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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (65916)	5/16/2008 11:51:35 AM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (2) of 543697

Bearcatbob, re: "I salute Bush for taking the offensive in his speech. IMO he has been too much a gentlemen during his presidency. He has allowed the Republican bums in Congress to run amuk and he has not challenged the Dems in their foolishness. While it is late in the game - it is good to see. The result is a ruined presidency and a coming Democratic land slide." If only he'd have been more aggressive in attacking Democrats and had exercised more control over his Republican allies, his "ruined presidency" and the "coming Democratic land slide" would have been avoided? It must be comforting to have views so deeply internalized that no matter what the facts reveal the underlying assumptions never change. I say that because it seems glaringly obvious that the real problem with the failed Bush presidency and the Republican plummet wasn't that they weren't aggressive and confrontational and it certainly wasn't that they failed to march in lockstep. The problem was that their aggressive, noisy and lockstep march into the future was charted based on a view of reality that was simplistic and deeply flawed. The actual truth is that they sold it well, they moved ahead full speed, they had partisan unity, they overwhelmed their wimpy Democratic opponents and it was those factors that have resulted in their undoing. Now you want them to shout louder, push harder down that dead end path and show more solidarity. At a time when we should be anticipating the elections of a Democratic President and substantial Democratic power base in the House and Senate, the last thing we need is to have the two party system fail us completely because of a Republican Party that's so ideologically crippled that it can't or won't learn. The deadliest enemies of the Republican Party are those like you who cling to discredited notions and continue in your vain attempts to breathe life into the rotting corpses of long dead policies. Think about it. Ed

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