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.
Spot on. I really disagree with a lot of what Bush did. But over all, he was a relatively moderate to liberal president who worked both sides of the fence. While I disagree with him on particular policy issues -- amnesty, prescription benefits, bailouts -- I never once suspected that he was deliberately attempting to destroy this country for the purpose of maintaining himself in power in perpetuity.
The left, on the other hand, has done everything it can to undermine this country and destroy it. Every time I hear some liberal pol yak about gun control, there is no question in my mind that they are doing so because they know that it undermines personal responsibility, enables the criminal class and the cops to keep the legitimate citizenry under heel and under control through fear and intimidation, and enables the dems to call for ever more government spending on police and security. Gosh, that's worked so well for Detroit, which is now locked in a perpetual 3d world dictatorship, that we should expand the program nationally.
The left is mentally unhinged, but that doesn't mean they don't have a will to power. In fact, like most adolescents, they have a strong will to power coupled with a total lack of self control.
It began during the 2000 campaign against Kerry and continued for eight years. Mr. Bush was personally attacked at every opportunity.
I used to pay attention to how long it would take liberal co-workers to begin the ad hominem attacks on Bush for anything and everything (even his daughter's choices of college). It averaged about three sentences before they advised that it was "all Bush's fault." The hatred - by some - was unnerving. Others seemed to just parrot the Starbuck's, NYU, MSNBC, Catie Courec talking points. It was easier than listening, thinking, and developing an opinion.
Personally, I lost my enthusiasm to defend Mr. Bush with the illegal alien issue. The President is charged with upholding the law. If he does not like a law, he is to take actions to change it, not ignore it. (Unless, of course, it is the law requiring me to give so much of what I earn to the government as taxes. I would not mind that one being ignored.) Bush refused to enforce the immigration laws, and lost my respect and trust.
The media is masterful at defining people, they defined the Bush administration as incompetent, evil etc. The MSM will continue to praise Obamba until the Daily Kos crew get tired of him.
The Founding Fathers never imagined this.