Speaking of Conservative Bonafides...
My skepticism about the authenticity of President Bush's conservativism is well aged and settled by now but I agree with Peggy Noonan, this posturing on the immigartion debate has removed all doubt.
When she is on, nobody's better, and when she's off, she's still better than most.
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(I promise I'll learn how to make prettier links someday, but this one is just too good to delay)
PS got nice comment back from Vic today. I agree that perhaps the biggest failure of the war is the administrations inability to sell why it was, and continues to be, necessary. From early on my biggest frustration with this presidency has been it's inability to utilize the bully pulpit. That typical ham fistedness is on full display in the immigration debate.
In these days of rampant information doing the right thing is only as important as effectively explaining why it's the right thing. And in that regard this administration has rarely risen to the level the situation warrants. I don't know if it is inability, though I suspect it is more an unwillingness, but either reason explains and justifies the poll numbers they currently endure.
When she is on, nobody's better, and when she's off, she's still better than most.
rtwt http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110010148&mod=RSS_Opinion_Journal&ojrss=frontpage#top
(I promise I'll learn how to make prettier links someday, but this one is just too good to delay)
PS got nice comment back from Vic today. I agree that perhaps the biggest failure of the war is the administrations inability to sell why it was, and continues to be, necessary. From early on my biggest frustration with this presidency has been it's inability to utilize the bully pulpit. That typical ham fistedness is on full display in the immigration debate.
In these days of rampant information doing the right thing is only as important as effectively explaining why it's the right thing. And in that regard this administration has rarely risen to the level the situation warrants. I don't know if it is inability, though I suspect it is more an unwillingness, but either reason explains and justifies the poll numbers they currently endure.
Why I believe the current Bush's numbers are low-Bush is not a person who reads, his IO is among the lowest ever to occupy the office, his staff has a very narrow focus, he and his do not encourage debate, he and his believe that dissent is akin to disloyalty,he has not produced any academic or scholarly paper (s) or a book, his vocabulary is limited and thus has a difficult time expressing himself in public, he is not a social liberal or a fiscal conservative which I am, he and his have made my father, a lifelong republican, embarassed and ashamed-he voted democrat for the first time in the last election, going to war with Iraq may prove to be one of the biggest international blunders of any prez in history, he doesn't seem to understand history, he and his have treated our Constitution in a casual manner-many of his actions have and are being declared unconstitutional by the courts, he has stacked the Supreme Court with too many of the same ilk-male and conservative catholic-I would like to see a balanced court of 3 liberals, 3 conservatives and 3 moderates-another day for my reasons to like him-later, vic
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