"Look, I know this probably sounds arrogant to say," the president said, "but I redefined the Republican Party."
I'd photoshop some shoes being thrown if I could.
Posted on 09/18/2009 12:51:21 AM PDT by neverdem
Ride rails? Hitchhike?
I think the reason I never made TX/LA/OK is that I was very fond of the Colorado rockies. So even when I took a southern route, I'd cut north before I reached that area. I have kin folk in Alabama and Mississippi, so I made it that close.
When I saw the huge spending Bush was behind, I knew he was no conservative.
We had a GOP Congress and White House for 6 years while the spending rivaled the worst Dimocrats years. Disgraceful squandering of a golden opportunity.
Are you saying it’s not possible to tell the truth about W and what went wrong, and at the same time expose ApORN?
Learn to multitask.
You’re not sure of a thing. What I’d rather have had was to have the man govern like a conservative, which is how he campaigned, instead of governing like a liberal which is what he did. I’d also rather he not destroy the Republican Party and beget us Obama, again, which is what he did.
Personally speaking to be conservative is compassionate. I wondered day one when President Bush used that word to describe his politics gave me pause as to what his intentions were.
I thought from the beginning it was about Amnesty. But the terrorists threw a monkey wrench in making that happen immediately.
Lord McCain second only to algore/lieberman in the big loser political sphere became the proverbial thorn in the President's side. I think lord McCain politically speaking reaped exactly what he sowed over his political career.
The GOP promoted and projected ‘big tent’ republicanism and will forever be labeled as the most expensive TARP of the first decade of the 21st century. President Bush had the harshest words of his presidency to the peoples of his own party over the invasion of illegals.
And look where the party is, hanging out in the dumpster of modern politics looking for a way out! You pissed away all that good faith and support passed down from Reagan, trashed the party's reputation for being fiscally responsible and gave it all away to the demonrats. You should hang your head in shame.
Fortunately you weren't as stupid about defending the country as you are about conservatism.
"Look, I know this probably sounds arrogant to say," the president said, "but I redefined the Republican Party."
I'd photoshop some shoes being thrown if I could.
Because we have a lot of people in this country who think someone isn't qualified to be president if they don't go to certain ivy league schools.
That should probably be a disqualifier since the last President that was ever worth a damn never attended an ivy league school.
You nailed it!
What was funny to me that if she had been confirmed, would the passing of the CJ during the confirmation process, would she have been elevated to take his place, or would she have been relegated to a “swing vote” position on the court...
Can you imaging the complexity of the court with two associate justices trying to out-position each other for the primary “swing vote” seat/opinion on that bench???
Holy crapola Batman!
And with what we have now in the WH, we would be in some pretty deep sh!t with two more of the liberal (progressives) justices on deaths door...
We do not need a solid 5-4 progressive to originalist ratio in the Judicial branch...
We be in heap big trouble then kemosabe...
That is true, redefined as 'losers' . When you ran for president Republicans were in the majority of congress and governorships. You wiped out all the gains from the 1994 landslide and made the terms ‘Republican’ and ‘conservatives’ and ‘market’ and ‘capitalism’ jokes. You got most of the world mad at us, as you did american voters. You got Obama and Pelosi elected. You are an arrogant idiot just as liberals said and talk radio denied, you believed in government and big business, NOT us, when you ran two elections as an average nice guy conservative that is just like us.
You GWB, are a failed president competing with Jimmy Carter
Bush bot ping.
Hey, it’s past Sept 11, 2009, Bush is gone and we are still alive without him. How could that happen?
Yep, it was clear from day one, and Bush screwed up things royally. And we did nothing. Hey he was our screw-up.
Sort of reminds me of how Odumbo’s foreign policy with Russia is going. It’s as if Jimmy Carter’s clone Odumbo doesn’t know bears bite.
Very true and I was one of his most faithful the first three years ~ 2001-late 2003, but by 2006 I realized he was a curse that would bring a another huge defeat, 2008 on us. And at that time I didnt realize how bad the so called Bush economy/boom was.
Talk radio club, Rush, Hannity and Levin are great when dems are in power, but they are too loyal to republicans, Hannity being the absolute worst of the three, and the dumbest too.
The GOP Congress deserves much credit for destroying themselves. They went right along with GWB. Then again, for the most part, so did the base.
You GWB, are a failed president competing with Jimmy Carter
He was more of a Herbert Hoover than a Jimmy Carter, but yes, I do believe GWB will spend a lot of quality time at or near the bottom of the list of presidents.
Even his best accomplishment, two SCOTUS appointments that appear pretty good, is tarnished by the fact that he first nominated some dolt named Harriet Miers. I'm still waiting for the straight dope to come out that explains that debacle.
The real problem is that the GOP is unaccountable. We've got the DEM party like a gun to our heads, and nowhere else to turn. What we really need are two conservative parties, and no liberals. Then competition would work to our benefit. As it it, neither party is truly accountable. One sells apples. The other oranges.
that doesn’t make him the leader of the conservative movement . In 2000 I was for Forbes
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