Posted on 01/26/2008 5:57:27 AM PST by fightinJAG
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On the pundit civil wars, Rush Limbaugh declared on the radio this week, "I'm here to tell you, if either of these two guys [Mr. McCain or Mike Huckabee] get the nomination, it's going to destroy the Republican Party. It's going to change it forever, be the end of it!"
This is absurd. George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.
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How long are we going to blame Bush?
You left out the universe
His speeches in 2000 were Liberalism as well. I was very surprising how many Freepers never caught on to it. It was like seeing Cybok in the Star Trek Movie. Bush like Poppy is a pro-China and a So Called Free Trader at the expense of our national security and sovereignty Globalist Liberal. Pay no attention to his W.O.T. wag the dog diversion of over six years he has used to hide that fact.
Is that illegal?
Is what illegal, telling people that willard set his company up off shore to avoid taxes? All true loyal Americans do that.
Most would if they could afford the lawyers fee. Any legal way to avoid confiscatory taxes is okay with me.
blaming is like lieing.It’s easier than actual work
The next one was waiting all those years to go back in.
And not using the most legitimate argument.
The war ending was contingent on Saddam obeying the UN sanctions.
He broke them over and over again and we waited what, 12 years?
And then the Dems put off going in long enough for Saddam to scrub the country. WMD was the wrong reason even though legitimate. The sanctions broken were reason enough.
Now who's fault was that? If he was using our money then we gave it to him. That was a Poppy creation. It may surprise you to know it was Bush Mentor Gerald Ford who actually gave terrorism the green light. Up till then if someone became a problem yo our security we quietly took them out. No chest pounding moron running around D.C. for almost a year saying Saddam or whoever were coming to get you. OK now if giving them money was wrong which I think it was from the git go then how much more so is nation building at our expense?
If our troops are sent in to a nation for war then they should have a sole military objective to destroy that nation or fight until unconditional surrender and the nation is a threat no more. Thanks to Bush the new Iraq will be far more a threat to us than Saddam ever was before it's all over as they will have modern weapon technology paid for again by guess who?
The war in Iraq wasn't about the W.O.T. it was on behalf of Sauds and is all about oil. We didn't go after any other nation linked to 911. We had more reason to go after Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and a few others than Iraq.
There are better and much more efficient ways to deal with terrorism than Bush Doctrines. The first one being find new friends. The second one is using Letters of Marque or Reprisals to hire locals who don't stick out like sore thumbs to get the job done.
As to your first statement, I believe that to be true.
And the second statement yes.
Anyone that is not strong in their Christian faith are the main targets, Baptist and all other denominations.
Same with JW’s.
I can remember just reading about him getting a national show. Time or Newsweek. My station carried it from the start and work almost stopped for days. Everything he said, we had other than ourselves, never heard any major media type say.
I just think what has happened to him is natural. He doesn’t seem as edgy, he’s older, why should he change? But I find him stale now, boring.
Also, I’ve moved on too. The Internet has given me the ability to call up writers and thinkers, dead and alive as I please.
"We’ll be praying for Mitt to become a Christian. I won’t post lies because he’s a Mormon. But I will pray he becomes a Christian"
Bttt.
And let's not forget that this axiom (because it's true), must be added into the mix: "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned".
Noonan has _felt scorned by GWB_ for a long time. She has never forgiven him for not choosing her as his speech writer, and the grudge she's been carrying is evident in many of her columns. She can't hide it.
I'll be happy to dub you as the resident expert and go-to guy when it comes to what constitutes "a failure".
The problem is that the two parties have become exclusively national and international. That is, the Democrats agenda is focused almost entirely on national issues, the Republicans, on international affairs.
At the extreme, the parties are losing the ability to address the others focus at all. Democrats are astoundingly naive in international affairs, and Republicans have been reduced to just a few standard issues in domestic policy that they hope will assure their reelection.
During GW Bush’s first term, he used a presidential philosophy not seen since the latter half of the 19th Century, that it is the President’s job to conduct foreign affairs, and the running of the country should be left up to congress. Which resulted in disaster, when the Republican congress ran wild with abandon. His contribution to domestic policies were “presidential signing statements”, an unconstitutional artifact.
Yet I distinguish this from the Contract With America, precisely because it breaks up the status quo. It is a tool of candidates, not incumbents, which is why when a CWA II was proposed, it was greeted with horror by incumbents, who put their foot down and said not again.
If the Republicans had each subsequent election created a new CWA, Washington by now would be a very different place.
Congressmen and senators do not like to have their feet held to the fire, when they have broken promises they made. So this is precisely what must be done.
“George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.”
Best part of the piece.
I guess we are all slow learners then, particularly the American sheeple.
BTTT!!
BTTT for everything you said.
Please share some of the better items you've found.
I'm like you. I'm listening less and less to talk radio or as I refer to it, the Jaw Bone Meida. I'm simply sick of hearing the same stuff over and over again.
Rush antagonizes the Drive By Media for their shortcomings. IMHO, the Jaw Bone Media, and it's more than just Rush, is doing almost as much damage as the Drive By.
BTTT! You’re on a roll.
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