty little secret is Jorge and Fox want a North American union to solve the corrupt and out of control Mexican gov’t.Jorge is loyal only to the Bush party and there cronies .I wish he would resign before he destroys the RNC.

[TommyDale]

"Do you have Bush Derangement Syndrome?"

I do confess that I suffer from symptoms #2 and #3. I wouldn't call that deranged, however. The "deranged" are those Bush advisors who keep telling him that the GOP doesn't need the support of the conservatives any longer.

[KC_Conspirator]

I feel the same way. I have seen this coming since the 2004 election; where Bush the GOP won a resounding mandate and then went out and basically did nothing for the next 2 years, squandering their advantage, as Peggy Noonan put it.

[alicewonders]

The river of history takes curious turns doesn't it? 9/11 was something which rallied us as a nation because of the obvious threat to us all. I haven't wavered on supporting President Bush because of it. But, curiously, Republicans lost some close elections in 2006, and just as curiously, most of them quickly conceded. Why? Strange is it not, that Republicans were targeted for prosecutions more so than Democrats before the elections? Strange is it not, that so soon after the elections, this abomination is being forced upon us? And now conveniently, we may not have enough Republicans to stand up against a President who says the citizens of this nation: “don’t want to do what’s right for America.” What a horrid, ghastly thing to say!

I'm just now reading this thread & your comment really stood out to me. I still have a feeling in the pit of my stomach that there was something very wrong with the last election. Good conservatives losing, rolling over & playing dead. Bush's unfathomable silence when some were unfairly targeted by biased prosecutors. Some of the best conservative candidates (that, as you said - would have been the ones to come out loudly against this whole amnesty debacle) lost in 2006. It's almost like Bush & Co. (otherwise known as the Globalist Elite) was manipulating it all along.

It's crazy to think about it that way, but there are a lot of things that don't add up to me.