The Right Percentage

I’d like to stand up for the most spat-upon minority group in the United States right now—the “thirty percenters.”

Like smokers and WASPs, those who continue to support President Bush are considered fair game for public ridicule. “Thirty percenter” is a slur used to describe those regarded by the left as ignorant cretins because they do not share the view that Bush is the worst President to ever set foot in the White House.

While I’m disillusioned with Bush, who has (in my estimation) failed to match Ronald Reagan’s record of stellar achievement in Washington, I am not so arrogant as to believe that my view of Bush should be universal. After all, those who continue to stand by Bush have good reason to do so.

“Thirty percenters” continue to embrace Bush for a number of reasons, many of which have to do with his performance during his first term. When they see Bush, they remember the man who stood in the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 14, 2001, and declared that the people who murdered three thousand Americans three days earlier would be brought to justice. They remember the man who vowed to dismantle the “Axis of Evil” in 2002. They remember the man who cleaned up the literal and figurative mess left behind by the Clinton administration.

“Progressives” often accuse conservatives of lacking tolerance, but where is their tolerance for those who maintain a positive view of Bush? Can they not accept that some people still like the guy?

The fact that Dems don’t like Bush is neither here nor there. They don’t like any of us. So their opinion really doesn’t mean much.

And, think about it, who do they like? Kerry, Gore, Clinton?

Seriously.

Someone who thinks Gore is an intellectual giant, who didn’t notice that Kerry is a fraud, who didn’t notice that the Clintons are grifters, really, how much is their opinion about anything worth? Would you ask someone like that for advice on the stock market? About philosophical issues of great import? Economics? How to get crabgrass out of your lawn?

These are people who think the government can control the weather, for pete’s sake.

So the only opinions about Bush that matter, to me at least, are the opinions of other people with a brain. Bush’s numbers are low because Republicans are mad at him, and Repubs are mad at him because he’s too much like a Democrat. When he acts like a Repub, and stands up for what we believe in, we love the guy. When he tries to govern from the “center”, when he reaches across the aisle and tries to be a “kinder gentler” Repub, his numbers drop like a rock.

Dems think his low numbers mean people like them, but it couldn’t be further from the truth.

“I still like Bush and I’m almost always proud to have voted for the man twice. That pride is tempered, however, by the nagging feeling that much of the past seven years was squandered because Bush just never seemed to have the fight to rub a hockey glove full of snow in the scumbag Democrats’ sickening faces.”

I agree with that, mostly. I’m also holding his seeming inability to stand up for American national sovereignty and control of our own borders against him.

But his inability to confront the betrayers, seems to me, to be built into our current system. The meme makers of the msm control the message to too large an extent. Nothing said can’t be twisted to fit their own agenda. We’ve all seen it happen too many times to pretend it doesn’t happen.

Imo, we’re about where we were in the mid 1850s. There’s a wound in our society that will not be closed up and healed without the harsher kinds of contest.

We are, in every way that matters, a house divided. So deeply divided that the nation appears psychizophrenic.

I do wonder if a calculated decision was made to put off the looming domestic upheaval for as long as possible so that the foreign enemy could be better kept out of it, once it does break loose.

Then again ,maybe, he is just another semi-libtard who’s not caught a clue on that issue.

Or, maybe, my deep seated hatred of the leftards has colored my opinion too deeply and things aren’t all that bad.

"That pride is tempered, however, by the nagging feeling that much of the past seven years was squandered because Bush just never seemed to have the fight to rub a hockey glove full of snow in the scumbag Democrats' sickening faces."

He did not do so because: "9/11 changed everything".

Stop for a moment, reflect deeply, recall the frame of mind that the country was in on and after 9/12. Recall the importance of defending ourselves against further, certain, AQ attacks and the perceived difficulty of defeating AQ in a generation spanning battle that would run many decades into the future. Recall the common fear that the masses of the ME would rise up in strong support of Bin Laden and his goals. DON'T LET THE 'Bush hating' mass media alter your memory of where we were on 9/12!!!

Bush shared these concerns. He made the WOT his primary goal. He avoided confrontation with the left because he knew from his life experience that he would need all the good will and votes he could muster to continue the WOT during bad times. (Recall some of the close Congressional votes on Iraq. Recall the traditional loss of seats in a mid-term election. Recall the weak Republican leadership in the Senate and House.)

Coalition victory in the WOT is close, much closer than anyone would have believed on 9/12 (even W). The people of the ME saw the true AQ, in Iraq. Bin Laden has lost most of his appeal and power (absent the diehards that still threaten us with nuclear terrorist attack). He shares the human imperfection of our past wartime leaders; imperfections and errors that following generations cannot recall without a deep reading of history and which the media ignore when the President is on the right of the political spectrum. But George W. Bush, especially after having "found his General", has achieved goals in the WOT that far surpass anything anyone thought possible on 9/12. Yes, this was at the cost of less attention to Conservative legislative progress. But the overriding goals of keeping our country safe and defeating AQ are what is really important - to us today and from a historical perspective. In these goals "W" has been successful beyond the "9/12" dreams of almost everyone. That's why the Left hates him. That's why the left-wing media has worked overtime to get his popularity ratings as low as possible. The MSM is now writing for history, trying to skew the historical perspective. Remember how, in our backwards view, we tend to ignore the wartime errors and misjudgements of leaders and focus on the final result? People in the future will review President George W. Bush the same way. And, despite the efforts of the MSM [to which even Freepers succumb], "History" will applaud his concentration on the overwhelmingly major issues of protecting the country and defeating AQ, recognize his "success in the WOT", and reflect positively on the effect of his bringing a democratic election to the ME.

DON'T LET THE 'Bush hating' mass media alter your memory of where we were on 9/12!!!

Did you just read my Post (#8) above? Are you already thinking of a critical reply?

Please, before you Post, reflect on this statement, and please acknowledge or reflect on it in your reply: Stop for a moment, reflect deeply, recall the frame of mind that the country was in on and after 9/12. Recall the importance of defending ourselves against further, certain, AQ attacks and the perceived difficulty of defeating AQ in a generation spanning battle that would run many decades into the future. Recall the common fear that the masses of the ME would rise up in strong support of Bin Laden and his goals.

Bush successes: The overall WoT, Iraq, Afghanistan, the opening of India, reorganization and modernization of the military, tax cuts, Homeland Security federal reorganization, artificially low dollar, good federal bench appointments.

Bush failures: Not enforcing Republican party discipline, immigration reform, not accomplishing intelligence agency reform, market permissiveness, administration by Presidential signing statement, poor choices for attorney general, embracing ethanol and man made global warming theories, FTAA, and not busting business oligopolies.

TBD: Iran, stock market, Iraq, Afghanistan and WoT, presidential succession, and ability to support and train Jeb Bush for a future presidential run.

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