Bye George! Your lapses of memory, stuttering and inability to chew food will be sorely missed!

As I see it, this new brand or branch of conservatism uses the state to implement Christian values of charity (read government charity), compassion and forgiveness while maintaining traditional social values of family, anti-abortion, etc. Its liberalism light except its motivated by sincere Christian concern for the less fortunate as opposed to liberalism which doesn’t give a wit for the poor and seeks power and the poor is the vehicle.

Is this GW’s legacy that he pioneered this school of thought within conservatism?

Thoughts anyone?

…..if you are a conservative and you happen to be elected to an office where you can promote connservative principles and enact conservative laws

…..and you fail to act in an aggressive and forthright manner to implement your conservative agenda, because you have a soft heart and you want to be liked by everyone,

several things will happen:

….the left will keep hating you no matter what because you do not share their wretched whacko pathology

….the right will start hating you because you became weak and rudderless and abandoned many of your principles

….most people of all political stripes will view you as a failure.

And you know what?

it’s because you are a failure.

George Bush launched a couple wars and killed some islamists. Good for him. Every other aspect of his presidency is an unmitigated disaster – from immigration to the economy.

Even Wendy is at a loss to come up with a substantive list of his conservative accomplishmants.

All I can say is – If this is the best the right can do, we are all in big trouble.

…..if you are a conservative and you happen to be elected to an office where you can promote connservative principles and enact conservative laws

…..and you fail to act in an aggressive and forthright manner to implement your conservative agenda, because you have a soft heart and you want to be liked by everyone,

several things will happen:

….the left will keep hating you no matter what because you do not share their wretched whacko pathology

….the right will start hating you because you became weak and rudderless and abandoned many of your principles

….most people of all political stripes will view you as a failure.

And you know what?

it’s because you are a failure.

George Bush launched a couple wars and killed some islaimsts. Good for him. Every other aspect of his presidency is an unmitigated disaster – from immigration to the economy.

Even Wendy is at a loss to come up with a substantive list of his conservative accomplishmants.

All I can say is – If this is the best the right can do, we are all in big trouble.

On the other hand, with the war on terror, he was a true leader. He ran the war as he thought best. He did not react to every poll and when things got messy he stuck to his guns (contrast with Clinton who could get out of Somalia fast enough after a few causalities). A true leader makes the hard decisions in the face to tough opposition, whether it comes from the enemy or your own congress.

BO scares me. His conciliatory approach may sound good to the great unwashed here in North America but the world is hard and cruel and is run by terrible people who eat do-good guys like BO all the time. A time will come when we look back and wish we had GW Bush back in the White House.