Posted on 10/20/2005 1:15:35 PM PDT by Pukin Dog
Maybe the better analogy is that those same Freepers would have tossed Eisenhower overboard without considering that that the alternative was MONTY!
Nah, after Sicily, the alternative was Marshall. There was no way Montgomery, who at the time commanded Br. 8th Army, was going to get the jump to Supreme Commander.
... Then again, stranger things have happened. Like a batallion commander jumping to Supreme Commander.
Win or lose, I’m standing with President Bush.
All these people bleating on about how she isn't the right
choice have lost sight of the ONE IMPORTANT THING.
SHE IS BUSH'S CHOICE, we have trusted our nation and
our future to him and he has not let us down as yet,
how can some of these folks not realize that the
democrats are laughing behind their hands at the self destructive behavour shown by this shoddy tantrum.
It's time to put up or shut up, stay in the trench or
go over the top with the rest of us.
There can be only ONE, and George Bush is THAT MAN.
Would some have preferred President Kerry? Gore???
I think NOT, so now is the time to get on board,
and quit telling the captain which way to steer.
Good post Pd.
Well, if Eisenhower had gotten the boot in Spring '44, or even say in June, Monty might have gotten it because it would have taken too long for Marshall to get into the loop. Monty's competition probably would have been Bradley at that point.
But hey, at least we're thinking about the alternatives before giving Ike the heave-ho. The rapid anti Bush-Miers crowd is willing to commit mass hara-kiri without thinking about the consequences.
So keep working to improve the side that we expect to be in favor of small government; it's absurd to simply concede the field.
For the record, we're doing OK with Arnold and he was panned as a liberal big time.
Why wouldn't the logic of your "we're at war" argument apply equally well to, for exmaple, President Bush pusing a plan to "reform" Social Security by eliminating the tax cap but not eliminating the payment cap?
I am controlling what I do. The president and the president alone is responsible for this problem. If Miers is approved and if (as I suspect likely) she doesn't answer specific questions in the hearings that make it totally clear that she is a committed constitutional conservative who is qualified for this position, then I will hold President Bush and the Republican party accountable.
Great. Then that comment was not aimed at you.
However, I think you do vastly simplify the challenges the President faces...especially when you consider there may have been many people who either did not qualify or asked not to be considered.
Of course, that is speculation on my part. I just think things always look easier from here.
Thanks for your response.
Why is this your last vanity post? Don't you enjoy making them?
No one questions your vanity. After all, it is all about you. But I digress.
Weren't you on a self imposed exile or something?
PING...If you didn't get it via private reply.
Absolutely! Right, left or in-between intellectuals are always trying to prove their superiority by finding something in things that no one else but they can see. We need that on the SC like a refinery needs to rent space to a match factory.
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