Posted on 11/09/2005 2:11:49 PM PST by MAKnight
Good day Mr. President,
With all due respect, sir, what in the name of the Almighty is wrong with you?
And when I ask you this question I do believe I am speaking for the vast majority of those people who walked the precincts, sent down the checks, who cheered loudest when the Ohio results came in last year in November. I am talking about your supporters. Those of us who have and most likely will continue to stick by you until the day you finally return to Crawford three years from now.
We are the ones who have kept your poll numbers up when everyone else expected and hoped for them to go down. We are the ones who have remained your staunchest supporters even as the world mocked and insulted you. More importantly, We are the ones who got you elected, re-elected and provided you with majorities in both Houses of Congress, not just once, but twice.
We are the ones who hope and pray that you succeed.
So, again, with all due respect Mr. President, listen and take heed; we're tired. We're sick and tired.
We're sick and tired of seeing your poll numbers descending into the twenties. We're sick and tired of watching attacks by the other side and their Press allies on your Administration being met with only impotent and cowering silence. We're sick and tired of reading far better arguments on behalf of your own policies from the keyboards of anonymous posters on a myriad of websites than we hear from the mouths of your Administration's spokesmen (and this includes you). We're sick and tired of watching so many good men and women being slandered by the Democrats and their Press allies simply for being your nominees, without your Administration standing up to defend their honor. We're sick and tired of watching your administration compromising on the principles that got you elected, avoiding necessary confrontations, refusing to criticize even the harshest and most mendacious of your opponents, all in order to pander to an audience that hates you beyond the scope of reason.
And at the end of it all, what does your administration have to show for it? A torrent of anger, hate, lies and attacks from the other side and the Press that cannot have been any more than what you would have gotten if you had gone all out for a truly Reaganite Republican agenda and defended yourself and your administration, instead of listening to so-called "moderates/centrist" demands that you triangulate and turn the other cheek. Your continued dedication to cowering from your opponents in order to enamor yourself to the Left (or the so-called "Center") has only yielded continuously declining poll numbers for your administration and disastrous portents for your party's future as the majority party in Congress.
For goodness sake, why is it not yet obvious to you, Mr. President, that this dogged adherence to this "new tone" fantasy is actively harming you and your party? How much longer is your administration planning to continue imitating a punching bag? When, in the name all that is holy, are you going to start fighting back?! You are being overtly accused of deliberately sacrificing the lives of American soldiers in Iraq for personal gain by the Senate Democrat Leader and his Press allies, and yet you remain silent!
Why should I, or anybody else, continue to fight for someone who lacks the fortitude to defend his own honor and principles? Why should I continue to take the time to defend you when you refuse to defend yourself?
Mr. President, once again with all due respect, I implore you, stand up and fight. You were not elected to get along with Democrats or to make them like you. You were not elected to just get "things" done, but to get the "right things" done. You were elected because the American people trusted you more than the other guy to know what those "right things" are. Stand fast and fight back. Not just because you owe it to yourself, but, more importantly, because you owe it to your party, which made you their standard bearer and do not deserve to be dragged down along with you. Because you owe it to us, your supporters. Even more, you owe it to the soldiers fighting in Iraq, because you sent them there and yet they still gave you over 70% of their votes last year. And, finally, you owe it to the country, which looks to you for leadership, which needs to know that you did not send the best of its sons and daughters to die in vain.
Stand up and fight.
That is all.
Sincerely Yours
MartinAKnight
Excellent post - mimics almost all of my frustrations.
"I do believe I am speaking for the vast majority..."
You might someday see that GWB "Rope-A-Doped" pretty good in real time, plus purposely played the fool, ala Robert Grave's "I, Claudius."
Let none of us forget that it may have been Gore for two terms or Kerry on his first, going for seconds.
Even Tony Blair followed Bush's lead and excoriated Kyoto publicly a few weeks ago.
"Somethings wrong kid... very, very wrong. I can hear it in the voices of Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingraham... sense it on NRO & The Weekly Standard."
They found out that bad news sells FAR better than good news, and thus they're talking up their version of bad news.
About 2 years ago, Kennedy went all over the news shows and said Bush told "lie after lie after lie after lie". That he "concocted the war in Crawford for political purposes"...
There was SILENCE from our side... So, they became emboldended and said that our sons and daughters died for a lie. It spiraled out of control from there, with various lib scum piling on.
It REALLY didn't have to be this way.
You commented that the President went on vacation in August and never returned...
I am still annoyed at the lackluster campaign last year which, only by the grace of God, resulted in a second term.
This is a man that I love and respect...if I didn't care it wouldn't bother me to see him and his administration whacked like a pinatta at a third grader's birthday party.
My profound hope is that he will emerge from this difficult period with the fighting spirit our cause requires.
Excellent post
I know this, and I keep telling myself that he IS in the game . . . but it's gone on for SO long that I'm beginning to wonder if this is a valid or reasonable explanation. Maybe it's wishful thinking? At some point he has to lower the boom.
Like someone else here said, it is DIRE that he get new spokespersons. If Cheney, Frist, etal are not up to the job, then replace them and put someone in front of the microphone every day - as long as it takes - Zell Miller would be good. Or Honore. That caliber of speaker.
I am very frustrated.
You don't do much for the credibility of your POV by trivializing an issue like illegal immigration.
Great letter. Too bad that you are wasting your time. In my lifetime, the only president who has been worse in office has been Jimmy Carter. I have gotten to the point that whenever Bush appears on the TV news, I change the channel. The definition of incompetence is spelled Bush. And worst of all, he has 3 more years in office to do even more damage. How this guy ever got a Harvard MBA or qualified to fly a military jet is a true mystery.
The fact that "even Tony Blair" is against Kyoto shows just how extremist Kyoto is.
And since when has Bush taking an action normally caused the media to stop talking about it? It wasn't his majestic flair that silenced them. It was the fact that these ideas have zero public support.
I'm with you. I'm not voting for Bush in 2008.
And the evidence of this is? They could always make plenty of money ripping into the Democrats, like they normally do.
If you're going to come up with an ad hominem argument to subsitute for a real argument, at least make it plausible.
He silenced the debate.
If he's concerned with how "history will treat him," then a whole bunch of us would like him to start channeling Teddy Roosevelt!
Wow, #4 is a keeper. Thanks for taking the time to post it.
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