Wartime President Only! Sissies Need Not Apply

worldnetdaily.com ^ | December 27, 2007 | Benjamin Shapiro

[kellynla]

On May 7 and May 8, 1945, the Nazis surrendered to the Allies in Europe. The single man more responsible for that surrender than anyone else was British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Less than two months later, the British populace voted Churchill out of office.

Clement Atlee, Churchill's successor, ran on a platform of cradle-to-grave government care. The war was over. Britain had survived. British voters refocused on domestic matters. Having experienced the hardship of war, they now sought the comfort of government-provided economic security. Churchill was out on his ear because the Allies won World War II.

The same may hold true in the 2008 election. President George W. Bush has survived the unremitting attacks of his opponents, largely on the strength of his consistent and unwavering commitment to muscular national defense. Counter-intuitively, this strategy paid off best politically while the war in Iraq was controversial. Bush's enemies took the position that America was bound to lose in Iraq and ought to pull out as soon as possible; Bush took the position that America could win the peace just as it had won the war. By positioning themselves as advocates of American defeat, Bush's opponents handed him the 2004 election.

Today, the Bush administration has pulled the Iraq situation from the fire. Gen. David Petreaus has led a remarkable restoration of security in Iraq. The troop surge has dramatically lowered violence, providing a powerful rebuke to the anti-Bush administration naysayers.

[kellynla]

Bill Kristol on Fox News Sunday 12/23/2007

KRISTOL: A deadlock Republican convention turns to the most qualified Republican of them all to be president on the fifth ballot, Dick Cheney.

And he wins in a landslide in November.

WALLACE: And his slogan is no more Mr. Nice Guy, huh?

KRISTOL: Yeah. Right. Bush was too compassionate, let's forget about all that.

Contrary to Fred, I think Republicans win in November. And if it's not Dick Cheney, McCain-Romney, McCain-Lieberman. There are some very good Republican tickets.

[xzins]

I agree with Kristol

Dick Cheney is the most qualified of them all.

[doug from upland]

I wish I was as confident, Kelly. Unfortunately, there will be massive vote fraud and enormous money provided by Soros, et al to get out the vote. I believe that we are going to see an unprecedented number of votes cast this time, perhaps 5 million of which will be from young airhead women who have no idea that Hillary is a rape enabler.

[RightWhale]

There’s plenty more where that came from. We know we need to have a worst-case President but it is sure hard to pick them out when everybody is pretending to be so civil.

[Grampa Dave]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/gop/1944826/posts

Fred Thompson on Benazir Bhutto assassination (Fox Interview)
Fred08 ^ | December 27, 2007

Posted on 12/27/2007 11:14:53 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

HARRIS FAULKNER : Senator, your reaction, first, to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

FRED THOMPSON : It is a tragedy, of course. It reminds us that things can happen in faraway places of the world that can affect the United States. I think this should be of great concern to us. It is almost a perfect storm in a very bad sense because two forces are operating against each other that are both desirable. One is democracy: they were making progress in that regard in that country. Former prime minister Bhutto was an important part of that process. But the other is stability. Pakistan is a nuclear country, and we cannot afford to let nukes fall into the hands of dangerous Muslim radicals. We are hoping those two things can be balanced out. We can see the continued progress toward a democratic society but also maintain stability in the country, which seems to be very much in doubt right now.

FAULKNER: I know you are running for the White House, so I don’t want to put you in a position to second guess the president. But I’m interested in your opinion. President Bush is due to talk with Pervez Musharraf shortly. What do you anticipate that conversation should be like?

THOMPSON: Those two things that I mention probably would be high on the agenda. What could be done to not impose martial law, to not crack down, but be mindful of the fact that there are radical elements in that country, and perhaps even within the government, that would like to see instability and chaos and see those weapons fall into the wrong hands. This is part of a bigger problem. We need to understand that this is not a criminal investigation any more - so we find the bad guys and bring them to justice - it’s a war.

This proves again the mindset of the radical elements that we are dealing with. We are seeing this all across Northern Africa and various places. We’re seeing it across the Middle East and in parts of Asia including Indonesia and other places. We have to come to terms with that and do the things necessary to prevail. One of the things we need to be talking about is what Musharraf can do, additionally, to crack down on the Taliban. I think they have been insufficient in that respect.

FAULKNER : Taliban also supporters of al Qaeda in that country. Pakistan has been an important ally in the war on terror, so have do you walk that line?

THOMPSON: You just walk it. No one said it has been easy and simple. Pakistan has never been easy or simple. I had a chance a few years ago to talk to Musharraf before things got quite as complex as they are now. But it has always been an important part of the world. They’re next door to India. They’ve had a crisis after crisis with regard to them. They’re next door to Afghanistan, and they’re important to us. They’ve been helpful to us. But we’ re going to have to walk that line between democracy on the one hand and stability on the other. But I think it’s possible.

[sanchmo]

America cannot afford to take its eye off the foreign-policy ball

something tells me that today's events will hlep refocus the voters on foreign matters once again.

[phillyfanatic]

Actually, now with the Pak. horror, Rudy and John will slowly rise again. National security has to be the first priority of our Commander in Chief, not domestic socialism, pacifism and nice folksy peace talks.

[phillyfanatic]

Actually, now with the Pak. horror, Rudy and John will slowly rise again. National security has to be the first priority of our Commander in Chief, not domestic socialism, pacifism and nice folksy peace talks.

[MHGinTN]

If the majority of voters were rational, you might be right about refocusing on foreign policy necessities. But the DNC and their leftist liberal post-modernist deconstruction of this nation has reached such a state of disconnecting people from reality that a Soros/clintonian liberal deceit program is more powerful in focusing the voters. Our nation is in grave danger of suicide via ballot.

[Ouderkirk]

I think that this whole situation does not bode well for the democRATS.

From the perspective of the democRATS how can they spin this development to reflect badly on Bush and the USA?

Think on that one for a while. I sure that the ‘RATS will come up with something that will strain credulity...what’s it going to be?

[Issaquahking]

There are some very good Republican tickets

What I don't get, is the extreme shut out of Duncan Hunter. He's the only one (besides McCain) who has war time experience on the ground! Guys like jule puke-on-me were busy getting deferments for inportant reasons - like being a law clerk! Hey America, Wake up, lots of the candidates talk tough...see which ones that are making the talk, have walked the walk....

[Issaquahking]

jule puke-on-me = Rudy for those in Rio Linda

[Rick.Donaldson]

But the DNC and their leftist liberal post-modernist deconstruction of this nation has reached such a state of disconnecting people from reality that a Soros/clintonian liberal deceit program is more powerful in focusing the voters.

That was well stated, and SOOOOO true. I can’t understand this “sensitivity to polls” lately. I can’t even understand the sensitivity to illegal immigrants though.

[kellynla]

I don’t have an answer for you.

I like Hunter myself but he hasn’t been able to get above 4% in the polls. But of course, I was outraged when the American electorate elected and reelected a three-time draft dodger to be POTUS. I’m sure my father, a WWI Dough-Boy, rolled over in his grave more than once on that one.

you figure it out...

[Dumb_Ox]

Well, considering the borders are still unsecure, I think it's safe to say that Bush isn't a wartime president, either.

Has Bush ever made a personal appeal to young men to join the military? His post-9/11 call for people to continue shopping has deafened me to a lot of what he says.

[kellynla]

“Well, considering the borders are still unsecure, I think it’s safe to say that Bush isn’t a wartime president, either.”

I agree.

“Has Bush ever made a personal appeal to young men to join the military? His post-9/11 call for people to continue shopping has deafened me to a lot of what he says.”

“America is not at war. The Marine Corps is at war; America is at the mall.”
Anonymous

[BerryDingle]

Unfortunately, there will be massive vote fraud and enormous money provided by Soros, et al to get out the vote.

So true, in fact, I'm afraid this coming election, massive vote fraud will be almost the norm for most of the nation. I remember and article from a past election where the voting district "suspected something was amiss" when they tallied 10,000 more votes than the entire population in the district. One can only hope Bush stays on top of this and fires some more attorneys and get more past voter fraud investigations rolling. You're spot on, on this one. Hillbillary inc. has a lot of their eggs in the voter fraud basket.

[doug from upland]

The Dems will find a way to get all registered voters to vote in certain areas, even if they are not there.

http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:S8vtO1jyF8YJ:www.fandm.edu/x3791.xml+philadelphia+voter+turnout+more+than+registered+voters&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us

As expected, Motor Voter did create a dramatic increase in voter registration. Almost two million new voters registered in the state between 1995 and 2000, while the voting age population of the state changed very little. In some areas there are now more registered voters than there are people eligible to vote. In Allegheny County, for instances, 18 municipalities have more registered voters than voting age adults. Philadelphia is the best example of what might be termed “ registration inflation”. There, the number of voter registrations jumped 24 percent from 850,000 to almost 1,050,000 since 1995 - while the city’s population was declining about 12% from 1,121,000 to slightly more than one million.

[phillyfanatic]

Already the Left, Colmes on TV tonight, Hitchens, some lefty blogs are saying that Bush ‘pushed’ Bhutto on Pak. and then pushed Al Q to kill her with his arrogance. It is simply chaos in the Dem philosophy of life. They see nor hear any evil except that America is the cause of the world’s ills. It is hateful and a policy of appeasement. Voters are so caught up in MTV, Spears’ pregnancies, fads, welfare-health and wussy good feeling politics that they miss the seriousness of protecting the nation. Without national security in hand, none of the domestic ideals mean anything. That should point to Rudy, Fred, maybe John and perhaps Mitt but not Huck. Then make sure Hunter is our SECDEF or STATE, if a Pub wins in ‘08.

[Ouderkirk]

Bush ‘pushed’ Bhutto on Pak. and then pushed Al Q to kill her with his arrogance.

This is exactly what the left always says...So in effect it's Bush's fault. How can you reason with an idiot savant? No matter what happens anywhere in the world, it's Bush's fault. (Sigh) It just becomes so tiresome.