Rs ducked out on Prs. Bush b/c he was a disaster who squandered our majority, spent like a drunken sailor, mishandled Iraq, etc.
Nothing he did was worth the pain of delivering this country to Pelosi, Reid and Hussein.
This is among the most inane posts I’ve ever read on FR. The Marxist Onada will never consider that he might even be remotely treated like Bush in the Media. It unabashedly shills for demrats and will continue to do so no matter how many times or how blatantly he screws up.
Instead of wasting time lamenting how Bush was treated conservatives ought to be thinking and writing about how to take our country back.
Well I guess its the same calm demeanor that prevented him from defending himself in the face of such brutality.
No, he did have to stand jaw to jowl with the haters but he could/should have done more to defend his positions. He didn’t have a problem doing so when we went into Iraq.
Now we are stuck with the clown prince and his merry minions.
We will never get back our country.
I’d like to hear of certain presidential pardons getting announced today...
What is truly breathtaking is that it is very common to see posts at DU saying, “I’m tired of playing nice,” and “Why do Dems always take the high road? It’s time to get dirty.” Seriously.
Excellent article. The hatred against President Bush by liberals and few on the right was devilish to say the least. This hatred has way bypassed all the norms of political disagreements with the President and became as closer as it gets to a bloodless coup d’etat against the President of the Republic. I am afraid that next time the treasonous left may call for a violent coup d’etat to remove a future President that they do not want.
This is an excellent article and 100% correct. It only took post number 2 to bring out the Bush haters here on FR. I hope the so called conservatives here enjoy the next 4 years. Let’s see if they can conjure up the hatred for Obama as they did for Bush.
Yes GWB regularly invited Hannity, Rush and others to the White House to stay in their good graces. This is why I am having trouble believing talk radio hosts again .Hannity was the worse of the two, with a sickening McCain sales pitch, and for the GM bailout. We were regularly told that deficits (massive spending, growth in government) didn't matter, tax cuts were the solution to everything, as repeated in McCain's campaign. (I call that Kemp-o-nomics) Now as Hannity tries to go after Obama for socialism he looks pathetic. Democrats have co-opted many talking points. I saw Pelosi saying her stimulus plan's massive social spending will create jobs and increase tax revenue. Just like the tax cuts would pay for all the spending bills GWB signed.
I remember when everyone called themselves 'conservative'. But the Bush-worshipers (aka Bush-bots) make me to wonder what conservatism is all about.
Great article. It will be interesting to watch PravdABDNC blowing up their King Hussain balloon to float in front of America. You’ll be able to cut the hypocrisy w/a knife.
Pray for W, America and Our Troops
Dubya grew up with conservatives in West Texas. Unlike his New England snob parents, he was relatively less infected by East Coast notions of Our Due. So how did he let an amoral, unprincipled political tactician like Karl Rove drive a wedge between him and the base Dubya knew so well? Was Rove gay, was that it? (Oliver Stone retails that one.) Were half the people in the upper ranks of the GOP gay? Or did they just not care about any of the social issues less-moneyed conservatives cared about? Schools, f'rinstance. Crusty folks send their children in D.C. to Sidwell Friends School -- Obama and Michelle are following that beaten path -- while people back home struggle with liberal educational cabals trying to contaminate the curriculum with Leftist propaganda and homosexual "get-acquainted" programs.
Ditto spending. He allowed Congress to go nuts without explaining to the People why he wasn't vetoing the pork. He might have been following the Keynesian imperative, as everyone has been doing for over a year now, but he didn't explain his apparent shift in principles or defend his priorities with a principled argument.
Ditto taxes. He cut taxes repeatedly for upper-income earners, even as workers continued to be laid off in good times as well as bad. No explanation to us ...... and who knows, maybe he was intellectually overcome by hustlers and grabbers in Wall Street: He let enough of them into his Administration. (Former Treasury Sec'y John Snow is now heading Cerberus Capital Management, a plutocratic hedge fund that owns a huge chunk of Chrysler -- Chrysler, as in "give us a bailout!" And then of course Henry Paulson was Goldman's CEO before he went to Treasury -- just like Bob Rubin before him. Hello, conflict of interest in scale colossal, anyone?)
The essay is a nice apologetic, but there is just too much ground to cover, and the author doesn't even try to answer a lot of key questions about Bush's political isolation.
The treatment accorded George Bush is a measure of the extent of the decay of our Culture and the pure white hot level of rage on the Left.
The left in fact is terminally enraged. With Obozo in the WH this rage will manifest itself in acts destructive to Law and Order and the Constitution. Hate is cancer of the soul and the Left is gone gone gone. This is their big chance to take over and they’re gonna’ do it with a completeness and speed that will shock.
W was was treated unfairly at first, but then he proved the criticism correct.
The hate by the left will eventually also turn against the b[end] 0[ver] when he does not deliver on his promises. Hate for their own country, hate against anyone that does not agree with them, etc., will work to turn the tide against them.
An excellent article. President Bush is a principled man unaffected (and uninfluenced) by popuylairyt contest. The derision and hatred he received speaks to those who did it, not to the man. The press in general should be ashamed of itself, with few exceptions. The New York Times, whose publication of matters on National importance and security, was and is downright treasonous. If they can’t or won’t prosecute them then I hope they wither and die off, even with ‘what’s his names bailout.’
I’m glad I have no reason to visit New York, or I would certainly be arrested for throwing rocks at the Times front window. Traitorous bat turds.
Calling it hate speech is just another attempt to remove your constitutional rights to a different opinion. I don’t care who says it, are what they say, they have that right.
BDS is like political porn....its addicting.
The left and right will never let him go....he fulfills so many of their fantasies, gets their blood pumping, they get off on the very mention of his name.
For the right-wing this is counterproductive of course....but it is par for the course for us....feeling self righteous at joining left to eat our own, is the ultimate high.
Even more than winning.
The crying, hand wringing and whining from the Bush and big government supporters is endless.
Bush's legacy is Obama.
Gerald Ford said when taking office, "Our long national nightmare is over." I could imagine Obama starting his inaugural address with the same words, except for the current economic mess.
Newt Gingrich was on Greta yesterday talking about how Americans rally around the new President whether they voted for him or not. He must have been asleep the last 8 years, or have amnesia.