A good number of the complaints about Bush are legit, but this one doesn't hold water.
Wrong. This is probably the number one complaint that can be rightly leveled against Bush. He not only failed to use the bully pulpit forcefully for all that was good, but he didn't defend core Republican principles, he didn't defend his poliicies, he didn't defend his people, he didn't defend the smears against him....in short, he chose not to communicate with the country in creative, effective, persistant ways as did FDR, JFK and President Reagan.
Therefore, most of the other and numerous complaints against him SPRUNG FROM the aforementioned....i.e., his refusal to use the bully pulpit to bully, cajole or explain.
He squaundered his golden opportunities at every turn and our party eventually and unceremoniously went down with his ship because of it.
Leni
Really? Show me his great speeches about conservatism. Just one that doesn't use the WOT as its back up. One speech about cutting spending, reducing government and the perils of liberalism. Without the war in Iraq as a backup.