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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (338325)	1/6/2003 9:31:34 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

How can a moron be so successful? 216.111.31.12 It is standard liberal methodology to attack the intellectual ability of conservatives. It is an article of faith among liberals that former President Ronald Reagan was a simpleton and that current President George W. Bush is a moron. The liberal intellectual assumption about conservatives is laughable when you consider that the latter half of the 20th Century saw the intellectual triumph of Friedrich Hayek (The Road to Serfdom) and his American diciples like Milton Friedman, Irving Kristol and others. In honest histories of the future Margaret Thatcher and Reagan will be shown to have reduced all other political leaders of the post-World War II era to the size of pygmies. Liberal thought (read socialism) is bankrupt. There is no coherent body of work that will pass rigorous analysis. The relentless march of collectivism and government control of citizens' lives has been arrested. (Except at your local planning commission.) Democracy, free enterprise capitalism and private property have been shown to be the model for liberation in country after country. Let's take a close look at the Republican "moron" that occupies the White House. Last summer the White House leaked his counsel's opinion that said Bush could invade Iraq without Congressional approval. Congressional Democrats took the bait. They clamored for congressional oversight. OK, said Bush. Here's the resolution. Thus the Democrats were in the position of opposing military action against terrorism or agreeing with Bush. Most decided to agree with Bush. They had no issue on the war because they voted a war resolution. Bush then had leaked a memo that he had United Nations approval from the 1991 Gulf War and he didn't need anything else. The Democrats jumped at that juicy bait and hung a hook in their mouths big enough to land a sturgeon. Bush went to the UN and told them they were with him or they would be "irrelevent." How could the UN backtrack on nine resolutions they have passed since 1991 attacking Saddam? So the UN went on record supporting Bush's effort. (Irrelevant institutions don't get hundreds of millions of dollars in appropriations from the U.S. government.) Going into the fall elections the Democrats had no issues. Bush had a congressional mandate, a UN mandate and most Democrats in Congress had supported both. Bush and conservative Republicans in general have detested Trent Lott for years. He is a total idiot, an embarassment to Republicans and an accident waiting to happen. When Lott suggested that the nation would have been better off if segregationist party nominee Strom Thurmond had been elected in 1948 instead of Harry Truman the Democrats went into full cry, determined to wrestle the quarry to the ground. That enabled Bush to make a speech slamming Lott and sending a message to his colleagues that the White House would be happy if Lott were gone. Lott tried to play hard ball and say he would resign his senate seat and Republicans would lose the one-vote majority. Bush called his bluff. What's Lott going to do if he isn't a senator? Be cheerleading coach at Ole Miss? So the Republicans have replaced the Lott liability with Sen. Bill Frist. It's hard to point at a guy who goes to Africa and does surgery on his vacation and call him a racist. Frist will present an entirely different face for the Republican Party. On issue after issue Bush has had the Democrats exactly where he wants them. He moves them around like chess pieces. They are so predictable it's laughable. Not bad for a moron. Democrats and liberal pundits can't bring themselves to believe that Bush is this smart. They can't give up the cherished idea that he is an affable fool. So they attribute his successes to the likes of Karl Rove. If a president is indeed a fool, like, oh, let's just pick Jimmy Carter at random, he cannot be saved by smart staff.. Jody Powell and Ham Jordan were the hotshots that elected an unknown former Georgia governor president in 1976, beating out established Democrats for the nomination and defeating incumbent President Gerald Ford. Did these hotshots prevent Carter's one term from being one of the most disasterous periods in our recent history? Let the Democrats and the pundits continue to call "Dubya" a moron. Most of them are incapable of coherent thought. Dubya, like Reagan, will always be underestimated. Imagine the kind of mind it takes to believe that Bush just isn't qualified to be president while treating the candidacy of Democratic Sen. John Edwards seriously. Edwards is a lawyer from North Carolina that has been in public office for four years.