The Left think they run this country. They think they can say anything. They think that anyone disagrees with them has violated some notion of civilized debate. I wonder where they got these crazy ideas?
The type of speech you have here is pretty good. It would be nice to begin a presidency with that kind of speech, rather than end one with it.
That might have saved him from Conservatives turning on him — provided he hadn’t stabbed us in the back on immigration — but I doubt it would have reduced the Left’s stridency.
Maybe they have been encouraged by his attempts to placate them, but it’s been “Bush’s Fault !” pretty much since 2000 without let-up.
Fred Thompson talks this way NOW in his essays, but it remains to be seen if he’ll continue such frankness through his entire campaign and into the Whitehouse. Duncan Hunter is a bit more polite, and that may have something to do with the fact that he is a declared candidate and has appeared in televised debates while Fred hasn’t.